Chapter 217: Tempting Wall Street
Winter in New York is colder than in Shanghai, and no one wants to go out.
Four Seasons Hotel.
Shen Hui summoned the accompanying managers and held a small meeting in the small reception room of the presidential suite.
There were two managers accompanying him, Chen Lijun and Yang Shan, plus Zhang Jing, the head of the US Office.
Zhang Jing reported on the work carried out after the establishment of the Office in the United States, and said: "Boss, when I visited my colleagues on Wall Street, I found that they were very unfriendly to Xinghai, which made it very difficult for us to carry out our work. β
Shen Hui asked, "Do you have any good opinions?"
Zhang Jing said: "I think you should consider immigrating to the United States, the United States is a paradise of capital, you can only integrate into Wall Street if you join in, I believe that with the wisdom of the boss, you will be able to lead Xinghai to become a great enterprise like Goldman Sachs." β
Shen Hui frowned when he heard this, and Chen Lijun and Yang Shan also exchanged a look.
"Forget about immigration. β
Shen Hui waved his hand, not wanting to talk about this topic, and said, "How is the information you have gathered?"
Zhang Jing said: "According to the current news, Goldman Sachs Investment Department, Bridgewater, AQR, Citadel and other fund companies have participated in the crude oil contract trading in March, and it is difficult to find out the specific direction of the transaction. β
Shen Hui nodded, he didn't expect her to inquire about this kind of trade secret, otherwise the remuneration he paid would not be half a million US dollars per year, and said, "Give me an appointment with the senior executives of these families, and I will invite them to dinner." β
"Good boss!"
Zhang Jing readily agreed, the current identity is still a bit useful.
Although the scale of Xinghai is not as large as that of hundreds of billions of giants, the scale of tens of billions is not small even in the United States.
At least when visiting the fund houses on Wall Street, even if they are not very friendly, they will not turn her away.
In the evening, Shen Hui invited the founder of a Wall Street hedge fund to dinner.
Unlike the first time I came to New York, Xinghai was just starting out at that time, and although its performance was quite good, it was not in the eyes of Wall Street bigwigs. Now it's different, Xinghai made two shots, making a lot of money in the gold surge at the end of July and the crude oil surge in September, and he got out smoothly early, which was not taken seriously by the bigwigs on Wall Street.
Therefore, Shen Hui met the real bigwigs of Wall Street.
The wolves of Wall Street also wanted to meet this cunning oriental fox to see if he had nine tails, as cunning as the fox in oriental myths and legends, and dared to snatch meat from the mouths of the wolves on Wall Street.
There was nothing to talk about at the dinner table, all kinds of temptations and malice.
For example, when having dinner with Carl Icahn, known as the wolf king of Wall Street, Carl was full of malice: "Chinese fund companies have always been timid, you used to be lucky, but this time I am afraid that your luck will come to an end, shorting crude oil will make you lose your bottoms." β
Shen Hui responded with a smile on his face: "Before I lose my underwear, I will definitely let you take it with you, I heard that you are long the crude oil contract in March, congratulations, you will definitely lose your underwear before me." β
"Crude oil will definitely go up. β
Carl smiled like a fox, and it was impossible to see what he was thinking.
Whoever said that Americans are all straight, at least none of these Wall Street wolves are straight.
Even if the performance is straightforward, it is with some kind of purpose.
Shen Hui also couldn't see the other party's true thoughts, but his intuition told him that Karl was insincere.
After having lunch with Goldman Sachs' vice president Dimon and chatting about cooperation, Shen Hui finally tested: "I heard that Goldman Sachs is also long crude oil, if that's the case, I think we should have better opportunities for cooperation." β
Dimon smiled: "Dear Shen, where did you hear the news?"
Shen Hui was also laughing: "I heard what others said, you know, Xinghai has an office in New York. β
Dimon nodded: "If Xinghai wants to do more crude oil, we can indeed cooperate." β
Shen Hui saw the sincerity, but what he intuitively felt was full of malice.
Sending Dimon away, back to the hotel is still pondering.
Where does malice come from?
There is no other answer than interest.
Judging from the results of the test, Wall Street's long crude oil is only a faΓ§ade.
So what is the real result?
Shen Hui had a point in his heart, and continued to entertain the next day, and invited some Chinese-dominated hedge fund heads, but the result was not very good, these Chinese knew better than those Yankees to hide, and it was difficult to judge their thoughts.
Since it is intuition, it can only let Shen Hui judge whether the other party is telling the truth or a lie.
But when it comes to him, it's a bit blind.
But it's not that it's not without gains.
Through the confirmation of intuition, Shen Hui faintly perceived the intentions of Wall Street Capital.
Although it is not 100% sure, it is 60% sure.
After a few days in New York, Shen Hui drove to the small town of Greenwich, Connecticut.
Greenwich Town, Connecticut is a world-famous hedge fund town, due to the influence of time, location, people and a variety of factors, thanks to the influence of government preferential tax policies, since the beginning of this century, the town has attracted a large number of brokers, hedge fund supporting personnel, etc., after decades of development, Greenwich large and small hedge funds can have more than 300, the industry old bridge water fund control assets are as high as 150 billion US dollars.
