Gotham, the Big Apple, the capital of the world, financial center, trade center, entertainment and cultural center, the largest city in North America!
——New York.
Located on the Atlantic coast of the southeast coast of New York State, it has five regions, fifty-nine communities, and an area of more than 1,200 square kilometers.
Even compared to the vast London, it is not inferior.
From being discovered as early as the colonial period, through the Declaration of Independence, through the opportunities of war, and as the country to which it belongs rises as a hegemon in the world,
New York has become the most apex city in the world without exaggeration.
The GDP exceeds one trillion US dollars,
Ranked No. 1 in the world!
Economy, politics, finance, media, education, entertainment...even the fashion industry, countless factors have made it the largest metropolitan area in the world.
Let countless people come here with dreams in mind, and come to this pinnacle full of opportunities and dangers.
Seek the countless prosperity that belongs here.
And among all the 'prosperities', the most well-known and the highest one...
That’s it – ‘financial transactions’.
Just as everyone who knows America knows New York, everyone who knows New York knows a name,
That is equivalent to the nerve center of international finance, a place even more famous for risks than the casinos in Las Vegas.
Wall Street.
Located in the southern part of Manhattan, one of the five major boroughs of New York, it stretches from Broadway to the East River, with a total length of only one-third of a mile and a width of only 11 meters.
But it is such a narrow and short street that once concentrated the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, trust companies, and the New York Futures Exchange.
As well as the general management offices of large companies such as banks, insurance, railways, and shipping established by various large consortiums,
It became Wall Street, which is famous all over the world.
But if you go there now, you can only see a business district, streets full of tourists, a few old skyscrapers and many outdoor teahouses or cafes.
There are no famous names such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan written on the roadside windows. Instead, there are only advertisements for fitness clubs.
Because except for a few exchanges that are still there today,
As early as twenty years ago, the industries of those large consortiums left here and moved to midtown Manhattan with convenient transportation and wide views.
After all, streets that are narrow, crowded, and difficult to identify like spider webs do not really meet the needs of financial institutions to expand their business.
So has Wall Street collapsed?
not at all.
It has just broken away from the physical Wall Street and has become composed of countless financial institutions and monopoly capital everywhere.
An invisible 'Wall Street' that symbolizes North American financial markets.
In the Rockefeller Center offices, people still read the Wall Street Journal,
During a congressional hearing, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve was still concerned about the "attitude of Wall Street." On the other side of the ocean, the highest dream of entrepreneurs is still to "raise money on Wall Street."
'On Wall Street, even the most junior financial professionals can earn an annual salary of more than $60,000...'
Investment, trust, exchange, discount, mortgage, securities trading including listed company stocks, as well as international trade and non-trade settlement, gold and silver buying and selling, output, import,
Relying on the highest level of economic means to trade the greatest wealth in the world,
This is the 'Wall Street',
This is the world of finance!
It has caused countless people to look up to them and dream of becoming legends like Salomon Brothers, Morgan and Weinberg, creating the latest financial myth of this era.
From a penniless ordinary person to a huge wealth that can rival the country...
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The morning sun rises, and when the planet turns across the twilight line, the sunlight once again shines from the Atlantic Ocean, illuminating all the cities on the entire east coast of the North American continent.
New York-Midtown Manhattan,
High-rise buildings, high-rise buildings, high-rise buildings and high-rise buildings!
The most prosperous and central area in New York, the place with the highest density of skyscrapers in the world, in this scene that you have definitely seen from various movies and photos,
A building that is somewhat conspicuous even here.
I don’t know how many people who were passing by it were picking up their mobile phones to take pictures on the street, but most of them still looked at it with a longing and distant look.
Because this building standing here is a behemoth that is truly at the top of the social economy.
It’s the top giants that ordinary people like them can’t see the inside of when they look up to them!
——Huaqi Bank!
It coordinates more than a dozen subsidiaries under its name and integrates commercial banking, investment banking, insurance, mutual funds, stock and securities trading and many other financial services businesses.
To become the all-round financial services group with the largest assets, the most profits, the highest global chain linkage, and the most complete business categories in the world today.
With total assets exceeding two trillion US dollars, this is the scale of wealth controlled by the world's financial giants!
And inside this building at this moment,
On the floor of the securities trading company among more than a dozen subsidiaries,
In an office area where everyone is busy and the atmosphere is tense, a man in a suit with a high status is listening to a report surrounded by several people.
Then after confirming something, he shouted instructions and hurried towards the upper level quickly!
And as he got on the elevator with an anxious expression, the scenes passed by layer by layer.
Bankers work 14 hours a day, analysts read hundreds of pages of research reports every day, and traders make dozens of phone calls and enter hundreds of trading instructions every day...
Representing the so-called elite class, they are constantly dealing with those endless assets and countless corporate financing,
This is what 'Wall Street' looks like,
It didn't disappear, it just changed places.
And beyond these scenes, all the way up to the top of the building that ordinary people cannot reach in their lifetime,
The man in the suit quickly opened the door of a large office and reported straight to the point:
"Sir! According to the latest report, Golden Kite's share price has fallen 14% below our expectations, and it is still falling!"
And in the highest room, sitting behind a large desk, he was having an emergency video conference with the higher-up stock-holding directors who actually control Huaqi Bank.
After hearing his report, President of Huaqi Bank, Lancelot Bowen, his already solemn expression darkened even more.
"Please rest assured, everyone, I will handle this matter properly."
He took a deep breath, assured the shareholders in the video as calmly as possible, and ended the call.
Lancelot looked at his secretary solemnly and asked:
"What's going on! Didn't I tell you to make repairs? Why didn't you stop the fall?"
Faced with the questioning from the person in charge of the group, as an assistant to the president, I have seen big storms all year round, but I was really panicked by this situation.
The secretary could only answer truthfully:
"We have indeed taken action, but there is something abnormal. Factors we don't know about continue to ferment!"
To make such a baseless answer, I thought my career had come to an end.
But unexpectedly,
He saw that in response to his answer, the stern man behind the big desk was silent for a while as if he understood something.