Chapter 1,173 The last stop, the final stage! (Part 1)
You must have heard the name of this city,
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 much inferior.
From its early discovery in 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.
Ranked No. 1 in the world!
Economics, 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", in the economic system of the entire society, the most well-known and the highest one...
That’s it – ‘financial transaction’!
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 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 big consortiums left here and moved to midtown Manhattan, where transportation is convenient and the view is wide.
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 declined?
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 makes countless people look up to them, and makes countless people work hard to dream of becoming legends like Salomon Brothers, Morgan, and Weinberg.
Seize the opportunity, get rich overnight, and create the latest financial myth of this era.
From a penniless ordinary person to a wealthy 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, where the skyscrapers are most densely populated on the planet, in this scene that you have definitely seen from various movies and photos,
One building stands out even here.
Ordinary people will not be able to see the inner scene in their entire lives. A famous behemoth that is truly at the top of the social economy.
——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.
It is 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 one among the dozen subsidiaries, everyone was busy, and it was as noisy as if there was an urgent need.
The atmosphere is tense and tense!
In the office area where everyone is busy, a man in a suit with a high status is listening to the report surrounded by several people.
Then after confirming something, he shouted instructions and trotted towards the upper level!
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, traders make dozens of phone calls and enter hundreds of trading instructions on the keyboard...
Representing the so-called elite class, constantly dealing with those endless assets and countless corporate financing,
Those ‘Wall Street’ scenes,
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 touch in their lifetime,
The man in the suit finally pushed open the door of a large office with a bang, and went straight to the point and reported loudly and hurriedly:
"Sir! According to the latest report, Golden Kite's stock price has fallen 14% beyond our expectations, falling to 69.43 US dollars, and it is still falling!"
And in the top room, sitting behind a large desk, an emergency video conference was being held with Citibank's top stock-holding directors.
The CEO of Huaqi Bank, Lancelot Bowen, frowned heavily after hearing his report.
"Please rest assured, everyone, I will handle this matter properly."
Use as calm a tone as possible to assure the several shareholders in the video, and then end the call.
Lancelot asked urgently with a look of concentration on his face:
"What's going on! Didn't I tell you to make repairs? Why didn't you stop the fall?"
Facing 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 suppress her panic and answered truthfully:
"We have indeed taken action, but there is something abnormal. Factors that we don't know about continue to ferment!"
Giving such an answer that seemed like shirking responsibility, I thought my career had come to an end.
But unexpectedly, there was no blame for his answer. The cold and solemn man behind the big desk just remained silent and then asked in a more anxious voice: