"Based on what I've been watching recently, after the second round of harvesting in Southeast Asia in the first half of the year, the major hedge funds have shifted their targets to the ruble," Eric said. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoOnce the ruble is lost, outside Southeast Asia, Russia, the last emerging economy in recent years, will also be destroyed, the European economy will be in a stagnant pool, the dollar will start a cycle of interest rate hikes, the NASDAQ market will be booming, and there seems to be no suspense about where the trillions of capital withdrawn from Southeast Asian countries will go. In my opinion, the NASDAQ 2000 is just the beginning. ”

As president of Morgan Stanley, John? Marc naturally also has a very deep insight into the world economic situation, and he also understands why Eric mentioned the ruble at this time.

Although he is also very optimistic about the future of technology stocks, at this time, John Mark retorted: "Eric, this is just your opinion, many people just think that the Russian economy is recovering, which is a very good investment target." As far as I know, Mr. Soros invests a significant portion of Southeast Asia's earnings in the Russian stock and bond markets. The Nasdaq technology stock market has generally reached unbearable earnings ratios, which are crazier than any previous bull market, and we are now taking a big risk by buying AOL stocks. ”

Eric knew about his big investment in Russia when he met with Soros last year, and he discussed it with Soros at the time.

However, Eric didn't intend to convince John? Mark just said, "John, that's my attitude. I'm not going to make any concessions on the transfer price of AOL shares, you only have one month, and after a month, Firefly Investments will start a public reduction process. I believe that AOL's stock price will go up to a new level in the next month, maybe the market value will break through $50 billion, although AOL's price-to-earnings ratio is indeed a bit high, but his revenue and growth rate are very good, for many investors, this company is still a valuable investment target, I am not worried that no one will be willing to buy the shares sold by Firefly. ”

"But, Eric, it's not good for you to do this. Firefly Investment's shareholding is too large, even if you reduce your holdings by 1% every month, it will take three years, and only we have enough strength to inherit the shares in your hands. ”

The dot-com bubble could last less than two years at best, and Eric didn't even think about being able to reduce his AOL stock holdings cleanly, nor did he plan to really sell it to the secondary market little by little.

What he is now competing with AOL shareholders is who is the first to give in.

If AOL's stock price started to fall, other shareholders would not be able to easily agree to Eric's request, but now the situation is that the stock price has been rising. The higher the stock price rises, in order to keep the profits that have been gained

benefit, the more likely it is that other shareholders will not be able to hold on first.

John Mark and Eric had a back-and-forth discussion for more than half an hour, and when Eric was resolute, he had to leave in disappointment.

Seeing off John Mark, Eric said hello to the twins and went upstairs alone, intending to take a shower first.

He is a family lover in his bones, and in a familiar environment, Eric naturally relaxed a lot, lying in the large bathtub of the bathroom of the shell villa, unconsciously soaking for a long time, and even a little drowsy.

The bathroom door was suddenly pushed open, and a girl in a light blue T-shirt and white slacks barged in, grinning, and threw herself into the large bathtub without taking off her clothes, wrapping around Eric with a burst of humming and chirping kisses.

Eric indulged in letting the girl be presumptuous for a while, feeling that the girl had kissed her and then gnawed lightly on his neck like a little beast, and then reached out and took off a few light clothes on the girl's body and threw them aside.

After a while, holding a soft and slender little body in his arms, skin to skin, Eric turned his neck sideways, smiled and whispered: "Okay, don't gnaw anymore, with a mark on my neck let me see people." ”

The girl seemed to have a sudden epiphany, and her thin white neck came to Eric's mouth: "Eric, you can help me bite it." ”

Eric dodged and said, "Don't bite, if I turn you into a vampire, my identity will be exposed, and I will be burned to death." ”

"Hehe," the girl laughed for a while, feeling Eric's reaction, and didn't care that it was in the bathtub, she sat up regardless of it, and then her body softened on Eric's body, and she chirped like a kitten, "Eric, I miss you very much." ”

Eric put his arm around the girl's waist and said, "I miss you too." ”

Leaving New York half a month ago, Eric has never had a woman, at this time holding the same emotional girl, the two tossed heartily for a long time, changed their clothes and went downstairs, it was already eight o'clock in the evening, and the twins had already prepared dinner.

