It's another sunny morning.

Compared to London, which is often rainy and rainy, the weather here in southern Europe is too normal.

Perhaps it is for this reason that the Greek civilization and Roman Empire that started in Europe originated here.

Hotel Excelsior Venice.

Opening his sleepy eyes, Abel yawned. He scratched his hair and glanced at Penelope Cruz, who was clinging to his arms.

He smiled happily, kissed her on the forehead, and carefully took out his left arm that was supported by her.

The 27-year-old Spanish national treasure goddess is at her peak in both figure and appearance.

Compared with the Angsa race that now occupies a mainstream position in Europe and the United States.

The Castilian race on the Iberian Peninsula ages more slowly.

Penelope Cruz is a typical Iberian Peninsula beauty, with a different style from the blonde beauty of Anza.

Anyway, he likes them all and wants them all.

After getting off Simmons, Abel looked at the electronic clock next to him.

This is a "technological product" that has become very popular in Europe and the United States in recent years.

An electronic wall clock that uses simple LED lights to display specific time, temperature, and humidity.

In a few years, it will be replaced by various more advanced things.

But now in 2001, it is still a novel high-tech product.

The price is relatively expensive, so only high-end public places and families above the middle class can afford such things.

On the electronic clock, Abel saw that today was September 8, seven o'clock in the morning.

However, due to the time difference, Venice is six or seven hours ahead of New York.

In other words, it was only around the early morning of September 8th in New York.

There are still three days left.

With this thought in his mind, he walked into the bathroom.

When he came out of the living room wearing a bath towel, Doni and another female bodyguard were there.

As always, he took the clothes and helped him put them on.

After a simple breakfast at the Excelsior Hotel, he rushed back to the Lido Island mansion he had just bought.

When they returned to the house, Anne and Jessica had not gotten up yet.

In the past two days, Amo Alamuddin has suffered most of his firepower.

She had a good rest yesterday and got up very early today.

When Abel came back, she was playing tennis with Lulana, the daughter of cook Anne, in the tennis court of the villa.

The summer morning sunshine in southern Europe was quite mild, and Abel watched the beautiful girls and beauties in action for a while.

Not long after, David Jones came over with his No. 2 mobile phone.

"BOSS, this is the Norwegian's phone number."

Abel nodded and took it over to answer.

Slim Stadler's voice came from the mobile phone receiver.

The Norwegian's voice sounded a little tired, as if he hadn't slept all night.

"Mr. Smith, we agreed to your request. 5% of Statoil's shares, and the same 5% of Norwegian Hydro's shares. But it must be based on the current market value, do you understand what I mean?"

"Oh, of course I understand." Abel said with a smile.

"So." Slimstad's groggy voice sounded.

"I understand, I understand. Just wait for the good news!" Abel smiled again.

Slim Stad responded and hung up the phone first.

Abel was holding business phone No. 2. He looked at David, "What happened to the U.S. dollar and Norwegian krone last night?"

David immediately said softly: "Last night, international hot money led by Soros once again poured $15 billion worth of Norwegian krone into the market. The exchange rate between the Norwegian krone and the U.S. dollar fell below the 7.7 line for the first time, and is now hovering around 7.7950.

, it may rise to 7.8 at any time.”

Abel nodded after hearing this.

Norway is a typical export-oriented country, mainly exporting energy, seafood, and industrial products.

Although in this type of country, currency depreciation can often lead to an increase in exports.

It has certain benefits for the economy of one's own country.

However, there is a premise for this, that is, this currency depreciation must be controllable.

Uncontrollable currency depreciation will bring about more than just increased exports.

Rather, as the currency depreciates and exports increase, domestic wealth will also be plundered.

This is mainly because apart from energy, Norway’s other economic sectors are too small.

There is some heavy industry, but light industry basically needs to be imported due to climate and population problems.

Even most of the food needs to be imported from outside.

Except for energy, this economy is actually very similar to Han Kingdom and Neon.

It's just that the Norwegians are crippled by high welfare, and there is no rollover from East Asia.

In East Asia, currency depreciation is not a bad thing in many cases, but if the currency depreciates too much in Norway, the first people to suffer will be the Norwegians who enjoy high welfare.

In terms of the affordability of currency devaluation, a country like Norway with high national welfare is obviously not as good as East Asia, where the currency depreciation is everywhere.

Abel clicked on the contact on mobile phone No. 2, found Soros's number on it and made a call.

The call was quickly answered, but it was Soros's secretary who answered the phone.

The secretary said that Soros was still sleeping. Abel revealed his identity and the secretary immediately went to Soros.

A few minutes later, Abel heard Soros' tired voice coming from the phone.

The old guy probably stayed up very late last night, and he is quite old.

Being called out so early will naturally make you a little tired.

He is over 70 years old and he is still working so hard.

Retire when it’s time to retire!

"George." After hearing Soros's voice, Abel said directly and bluntly: "The Norwegians have given me a benefit of 5% of the shares of Norwegian Hydro and the corresponding shares of Statoil."

Soros on the other side of the phone heard these words from Abel.

The Oilman, who was still a little sleepy at first, suddenly became energetic.

Soros laughed angrily, "We have worked hard for more than two months, and only now have we earned several billion dollars, which has been divided among more than a hundred people."

"Abel, that's good for you. You haven't done anything and you've already received such great benefits!"

Hearing Soros's angry words, Abel calmly said, "No way, who told me to look more like a good person. Who told me to dominate the flow of the war now?"

He said bluntly: "George, if I want to get these shares, I will enter the market. I will start helping the Norwegians. Don't you have any ideas?"

"I understand what you mean. But Abel, do you know what you mean by doing this?"

Soros's voice rang through the phone's microphone: "It means you are going to be the enemy of most of the investors in the world!"

"Don't think you are so powerful." Abel was not afraid of his threats.

"If you were really so powerful, Norway would have surrendered to you long ago. If you were really so powerful, you wouldn't have returned empty-handed from Hong Kong Island a few years ago! George, many times you can only fight with the wind.

Just financial pirates.”

Soros was a little speechless when Abel said it.

It's not that his eloquence and quick wit are not good enough.

But Abel's timing was too good to catch it.

Now Abel is holding 400,000 lots of USD/NOK FX futures.

Once he chooses to close his position, such a large amount of money will inevitably suppress the rising momentum of USD/NOK.

It is very likely that the two months of international hot money efforts will be wiped out in a short period of time.

On the other hand, he holds a large amount of Norwegian krone in stock, which he will sell if he sells it.

The situation in Norway that can still be maintained now will most likely collapse in an instant.

Although he currently has 80 billion US dollars in capital, he has not invested the most in this financial war.

But just when the two sides were in a stalemate, the old strength was gone and the new strength was not born.

No matter which side he joins at this time, the other side will feel very uncomfortable and may even lose the war as a result.
To be continued...