Chapter 836: Amazon IPO

As he spoke, the twins walked in one after the other, one holding a stack of newspapers on the dining table outside, while the other handed the cordless phone to Eric: "Master, Mr. Hansen's phone." Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Ignoring Aniston's strange expression when he heard the twins call him, Eric gestured to the omelette in the pan to give up his place to Natasha, put the microphone to his ear, and walked out of the kitchen.

Chris called Eric early in the morning, and it turned out that just yesterday, November 20, after wreaking havoc in Southeast Asian countries, international travel funds finally pointed the finger at South Korea, the richest piece of fat in Southeast Asia except Japan.

Several major foreign exchange markets only sold orders on the first day, resulting in a 3.1% depreciation of the won.

South Korea's local time is 17 hours earlier than the West Coast of the United States, and although Los Angeles is now more than 8 o'clock in the morning on the 21st, South Korea is already 1 o'clock in the morning on the 22nd. When Chris called Eric, the second day of South Korea's attack on international travel funds had passed, and although the Bank of Korea began to organize a counterattack, the won exchange rate still fell by 6.5% in two days.

After the delivery of short foreign exchange contracts against the Thai baht and the Indonesian rupiah, Eric did not let Chris pay attention to some other currency targets in Southeast Asia, and put all the $300 million remaining in Southeast Asia on the Korean won.

Although the outbreak of the economic crisis in Southeast Asia has raised the vigilance of Asian countries, the layout of a few months, the principal of 300 million US dollars, the cumulative establishment of short positions in South Korean won is still more than 1.1 billion US dollars. It can be said that this is also the last piece of fat that fireflies can get in this Southeast Asian economic crisis.

After chatting with Chris for a while, Eric returned to the dining room, sat down at the table, and flipped through several newspapers for news related to the won.

In two days, the exchange rate of the South Korean won against the dollar fell from the initial 957:1 to 1019:1.

Eric remembers that the exchange rate of the South Korean won against the US dollar was below 1,700:1 at its lowest point, and the depreciation rate was more than 70%, so it seems that this is just the beginning.

If we can accurately grasp the lowest point of the depreciation of the Korean won to complete the delivery of the short contract in hand, the short contract worth 1.1 billion US dollars, excluding the principal, won loan interest and other expenses, Firefly can still obtain a profit of 400 million US dollars. Of course, this can only be regarded as the best prediction, in the face of the rapidly changing foreign exchange market, it is difficult to maximize the benefits in actual operation, and finally be able to double the $300 million Eric is very satisfied.

Feeling that breakfast was being placed in front of him, Eric closed a newspaper in his hand, intending to eat breakfast first, and looked up to see Aniston sitting on the other side, looking curiously at Natasha who had just walked away from him.

Eric smiled and asked, "What's wrong?"

Aniston quickly withdrew his eyes, shook his head, and said, "No, it's nothing." ”

Drew, who was sitting across from Aniston, looked at the twins sitting on the other side of the table together and said with a smile, "They are also Eric's women." ”

Aniston felt the provocation in the girl's tone, immediately raised her eyebrows, and countered: "Much prettier than you." ”

Eric glanced at the two women warringly, "Now, what did I just say. ”

"I didn't want to fight, I wanted to introduce Janine to Natasha and ...... What about Natasha," the girl immediately argued.

The chick also immediately said: "I plan not to say a word to you today, this is the last sentence." ”

Eric also remembered that Aniston didn't know the twins at this time, and looked at the two identical girls opposite, and was about to introduce the chick to them, when he noticed that the twins had an extra silver necklace around their necks, and the two necklace pendants were one with the letter 'n' and the other with the subtitle 'e'.

After a few glances, Eric asked, "The necklace is beautiful, and the two pendants should be the initials of your name, right?"

