To little Laura's surprise, it was Abel who found the designer for "Lauren's Flower".

It's a female designer named Zaha Hadid, who is not very famous.

This female designer is Zaha Hadid, she has a private studio, and she is about fifty years old this year.

In an estate where 81 acres of land have not yet been demolished.

Little Laura watched Abel discuss with the other party.

「. Oh my God, Mr. Smith, follow your plan. The amount of high-energy cement and steel required would be astronomical."

"You might not need to use so much steel and concrete to build a skyscraper."

The person who spoke was architect Zaha Hadid.

Zaha Hadid in 2001 now.

Her fame is not that big. She has not yet been crowned as the "Devil of Architectural Design".

At this time, Zaha Hadid was just a well-known but controversial designer in the architectural design world.

By 2001, she had only worked on four designs.

One is a fire station in the town of Weil on the Rhine in Germany.

There is also a Rosenthal Center for Modern Art in Cincinnati, USA.

A parking lot in Strasbourg, France.

and a ski resort in Innsbruck, Austria.

These places and buildings, just look at the name, you know that they are not very famous.

They are only in the industry and are known for their outrageous design and super exaggerated construction difficulty.

But as long as it is an ordinary person who has seen these buildings, after seeing what they look like.

A literate person might praise them with some poems or even come up with a prose.

Uneducated, or straightforward people like Anne Hathaway.

Saw the buildings designed by Zaha Hadid.

Speaking Chinese is probably a sentence of "lying groove".

Speaking English, it's probably "fxxk".

A master of modern architecture, her designs are invariably outrageous and graceful in their lines.

In terms of construction difficulty and construction cost, without exception, the relevant civil engineering dogs will be called Fake.

Little Laura doesn't know any of this.

She's a smart girl, and she knows that even if she doesn't know Zaha Hadid.

Abel was able to find Zaha Hadid, so there must be a reason for him.

Little Laura didn't babble like the other women, or ask curiously about it.

She just smiled and listened to Abel's conversation with Zaha Hadid.

Even if little Laura is dissatisfied or confused, she will only do so at the right time.

Or if there are only two people, it will be appropriate to propose it to Abel.

Little Laura hears Abel say to Zaha Hadid:

"I know everything you said. Ms. Hadid, what I wanted was a one-of-a-kind home that no one else has. I also know that the cost of making it appear must be very exaggerated. I've been mentally prepared for this. Tell me if you can make it."

"Absolutely."

Zaha Hadid barely thought about it.

「. There is a solution to this request in terms of civil engineering and construction."

Zaha Hadid drew a small hill in the middle of 81 acres of land on simple papyrus.

Zaha circled the hill and said, "The area at the top of this small hill is about two hundred and fifty square meters."

"The circle I enclose is about 4,000 square meters."

"According to your thoughts, Mr. Smith. Then we can irrigate all the concrete in this circle and base it up to the level of the hills."

"That way, you'll get a man-made platform of more than 4,000 square meters."

second

He looked at Zaha Hadid's sketch, and he saw that the circle basically enclosed the entire hill from the foot of the mountain.

In other words, if you really want to pile it up, you have to pile it up from the foot of the small hill to the top of the mountain.

with reinforced concrete, as well as countless building materials.

The cost of this does not require much architectural knowledge, and ordinary normal people will feel very exaggerated when they think about it.

But Abel thought about it differently, and he smiled and said, "Give me a design drawing, and the cost of the project."

Zaha Hadid nodded, "No problem. But even if you don't accept it, my studio will charge money."

"Of course." Abel smiled and said, "Not a penny will be missing."

Zaha Hadid smiled, "Then my studio and I will be happy to serve you."

Zaha Hadid was sent away.

As soon as she was gone, little Laura said softly:

"This Lady Zaha Hadid, I haven't heard her name."

Abel knew what little Laura meant, and he had been prepared.

"Edward." Abel shouted.

Edward immediately came over, holding a file bag in his hand.

Able took the file bag that Edward handed him and took it to little Laura.

"Here are four works designed by Zaha Hadid, some of their photographs."

Little Laura took it curiously, not knowing what Abel meant.