Instead of dining in the restaurant, the two set up a small table by the terrace pool, sat opposite each other, accompanied by the cool breeze of a summer night in Los Angeles, and chatted about what had happened in recent times while eating.

"I went to Washington last week, and it was a laugh to see Mr. President swear in court that nothing had happened to him and the intern, and several people around me almost laughed."

During this period, the most lively current event that attracted the attention of the whole people was undoubtedly the zipper door, and in order to win seats in the midterm elections of the US Senate and the two houses, Clinton's political opponents seized on this incident and chased after it fiercely.

It's just that, listening to the girl's gloating little appearance, Eric put down the red wine in his hand, picked up the knife and fork, and couldn't help laughing: "You're really boring, you went to Washington to watch the president's jokes." ”

"I'm not so idle, it's for the TV station license, we plan to give E! Entertainment adds a sub-channel. ”

Eric smiled and said, "Then you shouldn't go to the president's jokes, be careful that he puts little shoes on us." ”

"No, Amy said that now is the best time to apply for a photo, the president needs support at this time, where do you dare to offend us."

With the consolidation of American media groups, Hollywood's power is also getting stronger and stronger. If you can have a good relationship with Hollywood, no politician will do the opposite.

Eric just smiled and nodded, and stopped mentioning the matter, and instead asked, "How is the midnight pre-sale of "Breaking Bad 3"?" ”

The girl knew why Eric asked this, and said, "It is estimated that it can exceed 10 million dollars, and it will definitely be no problem to surpass "The Matrix 2". "The Matrix 2" fell by 53% this weekend, which is not a threat to "Breaking Bads 3" this week. ”

Eric had just returned in the afternoon, and he didn't know what the box office numbers were for last weekend. However, listening to what the girl said, my heart was completely relaxed.

Only Disney's family-friendly low-budget comedy "Born a Couple" was released this week, which can be said not to have any impact on "The Matrix 2", but the decline of this film is still more than 50%, and it is conceivable that the decline of "The Matrix 2" will only be more ugly in the face of "Breaking Bad".

After all, it was a series from the Firefly Group, and Eric didn't gloat too much, and even Katzenberg privately asked Eric if he wanted to do something to restrict the release of "The Matrix 2", but Eric refused.

The next day was Wednesday, and perhaps because John Mark was rejected by Eric, some AOL shareholders chose to sell and cash out early, considering the impact that Firefly Investment's large-scale public reduction could have on the stock price.

However, the management led by Steve Keys and his supporters also chose to enter the market to maintain the stock price, and after a sharp drop in the morning session, the stock price was quickly pulled up again.

After a full day of volatility, AOL shares managed to maintain a high of $261.33 and a market capitalization of more than $43 billion.

By Thursday, AOL's shares were still volatile throughout the day, but at the end of the day, they were very strong and up 1.6% again.

Throughout the process, although all the media still paid the most attention to the reaction of Firefly Investment, the largest shareholder, since the three Chris announced their resignation from AOL at a press conference last week, the top management of the Firefly system has not expressed any public views on AOL.

Even the news about AOL released by the media under the Firefly system is basically a well-known press release.

However, there is no impermeable wall, and although most of the people who participated in the video conference last week tried to hide the news of Firefly Investment's attempt to reduce its stake in AOL by 10% at once, the relevant information inevitably leaked out, but there was no official confirmation, and the regular media chose to take a cautious stance and did not report it publicly.

As for the Internet platform with the most free information dissemination, the first two of the three major Internet portals happen to be the 'parties', and neither Yahoo nor AOL can allow similar news to spread wantonly, so it has also not caused any waves.

