Chapter 309 (1/2)

On December 1, Japan on the other side of the ocean, after another interest rate increase by the Bank of Japan in November, the Nikkei 225 index still maintained an upward posture in the shock, and broke through the 40000 mark in the afternoon of this day

as of the closing of local time in the afternoon, the Nikkei 225 index was finally set at 40039.

When people in Japan cheered for this record setting moment, a grapevine from Wall Street quickly began to spread.

It is said that according to very reliable sources, cersei capital, which has attracted much attention from the financial sector in recent months, has actually secretly withdrawn from the Japanese market.

The portfolio of financial securities related to the Japanese market held by cersei capital sub funds 1 to 5 were all packaged and sold to the Japanese consortium by Simon westero. Therefore, during this period, many hedge funds that follow cersei capital's operation around the Japanese market are actually not following Simon westero, but the Japanese government!

Over the past few months, there have been at least tens of billions of dollars in the whole financial market, and cersei capital has been chasing up the Japanese stock market. Everyone knows what it's going to mean if it turns out to be true.

The news was released after the Japanese stock market closed on Friday. Due to the time difference, it was still Friday morning in North America.

The Lehman team had planned to ferment the rumor over the following weekend in order to have enough panic effect before opening next Monday.

However, the news spread far faster than Lehman Brothers imagined. It took only one day, not just Wall Street, to be exact, but all the people who should know and should not know.

The first thing that the local media in North America thought of hearing the news was to contact cersei capital's related people to confirm the authenticity of the news.

Then, many media found that Simon westero was not in North America, and even James Leibold, President of westero, was far away in Europe. Another important person of cersei capital, Janet Johnston, also failed to get in touch. Try to contact the senior management of danielis entertainment company on the west coast, but still can't get any useful reply.

Compared with the media, some investment bank executives and even senior government officials have tried to contact Simon westero, but also failed to contact Simon himself. James Leibold, who can be contacted, is also a cliche of unknown words, which is undoubtedly a very obvious default.

So while the news spread faster than the team had expected, there was one thing they were right about.

Panic is spreading!

Cersei capital's goal is too obvious, there are too many insiders, and there are all kinds of hard to hide connections during the period. Simon didn't think this matter could be concealed forever from the beginning, and the Japanese obviously didn't expect it. The most important clause in the agreement reached by both sides is that Simon no longer participated in the short selling of Japanese stock market after the Japanese stock market turned.

Greece, Athens.

Because it's so cold in London at this time of year, Simon and Janet only lived there for three days, so the women couldn't bear it. They flew to Athens, the capital of Greece by the sea.

Simon and Janet had just returned from Johnston's private island in the Aegean Sea when they received the news from North America about the inside information of cersei capital's sub funds 1 to 5. They were resting in the luxury house in the rich mountainous area of northern Athens and were planning to go to Finland next Monday.

Westero's acquisition team has negotiated final contract details with Nokia, which will be signed next Monday.

Simon was not surprised because he had expected it.

Originally intended to remain silent as planned, the sudden visit of former president of Bank of Japan, harukio Maekawa, which he met in Melbourne at noon Athens time at the end of June, interrupted Simon's leisure.

Apart from himself, Yoko Kosugi, the ”gift” Simon has been refusing, is still following. The reason for the introduction is that the translator of Maekawa and others, and the other two are Maekawa's assistants.

After a brief greeting, Simon and his party came to the terrace in the backyard of the mansion.

The 6-acre mansion is also built on the mountain, with a specially built viewing terrace overlooking the whole city of Athens, only because it is too far away from the sea to see the sea level. However, since the surrounding area can become a rich area, the view is naturally excellent.

But Kawabata didn't enjoy the beautiful scenery. Simon, Janet, Kawabata and Yoko Kosugi sat down at the round table, waiting for the servant to bring coffee. With a tired look, Kawabata chuckled and said, ”Congratulations, Simon. That game of” the bear turtle ”seems to sell well these days.”

Simon sipped his coffee, nodded with a smile and said, ”thank you.”

”Before I came here, I learned in advance that Yamauchi's royalty system for Nintendo in recent years is a bit excessive. Since Denise entertainment intends to enter the field of video games, and has made such outstanding achievements, I think Nintendo should give Blizzard studios an ex gratia place overseas besides Capcom and klome ”Yes.”

Nintendo's royalty system, in short, is to review the content of game manufacturers, and extract the royalty equivalent to the licensing fee from each game cassette.In addition, Nintendo also monopolizes the production of game cassette, which further reduces the profit margin of game manufacturers.

Because kapukong, klome and other six game companies were the first to become Nintendo's game content suppliers. After Nintendo's rise, they were granted a preferential policy. Kapukong and other companies deliberately produced their own game cassettes, and the royalty they had to pay was far lower than that of ordinary game manufacturers who could not enjoy the preferential policy.

Ninja tortoise, released last month by danielis entertainment, is a $60 cassette. Nintendo will take $20 away from the cost of making the cassette and the royalty. After deducting the profits from the distributors, danielis entertainment can only get 30% of the gross profit from each cassette.

By contrast, Capcom, klimer and other companies, because of the preferential policy, the gross profit of each game cassette can reach 50%.

Nancy had expected ninja turtles to make $100 million in profits for the company in the next year, which could be increased by at least 50% if Nintendo's preferential policies were granted.

There is little foreshadowing for Maekawa to offer such rich chips. Simon can't help but be surprised. He doesn't doubt that this is an empty promise. Although Nintendo's president Yamauchi Pu is strong, Japanese companies are basically under the control of various consortia, Nintendo is no exception.