But when she and Abel took a boat and returned to Manhattan.

Little Laura understood what Abel meant.

Because of these Zaha Hadid designs, they look so beautiful, too artistic, too designed.

Everything that fell into the eyes of little Laura amazed her.

When the two came ashore, little Laura also agreed to Zaha Hadid as the designer of her and Abel's future love nest.

Accompanied little Laura all day.

The next day, Monday.

Daytime.

Little Laura went to class.

Anne Hathaway filmed a night scene the day before yesterday, and yesterday when Abel and Little Lauren went out to play, Anne made up for a night's sleep at home.

Little Laura is going to school today.

Anne is also going to Queens to shoot a movie.

Abel had to be idle, thinking that he hadn't cut leeks for almost a month.

Leeks in the international market, after a month of recuperation.

It's also fat enough to be harvested.

At noon, he came to the Smith Building, where Smith Capital is located.

As soon as he arrived at the company, he went directly to CEO David Mellon.

"Gather a hundred of the most energetic traders." Abel said:

"Tell them that the king of the kingdom of Smith is going to lead his knights into battle again."

"Oh~YES!" David raised his hand and jumped very high, looking very excited.

David went out to gather men, and Abel waited in his office for about ten minutes.

David excitedly came in and informed him that everything was ready.

This speed is so fast that it is estimated that the employees of Smith Capital immediately gathered as soon as they heard this summoning order.

Abel immediately came outside.

「！ Your king is about to lead you to battle in the land of money, and lead you in the world of capital!"

David Mellon stood on the podium and began his very secondary two routine speech again.

"Now!"

"Cheers to your king!"

David Mellon was greeted with a roaring cheer.

In a cheer.

Abel smiled and raised a finger, and the hundred traders who were picked out immediately stopped cheering.

Abel took the microphone handed over by David, in an overall somewhat secondary atmosphere.

Abel couldn't help but be a little synthetic.

He smiled and said—

"Want a bonus?"

"Want a bigger income?"

"Want more dollars?"

"Go ahead, I'll put them all on the computer in front of you."

"Now, now, right now!"

"Get your work going!"

After Abel waved his hand.

These elites, who are almost all Ivy League graduates, quickly return to their seats and sit down, just like the pirates in One Piece who go out to sea to rob them.

They looked up, like schoolchildren looking at their teachers, at Abel, the King Smith they thought they had.

Abel turned his back to them, he was looking at the financial information on the wall of the screen, and he was picking the lucky ones.

"Just pick ......"

"USD/NOK!"

Abel picked a random "lucky one".

Norway is a Nordic country.

Among the five Nordic countries, the economy and currency are relatively strong.

Its overall plate is okay, and on the information wall on the screen, Abel also saw that in the past few days, the country's currency has fluctuated quite a lot.

This made him set his sights on this lucky one.

Talent tells him what to do next.

Abel smiled and said, "Let's go long, let's help the lovely Americans and Norwegians so that the dollar can be exchanged for more Norwegian kroner." It's going to make it easier for Americans to travel to Norway, and Norwegians can earn American dollars, so let's do the best of both worlds."

It doesn't matter if you're short or long.

As long as they can make money, the traders of Smith Capital put their hearing to the maximum and listened to Abel's instructions.

Abel glanced again at the real-time exchange rate on the wall of the screen, USD/NOK: 7.6049.

"Buy 100,000 lots first, hold long positions, and pay attention to consumption offset!" Abel said.

After he gave the order to trade.

The "knights" of Smith Capital got to work.

The plate of this currency pair is obviously not as large as USD/JPY or USD/GBP.

Norway's economy is not as good as that of the United Kingdom or Neon.

With the rapid influx of this money, the USD/NOK exchange rate has risen rapidly.

It's just two hours.

Its price has already reached the point of 7.6111.

That is, one US dollar, which can be exchanged for 7.6111 Norwegian krone.

There is no doubt that this is an appreciation for the dollar, and it is a long walk.

But against the Norwegian krone, it depreciated.

On the surface, Smith Capital has made a profit of 61 points at this time.

If you only look at the number of floating profit points, you can really say that.