After the failure of John Mark's contact with Eric, all parties also fell into a temporary stalemate and wait-and-see mode.

Eric also gradually put aside the impact of AOL, returned to Los Angeles, and checked Joss Whedon's rough cut of "Iron Man", and Eric began to officially prepare for the start of filming of "Gravity".

Although there is a full year between now and the end of next year, "Gravity" will involve a lot of new shooting and special effects technology, as well as the promotion of 3D and IMAX screenings.

However, before that, Eric's first attendance was the premiere of "Breaking Bad 3" in Los Angeles on Thursday.

After last year's "007: Casino Royale" officially opened the assembly of the MGM Agent Cinematic Universe and was a great success, as the first Agent Cinematic Universe movie after "007: Casino Royale", "Breaking Badgy 3" brought together the strong expectations of countless fans of the three major agent series.

Although it has the shallowest foundation among the three series and is a female action movie with natural disadvantages, after several years of all-round careful operation, the popularity of the "Breaking Baby" series is not weaker than the other two.

Even, because Eric designed a very complete story background for "Breaking Bad" from the beginning, through peripheral comics and other forms, the three protagonists' related story branches have brought a series of various foreshadowing extensions that fans talk about, unconsciously condensing the attention of fans, making the core fan base of the "Breaking Bad" series far exceed the other two

Kevin Costner, the actor of the "Mission Impossible" series, will also appear in this film.

After "Dances with Wolves", most of Kevin Costner's works outside of the "Mission Impossible" series ended in failure, the box office fiasco of "Future Waterworld" even almost destroyed his acting career, and the most recent "Patriot" starring Mel Gibson was also not a hit, which made Kevin Costner more and more aware of the importance of "Mission Impossible" to him.

Eric's strong stance in the Pierce Brosnan salary negotiation process last year also made Kevin Costner's attitude less aggressive in terms of salary negotiations and participating in the Secret Service Cinematic Universe Crossover.

In this "Breaking Bads 3", Kevin Costner only received $5 million.

Although the other party also insisted that his role in this film should not exceed five minutes, this is enough to completely connect the three series.

At the same time, the production budget of "Breaking Bads 3" not only reached the highest of 160 million US dollars in the three series so far, but the scale of the film's publicity and distribution was even stronger, but General Motors invested 100 million US dollars in the joint promotion of its Buick brand and "Breaking Bads 3", and MGM's own advertising budget also reached 50 million US dollars, totally, the total scale of the film's production and publicity was close to 300 million US dollars, even exceeding the "Titanic" three years ago.

Buick is undoubtedly the most successful advertising partner brand of "Breaking Badgy 3".

Although it invested $100 million in co-branded advertising and paid MGM a record-breaking $30 million in product placement in the early stage, Buick, as a Volkswagen brand that sells more than 2 million units a year worldwide, has far outpaid the price.

Just last year, the Buick sports car of the same model as the "Thunderbolt Baby", which was launched for young people with a price of about 3 to 50,000 US dollars, exceeded 160,000 units for the whole year, and this alone added more than 6 billion US dollars to GM's turnover.

According to an article published by Business Week magazine, in recent years, the direct economic benefits of the "Breaking Bad" series to Buick are equivalent to 12 times the profits brought by the film to MGM. The potential value-added effect of the brand is limitless.

In recent years, several major automakers in Europe and Asia have tried to compete for this brand placement opportunity, and the price offered is no less than that of Buick, but out of caution in all aspects, MGM chose to refuse.

The Los Angeles premiere of "Breaking Bads 3" began at 5 p.m., but since the day before, a large number of fans have gathered near the Chinese Grand Theater.

By Thursday afternoon, the streets hundreds of meters near the theater were already filled with frenzied crowds, and Eric himself was startled when he got off the bus with the girl at the red carpet entrance.