Natasha, who was wearing a subtitle 'n' necklace, nodded and said, "Yes, master, this is a birthday present from Ms. Pakula, and she said it would make it easier to distinguish between us sisters." ”

"Oh, I didn't notice it, sorry, remind me for my next birthday, and give you a gift. But it looks really better now, you're a sister, Natasha, then she's a sister, Eve...... Hmm, Eve Goennia?"

"Master, just call me Eve," said the girl with the subtitle 'e', her accent and tone of voice were obviously a little different from her sister's, and Eric realized that it was probably her sister who spoke most of the time before, so he couldn't tell the two girls by her accent.

Smiling and nodding, Eric pointed at Aniston and said, "This is Janie, you must know each other, Jane, this is Natasha and Eve." ”

Aniston has been secretly following things around Eric for the past few years, and naturally knows that the twins who often appear next to Drew. However, although she didn't deal with the girl, Aniston greeted the twins very politely, but the curiosity in her eyes was still there.

Today is November 21st, and after breakfast, Eric and the two girls discussed how to celebrate Thanksgiving together in the next few days, and then rushed to work in Preavista.

With its fantastic imagination and heartwarming themes, "Monster Power Company" received almost unanimous praise from film critics after its release.

Although there is no shortage of media sour statements that "Monster Power" has completely lost the style of Disney animation and is just another Pixar work, this does not stop the fact that "Monster Power" grossed $62.57 million in the first three days of the opening weekend.

The box office data came out, which not only shattered the illusions in many people's hearts, but also made the entire firefly rejoice. Because the success of "Monster Electric Company" indicates that Firefly Group will have two studios that can produce excellent 3D animated films, or, if you count nearly half of the equity of Blue Sky Studios, this number should be two and a half.

In the next few years, Firefly will be making 3D animated films at an average rate of one per year, which is definitely something that any Hollywood studio can only dream of.

Perhaps stimulated by the success of "Monster Electric Company", a few days later, Paramount Pictures CEO Shirley Lansing also said in an interview that Paramount Animation will also begin to test the waters of 3D animation production.

The Hollywood animated film market is far from saturated, and Eric is not worried about the threat from Paramount, not to mention whether Paramount Animation can really complete the 3D transformation under the obstruction of a group of hand-drawn animators who want to maintain their position in the industry. Even if they succeed, Viacom is destined to be incomparable to the Firefly Group in the development of derivative interest chains such as peripheral products and theme parks.

In the following days, accompanied Drew and Aniston for Thanksgiving, Eric rushed to New York on the day of the fourth Victoria's Secret show on the 27th.

He didn't come specifically for the Victoria's Secret show, but, after several date adjustments, Amazon's IPO time was finally determined on December 1.

Since the second quarter of this year, Amazon's sales have been climbing due to the large amount of attention brought about by the hunger marketing strategy of the Fireflyer player, with quarterly turnover rising from $87 million in the first quarter of this year to $310 million in the third quarter, and Wall Street expects Amazon's operating income to exceed $400 million in the last quarter and close to $900 million for the full year.

Although due to the continued high investment strategy, Amazon's financial statements this year are destined to be loss-making. However, this does not stop Wall Street from being bullish on the fast-rising e-commerce site.

After months of negotiations, Jeff Bezos and Morgan Stanley, who was in charge of Amazon's IPO, finally decided to set Amazon's valuation at $4.5 billion, issue 10% new shares, and plan to raise $450 million.

In fact, 450 million US dollars, Firefly Investment can be easily raised, however, everyone also understands that Amazon's listing, in addition to Jeff Bezos's desire to continue to sell shares to Firefly in order to avoid losing control, is also to make it easier to carry out capital operations such as mergers and acquisitions after listing.

As the most turbulent period of the Southeast Asian financial crisis gradually passed, a large amount of hot money began to flow back from Southeast Asian countries, and the US stock market, which had experienced several months of volatility, began to rise again without any decline. Therefore, almost all the media are very optimistic about Amazon's listing operation, and some people have even set their eyes on Yahoo, the most important Internet company in the Firefly system. (To be continued.) )