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After the two-day market break on the weekend, a new week, international hot money once again launched a larger impact on the pound.

In the face of the turbulent sterling sell-off in the foreign exchange market, the British government just barely supported for two days on Tuesday and Tuesday, but had no choice but to give up guarding the exchange rate of the pound and was forced to declare the devaluation of the pound.

While giving up guarding the exchange rate, the British government officially announced its withdrawal from the European monetary system.

Anyone who understands the international financial landscape a little bit understands that the reason why the United Kingdom, or Europe as a whole, will suffer such a disaster is, in the final analysis, the United States on the other side of the Atlantic in order to maintain the global hegemony of the US dollar.

As the British pound withdrew from the European monetary system, the European Community’s attempt to use this system to counter the US dollar was officially broken.

The European media have recently criticized Soros’s quantum fund and other international hot money, and Soros has become “notorious”, but for any discerning person, everyone actually knows that it is really promoting this matter. It is actually the US government.

Soros is just a'early bird', a'scapegoat'.

Of course, whether it's a bird or a scapegoat, Soros is not a loss.

After the British pound renounced resistance, the currencies of European countries such as the Spanish Pesetas and the French Franc were successively attacked to varying degrees, and the European monetary system basically survived.

Throughout the confrontation process, the British government has invested a total of 27 billion pounds to stabilize the exchange rate, and eventually lost.But at the same time, it was only Soros, who made a profit of 1 billion US dollars in this attack on the European currency, and the total profit of other international hot money is even more difficult to estimate.

Soros became famous in the first battle, and he was very popular on Wall Street for a while.

At the same time, some media soon noticed Cersei Capital, which had been silent during the attack on the European monetary system.

Since the stock market crash in 1987, the subsequent Japanese stock market bubble, the collapse of the US bond market, and so on, all have Cersei Capital active.However, this excellent arbitrage opportunity, Cersei Capital turned out to be silent, which is obviously somewhat abnormal.

In the media's attention, an insider broke out soon.

The Wall Street Journal published a special feature article on September 26. The title is also quite eye-catching: "Cersei Capital Magic No More".

The article takes the European currency crisis that has just settled as an entry point, and first touted the brilliant performance of quantum funds in this crisis.Then the words turned and began to expose the "inside story".

The article describes that just a week ago, Cersei Capital's Cersei Fund Management Company, three top fund managers suddenly left, and took away a hedge fund team of more than ten people.This group of people rejected the solicitation of other Wall Street peers, quickly established a new hedge fund, and began to raise funds externally.

As the most confidential company on Wall Street, Cersei Capital has disclosed little information.

This time, the reporter of The Wall Street Journal perceptively perceived something. After some twists and turns, he finally got the opportunity to interview three fund managers who left Cersei Capital.

The reason for the departure of the three managers is precisely the European currency crisis that has just passed.

It turned out that, one year ago, one of the three managers had predicted that a European currency crisis might occur, and returned to the highest level of Cersei Capital, hoping to be deployed in advance.

The highest level of Cersei Capital is naturally the Westeros.

However, unlike in the past, this time, the Westeros made a misjudgment that the pound that has been strong for hundreds of years cannot depreciate, and it is impossible to shake the strength of one or several hedge funds. The entire European Community.Therefore, it is totally whimsical to attack European currencies.

In the following year, the signs of imbalance within the European monetary system became more and more obvious, especially after other hedge funds on Wall Street began to be deployed, the three fund managers submitted reports to the Westeros more than once. This layout.

The results were rejected.

In the end, Cersei Capital could only watch Wall Street Capital, such as Quantum Fund, making a lot of money in the turmoil of the European currency system, but could not do anything.

Out of disappointment with the Westeros' stubbornness, the three managers finally decided to leave their jobs.

What a sad story.

The arrogance of the rapidly rising Wall Street sky is declining rapidly. Is there anything more sighing than this kind of thing?

After the "Wall Street Journal" article was published, countless media have called Cersei Capital and even a core of the Westeros system, and the responses were all coldly "no comment."

This further proves that Cersei Capital's refusal to make this decision-making mistake.

Although Simon Westero topped the Forbes 400 list of American riches with a $65 billion net worth at the beginning of the month, such a low-level error may mean that the Westero system is losing its previous years of dedication Aggressive.

Of course, it is not without media questioning.

Unlike hedge funds such as Quantum Fund, Cersei Capital is behind the entire Westeros system. Within this business empire, the rapidly expanding Melisandre Corporation and Nokia Corporation are based in Europe.Many companies in the Westeros system also have substantial operations in Europe.

If Cersei Capital is attacking European currencies with quantum funds this time, then Europe may not be able to take the pure hedge fund tycoons such as Soros, but it is too easy to watch the Westeros system.

Therefore, the Westeros did not agree to participate in this attack on the European currency, it may not be a decision mistake.

However, this argument was quickly refuted.

Three years ago, Cersei Capital did not give up its operations in the Japanese market, and Simon Westero was almost'rejected' by the Japanese government.But now, the cooperation between the Westeros system and Japanese companies has not been affected.

Since Japan is so, so should Europe.

If we can see opportunities in advance, Simon Westero has no reason to give up this excellent arbitrage opportunity.

You know, if operated properly, Cersei Fund Management can easily double the size of the fund this time, and billions of dollars of profits are in front of you. It is impossible for someone to refuse this temptation.

After much discussion, most of the media still prefer this to be a major mistake by the Westeros.

Many newspaper and magazine readers also prefer to see stories of enviable and jealous'miracles' suddenly no longer magical, sad and happy.

For the Westeros system, it is enough to convey to the outside world that Cersei Capital has not participated in this currency speculation.As for the media's'fantasy' towards the decline of Cersei Capital and the entire Westero system, it can also greatly alleviate the sentiments of the parties towards the Westero system and Simon's individual.

