Chapter 957 10 Billion

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Manhattan, the Westeros corporate headquarters in Midtown.

The time is June 10.

Simon, who arrived in New York yesterday, spent all day today meeting with Westeros management and other Westeros subsidiary executives via video link about plans for a second-half bond offering.

Speaking of which, Simon now not only owns a series of stocks that total more than one trillion US dollars, but the total amount of cash held by the entire Westeros system has reached a level that would be staggering if known to the insiders.

It is only said that Westeros Corporation, the core of the Westeros system, has continuously contributed profit dividends through its various subsidiaries and continuously reduced its holdings and cashed out generously in the first half of the year. Cash and cash-equivalent short-term convertible bonds totaled $12.7 billion.

This is still the continuous investment in all aspects of Westeros Corporation and the continuous large investment in recent years to buy old corporate giants such as Boeing, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, General Electric, Walmart, Berkshire Hathaway, etc. Stocks, otherwise Westeros would have more cash holdings.

At the same time, the Westeros system has also gained a large number of board seats of old American corporate giants through stock investments that generally hold more than 5%, which is actually quietly strengthening the Westeros system. U.S. economic influence, and even potential control over the country.

After all, it is a standard capitalist country.

Capital controls everything.

Controlling capital is also equal to controlling everything, and it is more secretive.

In fact, it is not a good thing for a company to hold too much cash. The dollar continues to depreciate. If it does not reinvest, the more cash it hoards, the greater the hidden losses. However, with the US bull market rushing to the top again, Simon has stopped buying stocks of various established companies, and investment in all aspects has begun to tighten.

Mainly because it is very uneconomical to invest now.

Stocks that can be sold for $100 at the moment may be bought for $20 or 30 after the stock market bubble bursts and enters a bear market cycle in another year or two.

Similarly, because the market is so good, financing is easier and cheaper at this stage, especially for a series of fast-growing and reputable companies in the Westeros system. So it's the best time to stock up on money for the day.

After a day-long meeting and discussion, the bond issuance plan for the Westeros system in the second half of the year was initially finalized.

Start with AOL first.

After the Telecommunications Act was promulgated, the legal restrictions restricting AOL's comprehensive expansion in the country no longer existed. Today, AOL, on the one hand, has further strengthened its investment in telecommunications infrastructure, and on the other hand, has begun to prepare to enter the field of cable TV operators.

As we all know, large-scale telecom investment is a very expensive business.

Just as China has to promote the overseas listing of state-owned telecommunications companies to raise funds in order to develop the telecommunications industry.

In recent years, AOL has been issuing bonds without interruption. Of course, this time, it will not miss it. It plans to issue another 10-year to 20-year long-term bond with a total amount of 3 billion US dollars in July. This money It's guaranteed that AOL won't run out of cash for at least the next two years.

The outside world knows how much money AOL has burned in recent years, and it would seem very legitimate to start with this company.

The rebound of the capital market can be minimized.

Moreover, all bond issuance plans in the second half of the year will be mainly aimed at overseas investors, and the purpose is also to avoid too many unpredictable impacts on the domestic capital market of the United States.

After AOL, in August, Verizon was listed and suspended.

Next.

In September, Cisco, $2 billion.

In October, with the presidential election approaching, it was suspended.

In November, after the U.S. election vote, Nokia, Tinkerbell and Johnston Holdings, each with $1 billion.

In December, the headquarters of Westeros Corporation, $2 billion.

The entire bond issuance program, totaling $10 billion.

The main purpose of such decentralized execution is to reduce the disturbance to the US stock market.

In fact, for those who have a little knowledge of finance, the Westeros system has continuously reduced its holdings on a large scale in the first half of the year. In fact, it is already obvious to tell everyone that it is time to stop, and a crisis is coming. However, many things in this world are like this, and most people understand the truth, but few can really make decisions rationally and according to the truth.

Buffett's phrase "I am afraid when others are greedy, and I am greedy when others are fearful" is actually the most simple and authentic way of expressing the true meaning of the capital market.