However, the increase in these points is actually a large amount of money smashed by Smith Capital, because it is doing more US dollars, which leads to the rise of the capital.

If Smith Capital chooses to close all positions at this time, it will be thrown away.

It is impossible to keep this exchange rate unchanged under the huge amount of money thrown away.

The floating profit points will definitely fall with it.

After all the long positions of Smith Capital are closed and sold, it is estimated that the exchange rate will even fall lower than when he bought it.

The two are offset.

Not to mention making money, you may even lose money.

Normal investment banks will be very cautious when carrying out this kind of operation, and if they are above this number.

Unless there is really a big market, such as the previous black swan market of USD/JPY.

If there is no big market, or an international black swan event.

No one would dare to spend such money on such a small plate as USD/NOK, which is not so large.

If it's those big investment banks

We operate normally.

That's all with caution. If you want to short or long a country's currency, you should hold a small amount of positions in multiple batches, and then sell them out of the market at the right opportunity.

Only Abel operates by talent. to dare such an unscrupulous operation.

To be gifted is to be willful.

Smith Capital's follow-up funds are still in the process of entering and building positions one after another.

Abel told the traders and David to pay attention to the market.

He was about to go back to the office for a cup of coffee.

David, who had been keeping an eye on the market, suddenly shouted loudly, "Boss. Someone entered."

an hour ago.

Neon, Tokyo.

Neon Bank, among the Central Bank Building.

Kuroda sipped his coffee with one hand in his pocket and walked among the hundreds of elite traders at work.

Akihiko Kuroda belongs to a special economic action group of the Neon Central Bank.

The so-called Special Economic Action Group is actually the investment arm of the Neon Central Bank.

It is mainly responsible for the actions of central bank investment, including long and short positions, arbitrage, equity, global macro, insurance, absolute return, momentum, multi-strategy, etc.

To put it simply, the so-called Special Economic Action Group is a group responsible for earning profits from the international market for the neon central bank.

At the same time, it also has the responsibility of stabilizing the exchange rate of the neon country and the domestic economic situation of the neon country.

There are many groups like Akihiko Kuroda, and his group is only one of the more outstanding and elite economic groups.

The central banks of most countries also have such organizations.

They also serve in a similar role to Kuroda's group, which is responsible for making international gains for their central banks and the country.

The foreign exchange, futures, insurance, and stock transactions of those central banks in the world are carried out by this kind of organization.

Including the rabbit side, there are some similar people.

These people can also be called national teams.

Sometimes, even American conglomerates take on such responsibilities.

That is, it generally requires the Federal Reserve to come forward and even provide funds.

Then the financial capitalists of the United States will end up in a false situation.

Whoever calls the central bank of the United States, it is a private bank.

As one of the members of the national team of the Neon Central Bank, Akihiko Kuroda is actually average.

This is something that many of the elites of the high-level, or Neon Bank, know.

Akihiko Kuroda can act as a squad leader because he has a good older brother.

Who called his brother Nishihiko Kuroda, the current president of Neon Bank?

Everyone knows that he was able to climb to this position because he had a good family background and a good brother.

This is normal in neon, family background, connections, nepotism, in neon is far more important than ability.

But Kuroda doesn't think so, he thinks he can be the leader of the group because of his own ability.

In addition to his brother, his subordinates and friends have also praised him in this way.

Plus after more than a year of work, everything has been going smoothly.

Akihiko Kuroda has always felt that he is a financial genius who is unique in neon.

When Abel arranges Smith Capital to enter the USD/NOK.

Kuroda Akihiko was happily drinking coffee when suddenly one of his subordinates shouted:

"Kuroda-sama. Come and take a look. One of the funds we are concerned about has been caught by us."

Kuroda Akihiko was stunned for a moment and walked over quickly.

"Nani?! Where is it? Do you know which rice animal consortium is funding it?"

"Look. We traced that the money had just entered USD/NOK in a big way. This currency pair has risen by more than 60 points in just two hours! This plate has grown from more than $500 million to more than $10 billion

Dollars!"

Kuroda frowned.

The plate has gone from more than $500 billion to more than $10 billion.