The $65 billion net worth announced by Forbes magazine in early September, although it envied and admired many people, also attracted many arguments that the expansion of the Westeros system should be limited.

There are only three leaving fund managers. The reason why the other party left is that Cersei Capital missed the European currency speculation. However, of course, it was not because of the disappointment of the Simons and the couple.

The three of them were very clear about why the Simons would do this, and also understood that they would have such an opportunity in the future. Cersei Capital could still only miss it out of the interest of the entire Westeros system. Therefore, after the two parties talked openly and in detail, three The person finally chose to resign in order to get rid of this bondage.

Despite leaving, the relationship between the three managers and Cersei Capital is still good, and they also actively cooperated in a "bitter play" in the media.

In order to avoid being discerned, Cersei Capital did not invest in the new fund established by the three people, but also quickly attracted more than 500 million US dollars of capital for the other party through its own network.

Of course, these inside stories must be strictly confidential.

For Daenerys Entertainment, "Desperate Housewives" after the 7.36 million viewers in the first week, due to good reputation and high topicality, the ratings data of the second episode climbed again, with an average viewership of 8.39 million, which is enough An increase of 1 million viewers.The ratings of the core audience group aged 18 to 49 also climbed to 4.6.

The USA team predicts that before the winter break, with the further expansion of the basic audience of the TV network and the continued popularity of "Desperate Housewives", the average audience of this episode is expected to exceed the 10 million mark.

For a cable TV network, the average rating of a TV program can reach 5 million, and it has already reached the top of the list, breaking through 10 million, which can be said to be a viewing miracle.

In the original space and time, the AMC TV network many years later, with the help of a "The Walking Dead" with a ratings of about 10 million people, quickly rose.

The current cable TV industry is very different from that of more than a decade later, but the USA TV network at this time has many similarities with the later AMC TV network.The USA TV network is facing the strong pressure of the traditional public TV network. AMC needs to deal with many competitors in the same industry. Both parties can be said to have killed a blood in the cracks of the industry with one episode.

Of course, the difference is that with the rise of streaming media in the cable TV industry more than a decade later, the scale of the industry has reached the ceiling, and it is impossible to go further.

The cable TV industry in the early 1990s is still booming.

Although it is a dedicated female TV network, as long as it is carefully and reasonably operated, the USA TV network still has a lot of room for development.

After the success of Desperate Housewives, the USA team has begun to consider creating more refined sub-channels. The plan includes specializing in young women under the age of 18, or urban elite white-collar workers with strong consumption power.

Considering that the US TV network still owns half of the shares of Paramount Communications, Simon has not agreed to the request of the US senior management to start further layout.

On the original timeline, Viacom Group will launch the acquisition of Paramount Communications next year.

Only this time, after the internal evaluation of Daenerys Entertainment, the current Viacom Group does not have enough strength to complete the acquisition of Paramount Communications.

The key is still Blockbuster.

Viacom, formerly Space Time, is one of Blockbuster's important shareholders. As a video chain company, Blockbuster, like many retail companies, has billions of dollars of huge cash flow ready to be used at any time.Therefore, in order to make up for the shortage of funds for the acquisition of Paramount Communications, Redstone first completely annexed Blockbuster at a nearly double premium of US$8 billion in the form of share swaps and mergers and acquisitions, and then, fully 'S cash support, using cash plus stocks, successfully won Paramount Communications.

However, in the current BesTV, Daenerys Entertainment is the largest shareholder holding 35% of the shares, and Viacom does not own the company.

Not only that, Blockbuster's current market value has reached $6.3 billion. Even though Viacom still wants to buy, Daenerys Entertainment and other shareholders have agreed to buy, lacking the advantages of its own shareholders, Blockbuster's stock price is obvious. On the high side, not to mention doubling the premium, even if the premium is only 50%, Viacom cannot afford it.

Because of this, Redstone’s control of Viacom will be shaken after the share swap.

The economic downturn has not passed. In recent years, M&A financing has been very difficult. Without the huge cash support of BesTV, Viacom wants to buy Paramount and can only exchange shares.Paramount Communications is larger than Viacom, and can't get actual benefits. Paramount shareholders simply cannot give up control and sell the company only to obtain another unpredictable stock.

However, although Paramount Communications is unlikely to be acquired by Viacom, the coveted capital of this company is not much.

Simon can be sure that in the next few years, Paramount Communications will change hands.

And the buyer is probably still overseas capital.

The U.S. television industry’s restrictions on overseas capital have not been lifted. Once so, Daenerys Entertainment can naturally acquire the entire equity of the U.S. television network after the acquisition of Paramount Communications.

Of course, these are words.

September is the time for the four annual fashion weeks.

This year's Milan Fashion Week is from September 21 to September 29 and lasts for nine days.

The summer stall is still in the past, and the autumn stall also opened smoothly. Just in time for Fashion Week, Simon and Janet flew to Europe together. On the one hand, they are on vacation. On the other hand, there are also many things that need to be handled by Simon.

Gucci's catwalk is scheduled for September 23.

The couple first flew to Helsinki, Finland.

The trend of GSM digital communication has been fully opened, and countries around the world have begun to deploy the second generation of digital communication technology.Nokia not only took the lead in the development of GSM technology, but also the first company to launch GSM format digital mobile phones among the major European manufacturers. Taking advantage of this industry, Nokia has developed very rapidly in the past year.

In order to win over countries in Eastern Europe and Northern Europe, countries such as Britain, France, Germany and Italy have also opened up markets to these countries, which at the same time laid the foundation for Nokia's rapid expansion in Europe.