It's a pity that there are always people who want to fish more, there are always people who think they can escape at a critical moment, and there are always people who think they won't be so unlucky.

The results are predictable.

As long as it is not poured directly into a pot of boiling water, most of the 'frogs' tend not to think about escaping. The Westeros system's phased bond issuance plan is another form of boiled frog, and it's a result Simon likes to see.

In short, the bubble should not burst because of the financing behavior of the Westeros system.

This pot is too big.

At the end of the day's work, the evening was a family dinner for the Raybold family, and the Robert Iger family, who had also returned from the West Coast, was also invited.

The second day is Tuesday, June 11.

Of course, the tens of billions of dollars in bond issuance plans can not be completed in one day, but the follow-up will be coordinated by James Raybold.

Simon couldn't be idle either.

Tuesday was mostly devoted to Daenerys Entertainment's TV business.

Now is the summer vacation, the off-season of the TV industry, and the TV promotion season in May has ended. At present, it is mainly to prepare for the autumn season and launch various pilot episodes to observe market feedback.

In fact, Daenerys Entertainment is still continuing to digest and integrate the Metropolitan ABC Group, which was annexed last year. Therefore, even in the off-season, it does not dare to relax at all, not to mention the Olympic Games next month. TV stations still have a lot of related businesses to follow up.

There is another very important one.

Negotiations have been ongoing for ESPN to buy out the rights to broadcast NFL games.

This matter started when Daenerys Entertainment won the Metropolitan ABC last year. Until now, the negotiation has lasted for more than half a year. The main reason is that both parties are not in a hurry and have been slowly grinding because the existing contract will not be completed until next year. The end, the Super Bowl final at the beginning of each year, is the end of a football league season, so it was useless to even talk about it last year.

However, no matter how long it takes, there will be results.

Several core terms involved at present are basically finalized.

8 years, $9 billion.

This is exactly the same price that Simon remembers, and it is actually the highest price Simon set to ESPN CEO Steve Bernstein before the negotiations started.

That's why it took so long to grind.

After all, after the Metropolitan ABC Group was acquired by Daenerys Entertainment, the National Football League will inevitably have the idea of ​​eating big players. Daenerys Entertainment is such a fat sheep, and it is not slaughtered for nothing.

It's a pity that the last thing Simon likes is to be taken advantage of.

8 years and 9 billion US dollars, compared with the previous broadcast price, such an asking price is already high. If the National Football League is still insatiable, Simon would rather not buy it. The big deal is to buy out the NBA first.

Now the National Football League has basically known the upper limit of the offer that Daenerys Entertainment can give, and there is no sign of tearing its face. It is expected that a formal contract will be signed in July, but it will not be implemented until the new season next year. 90 The broadcast fee of 100 million US dollars is also paid in batches after the official execution of the contract.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, at the end of the day's work, Simon rushed from the East Coast headquarters of Daenerys Entertainment on the Upper West Side to the East Village in lower Manhattan.

Inside an office building off First Avenue in the East Village.

As soon as Simon arrived, he was greeted by Grace Spoulte, who had apparently been waiting.

This is an old-looking red brick office building with about ten floors.

When she learned that Simon was coming over by phone over the weekend, Grace asked him if she wanted to see the girls she had been collecting for months.

In fact, it is the new year's Elite World Elite Model Contest.

The competition started in April, and through the selection of hundreds of thousands of applicants around the world, it has entered the top 64 so far. The last 64 girls were able to come to North America and participate in the final training and finals of the model competition while becoming the official contracted customers of Elite.

Unlike "American Idol" produced by Daenerys Entertainment last year, the Elite Model Contest has a relatively simple process.

And in the past events, the human tendency is very serious.

This is also the main reason why Elite's scandals in the late 1990s led to the decline of the company.

Because whether Elite executives, judges or even ordinary employees regard the model contest as a hunting ground for women's sex, Linda Evangelinsta's ex-husband showed a thick stack of photos in the BBC's unannounced interview and said to sleep all over All the above girls' 'big words' came from this background. As a result, a scandal led to the rapid decline of Elite, and the tree fell and scattered.