After visiting the executives of Bridgewater and several large hedge funds, Shen Hui basically had a number.
After finishing his business, Shen Hui flew to Nevada and went to Las Vegas.
Nevada is a landlocked state, most of which is covered by desert and sandstone, there is nothing to visit here, only Las Vegas, a green state built on the desert, is known as one of the world's four major gambling cities, is a world-renowned resort city centered on tourism, shopping and vacation in the gambling industry, and has the reputation of "the world's entertainment capital" and "marriage capital".
Shen Hui and his entourage lived in Bellagio, and after settling down, they went downstairs to see Bellagio's most famous musical fountain.
Bellagi is located in the busiest part of the Las Vegas Strip, with a nearly nine-acre lake in front of the hotel, which is filled with thousands of sprinklers and regularly performs every half hour during the day and every fifteen minutes after dark.
The climate of Las Vegas is better than New York, it is not cold in winter, it is not cold in Shanghai, but there are a lot of tourists, with the music of the sound system around the lake, the water column in the lake rises in the air, it can be sprayed to a height of fifty or sixty meters, and jumps back and forth, when it is low, it is like sitting on a lotus, many tourists stop at the lake, and from time to time they scream, that is called an excitement.
After watching the Musical Fountain, go for dinner, and then go and experience the gambling industry in Las Vegas.
Chen Lijun and Yang Shan are not interested in gambling and do not want to go.
Shen Hui said: "If you come, you will go and have a look, and by the way, you will win some money for painting and cosmetics." β
Chen Lijun hurriedly said: "Gambling has always been ten bets and nine losses, let's not go." β
Shen Hui said: "With me, what are you worried about." β
The two were helpless, feeling that the boss was too confident, and really thought that gambling was stock futures!
Being able to win in the financial markets does not mean that you can win in the casino.
But the boss insisted on going, so he could only follow to see the excitement.
Shen Hui exchanged 80,000 US dollars in chips, and gave Chen Lijun, Yang Shan and the five security guards 10,000 yuan each, and said: "Follow me to bet for a while, if you lose, count it as mine, and pay me 10,000 yuan if you win." β
Everyone nodded and said yes, Chen Lijun and Yang Shan looked helpless.
The security guards were excited, and there were not many opportunities to gamble with the boss.
There are many dazzling gambling items in Bellagio, at least hundreds of gambling tables, basically all the chess and card gambling games that can be thought of here, as well as various coin-operated gambling machines, which opened the eyes of Shen Hui and his subordinates.
Shen Hui was walking around, and a woman dressed in Shen Yan came up: "Sir, do you need a woman?"
Shen Hui took a look at it and said with a smile: "The powder on your face is too thick, and it will affect my appetite when I look at it." β
βfucking idiotγ β
The woman cursed, twisted the bucket and walked away, looking for the next target.
Shen Hui frowned, a little affected by his mood.
Chen Lijun and Yang Shan smiled, but the security guards didn't dare to look at the boss's jokes, and hurriedly looked around.
After turning around for a while, Shen Hui was surprised to find that there were a lot of yellow skins like him here, and at least seven of the ten yellow skinned people were compatriots, and he couldn't help but feel that there were so many rich people in China, and it was estimated that they had contributed a lot to the city.
Looked at the slot machine and didn't play.
This game is like shaking the dice and sitting in the bank, intuition is useless.
Moving on, turn to a table where a bunch of people are playing blackjack. Five or six gamblers sat at the table, sometimes shouting happily, sometimes sighing in frustration, releasing all the joys, sorrows, and sorrows of human nature.
Shen Hui looked at it for a while, and after figuring out the rules, he went to the table with a few handfuls.
It didn't feel interesting to win a few thousand dollars, so let Yang Shan go up.
Yang Shan was a little twisted, and went to the table hard, and under Shen Hui's guidance, she lost one and won two, lost big and won small, and soon won thousands, and she was a little excited, and when she wanted to chase after the victory, she was stopped by Shen Hui, which was a little regretful.
"Let's go!"
Shen Hui greeted and continued to wander around.
After walking a little farther, he said: "I just said that I lost nine out of ten bets on gambling, but now I forgot about it?"
Yang Shan was embarrassed and said embarrassedly: "I won't come again in the future." β
Shen Hui said with a smile: "As long as you remember that pies will not fall from the sky, although those who come here to gamble will win money, but it will definitely not be the majority, otherwise the casino here would have gone bankrupt long ago, how can there be free drinks for people to drink." β
Yang Shan nodded, and began to reflect in her heart on why she was attracted just now.
After walking a few steps, I came to another table.
This time, Shen Hui let Chen Lijun go, losing three in front and winning one, winning one and losing three in the back, and also won a few thousand dollars to stop, and continued to transfer the battlefield, after winning thousands to ten thousand dollars per person, he went to play dice again.
This is faster, and the more people there are, the hotter the atmosphere.
Shen Hui called Yang Shan, Chen Lijun and Wu Jie to go together, and after a while, they each won between 20,000 and 50,000 yuan.
Deliberately pressed to lose, Shen Hui continued to transfer the battlefield after the dealer had just smiled.
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