This means that the other party is likely to throw in billions of dollars in a short period of time.

So confident?

Is this a short-term or long-term trade?

If you're trading in the short term, it's too risky.

With so much money going into a small currency pair, it's easy to say if it's long-term, but it's really a big adventure if it's short-term.

"Kuroda-sama? What are we going to do now. Do you want to target it?"

His men asked aloud.

Although straw bales, Akihiko Kuroda is also a graduate of the Department of Finance at Tokyo University.

It's hard to say whether a high-achieving student is a high-achieving student or not.

However, Akihiko Kuroda has no shortage of knowledge in the financial field.

Otherwise, just by virtue of his family background, he would not be the leader of this group.

Akihiko Kuroda knows that anything can happen in the forex market.

Sometimes the market is very good, but when you are short, you just encounter a rapid decline in the currency, and you can harvest and leave the market.

But often a fortuitous event causes the exchange rate to suddenly rise, many giants enter the market, and then the good situation that could have been profitable is destroyed in an instant.

This kind of thing is very common in the foreign exchange market, and Kuroda himself has experienced it.

Trading on the Forex market.

No matter how cautious you are, you can't be too cautious.

"Watch again. I'll take a look."

Kuroda Akihiko said calmly.

Akihiko Kuroda quickly ordered the traders to check the recent economic situation in Norway and Europe, as well as some economic news in Norway.

As a result of the inquiry, Norway's economy and exchange rate have strengthened recently compared to Europe and the euro.

You must know that due to the new century, the NASDAQ Internet bubble burst implicated.

The U.S. stock market is in mourning. The U.S. stock market is also a barometer of the world's economy.

The barometer is not good-looking, and of course the world economy will also be affected, so the world economy as a whole has fallen slightly recently.

Europe is not immune.

However, Norway has gone in the opposite direction during this time, and its economy is generally much better than that of its neighbors.

During this period of time, Norway's economy has gone against the general trend of the world and has actually been on the upside.

As Norway's most important currency, the NOK is naturally also on the upside.

A week ago, USD/NOK was 7.6190.

It is now around 7.6100 and is the result of its continued strength.

And before it was suppressed, it was even 7.6049.

After Kuroda Akihiko read it, his heart was settled.

Because he found that this time the NOK is likely to continue to strengthen

It is mainly powered by the discovery of two new oil fields and three new gas fields in Norway.

The content of these five oil and gas mines is still very high.

So much so that it has driven the country's overall GDP.

This is undoubtedly a big guarantee for the NOK.

Akihiko Kuroda decided to give it a try.

"Mobilize funds. We enter. Short USD/NOK, this time to hit these rice animals hard. Let these abominable white pigs know that we are not to be trifled with."

Kuroda Akihiko said calmly.

"Kuroda-sama, how much money do we have to enter?"

"$1 billion. Use a margin account to enter."

"Okay."

Traders operate quickly.

&000 million US dollars margin account operation, if someone provides leverage, then it can reach billions of dollars or tens of billions of dollars.

It's just that the risk is high.

If you enter with your own funds,

The loss that $10 billion of its own funds can afford is all it, and no matter how much it falls, it will not fall anywhere.

However, if it is a margin trade, sometimes a few pips may lead to a liquidation. Once the position is liquidated, there will be no particles left.

Kuroda Akihiko's trading request for a margin leverage ratio of 1 billion was quickly replied to after it was issued.

Because of his brother, Kuroda has a high position within Neon Bank.

The bank, for its part, quickly approved his application.

Ten times the leverage, after entering this plate, is a short order of 10 billion US dollars.

As a result, the exchange rate of the US dollar against the Norwegian krone, which had risen by dozens of points, fell again all at once, and even fell more than the number of points that rose.

Looking at his results, Kuroda Akihiko showed a smug smile.

Now he wants to see how these rice animals will deal with it.

If the other party opens a position again, he will continue to suppress it.

If the other party does not increase its position, the general economic trend of Norway itself will make USD/NOK fall on its own.

Anyway, it's bearish for USD/NOK.

Then Kuroda Akihiko and his group can make a profit.