Now, Elite was taken over by Grace and indirectly became a member of the Westeros system. Of course Simon would not allow this to happen again.

Under the strict supervision of Grace, this year's Elite World Elite Model Competition is much more formal than in previous years.

For example, Linda Evangelinsta's ex-husband Gaillard Mari, the president of Elite's Paris division, was cleared out last year. Now Elite can be described as Grace alone in power, and it is no longer lost in the John Casablanca era. With the enterprising sloppy state, the entire company is revived, all kinds of business processes are gradually standardized, and the probability of certain things happening is much smaller.

Of course it can't be avoided.

In such a circle, a slap is actually not sound. Some people are hunters, and naturally some people are willing to become prey for the sake of the superior.

Frankly speaking, Simon himself is the hunter standing at the top of the pyramid, so he definitely doesn't like other similar people looking around in his hunting ground, which makes the Elite system more standardized, because after the Elite reform, the income of all employees, including its models are on the rise, and the gold content of the job has increased substantially.

In this case, especially for executives with potential to become hunters, it would be more than worth the loss if they lost their jobs because they coveted a target that the big boss might like.

After all, keeping warm can think **.

In any case, the job is still more important.

Simon and Grace entered the elevator of the building with several other attendants, looking at the obvious mottled appearance of the elevator, and asked, "How do you choose here?

inside? "

There were other people beside her, Grace was just gently next to Simon without being too intimate, she turned her head to look at the man beside her, with a soft tone in her tone: "Because it's cheap, it used to be in Greenwich, and then it was in Soho, now It's the East Village, and in a few years, maybe it's just Brooklyn."

Simon said: "Elite shouldn't be short of money, right?"

Elite in the John Casablanca era was very profitable, otherwise it would not have rented a three-story headquarters on Fifth Avenue. Now, after streamlining redundancy and opening up new businesses, Elite's revenue has increased, expenses have decreased, and profits will only be higher. Maybe in a few years, it will be able to build its own headquarters building like CAA in Hollywood.

Grace said: "Of course there is no shortage, but I have to be responsible to the shareholders, and if I save a little, I can also provide benefits to everyone. Unnecessary expenses can naturally be saved."''

Simon curled the corners of his mouth: "Such a good boss, I want to come and work for you."

Grace just pursed her lips and chuckled.

The elevator door opened quickly, and this was the seventh floor. Everyone walked out of the elevator, turned left and came to a door. The door was an open room, about seven or eight meters wide and twenty meters long. It was obviously designed as an office space, but at this time it was used as a practice room.

First impression upon entering.

All legs.

All legs.

all legs...

It was mainly a large group of tall girls wearing tights who were practicing their body steps. It was really eye-catching. Moreover, they were almost the same height, white vests, black tights, and uniformly showing a small waist. This kind of neat feeling , is simply the gospel of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Seeing Grace, the Elite female head, lead a young man into the door, the girls who were training were puzzled at first, and then they felt that someone seemed familiar, as if... Simon Westeros?

There are more than 60 girls, no matter where in the world they come from, there are probably none of them who do not know the name Simon Westeros, and there are not many who have never seen Simon's appearance from various media. At this time, a real person Face to face, after repeated confirmation, all eyes lit up.

To be able to come this far from among the hundreds of thousands of girls, in addition to their excellent body and appearance, none of these girls are fools.

Of course it's clear what the name Simon Westeros means.

At least, thinking about the series of identities of the other party, it is completely a hanging ladder to the sky step by step!

As more and more girls reacted, the atmosphere at the scene inevitably became restless. Even the training teacher who was in charge of training the girls frequently looked at Simon, and everyone immediately understood why it was clearly past 5 o'clock. , and an additional dry hour of rehearsal today.

Obviously it is for the arrival of the big man not far away.

Simon didn't go directly to the crowd, but sat down on a simple bench against the wall, took a roster from Grace, saw the woman's gaze inquiring, and said with a smile, "Let them continue, I'll take a look."

Grace naturally had no objection to Simon's request. She walked to a person in charge at the scene, explained it in person, walked back, saw the man patted beside him, and sat down next to him.

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