America's Road to Wealth

The Rockefellers, when discussing how to face someone.

Manhattan, Smith Tower.

"Ding--"

Abel waved goodbye to the girl standing in the elevator with a smile on his face. It was Ms. Keira Wilson, the new global president of Wells Fargo Bank who came to Smith Tower to discuss cooperation, and her secretary and main assistants.

At the start of the year, California's princess finally deserved her name. From the general manager of Wells Fargo New York to the global CEO of Wells Fargo, his status has risen a lot, from a regional leader to one of the core figures of Wells Fargo.

As the core industry of the California consortium, today she represented Wells Fargo to Smith Tower to discuss strategic cooperation with Smith Bank.

At the end of the whole morning, I left after eating a working lunch here.

Until the golden elevator door closed, he breathed out a foul breath, twisted his neck a few times, and Abel turned and walked to his office.

On the sofa in the rest area outside the office, David Mellon was flipping through a newspaper. On the coffee table in front of him was a cup of coffee that was about to bottom out. He heard footsteps, put down the newspaper, and looked in the direction of the footsteps , Seeing that it was the boss, he hurriedly got up and greeted with a smile: "Good afternoon, boss."

"Good afternoon, have you been waiting for a long time?" Abel asked David Mellon with a smile.

Abel has always had a very good attitude towards this assistant who was his earliest right-hand man and helped him a lot in the early stage.

However, he felt that he was worthy of David. A 1% stake in Smith Capital, even if it was just a dry stock, was enough to make David Mellon one of the richest people in the city.

"Not long."

"Yeah." Abel hummed lightly, not caring whether the other party had been waiting for a long time, after all, he was the boss.

At this time, Amanda Hearst, who was wearing a black loose dress, quickly walked up to him, and said softly: "Boss, this is the next schedule for today—"

It is different from Lydia Hearst, who has already gone to Europe and is the European president of Smith Media.

Amanda finally declined Abel's idea of ​​letting her go to Asia as the person in charge, and she chose to stay with Abel as Abel's secretary.

"Well." Abel took the agenda casually, put his eyes on the agenda document, and looked at Amanda with concern, "I heard from Donnie that you vomited at noon? Vomiting very badly? Take a break if you can't do it." Come on, don't tire yourself out."

Amanda, who was much calmer than before, smiled, "It's okay, I've been checked many times. Several doctors said that this is a normal physiological phenomenon."

"That's good."

A little behind, David Mellon, who was listening to the conversation between the two, couldn't help but look at the increasingly loose dress of the Hearst family's little princess and her slightly protruding belly.

The heir to the New York branch of the Mellon family thought: It seems that the rumors are true, Amanda Hearst is indeed pregnant for a long time. I just don't know what happened to Lydia Hearst who went to Europe.

After talking to Amanda, Abel walked towards the office while looking at David Mellon and said, "Let's chat in the office—"

"Okay, boss." David Mellon said, followed closely behind, and walked into the office with Abel one after the other.

In the office, Abel sat on the boss's chair, leaned on the back of the chair relaxedly, and motioned to David Mellon to ask him to sit down, then turned to look at the smiling flower standing beside him, looking more professional and capable Amanda asked:

"When did John Chris Morgan call?"

"Around nine o'clock, he wanted to ask you to have lunch at noon...but you had a schedule that you couldn't push, so you postponed it until the evening." Amanda replied immediately.

"Hehe..." Abel naturally immediately thought of the reason why the head of the Morgan family was looking for him, and said to Amanda with a smile, "Okay, I understand, you go out first."

"Okay boss." Amanda turned around without muddling at all, and walked out with two slender black silk legs.

Abel said to David Mellon on the opposite side: "You wait a moment, I will make two calls."

"You can do whatever you want, I'm not in a hurry—" David Mellon said with a smile.

Abel nodded, picked up the phone next to the desk, pressed a shortcut key, and soon a greeting came from the microphone.

"Warren, John Chris invited me to dinner at noon. If you have any requests, you can tell me and I will pass them on to him."

Listening to Buffett's complaints on the opposite side, the smile on Abel's face slowly disappeared, and finally turned into a sneer, "...haha, I get it. Believe me old man, they will compromise. Now our voice is louder , because we are stronger."

After hanging up the phone, Abel immediately turned into a smiling face, looked at David Mellon on the opposite side and said with a smile: "Okay, you can start—"

David Mellon nodded with a smile, without asking any more questions, first handed Abel a document, and then began to report.

"As the middle of the year approaches, we have received a big gift from the Federal Reserve. With multiple interest rate hikes, the U.S. stock market has recently hit a new high since 2003. Yesterday, May 6, the S\u0026P 500 index and the Nasdaq closed at a record high in 2003. A new high, the Dow has also risen 156 points in the past three trading days. Yesterday's rise was due to better-than-expected home sales in April and a boost in technology stocks."

"...by the close, the S\u0026P 500 was up 0.4 percent at 1,118.02, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 50.79 points, or 0.5 percent, at 10,464.93. The Nasdaq Composite was up 0.7 percent, Received 2252.67 points."

"The first half of the year has been a bumper one for us. Since 1950, the Dow has risen an average of 0.7 percent in the week before midyear and 1 percent in the week after, according to data provided by the firm's research department. Eight o'clock..."

“…company revenues were up 24 percent compared to the first half of last year and 33 percent compared to the second half of last year. Totaling $42 billion, a one-year high for the company… ..."

Hearing David Mellon's report and looking at the various data in his hands, the smile on Abel's face became extremely bright and happy, and he said to him with a smile: "It seems that you are doing very well, hahaha... ..."

"Boss, you are amazing!"

Hearing the boss's praise, David Mellon also laughed.

For Smith Capital, the main reason why it was able to make so much money in half a fiscal year is the strategic vision of their boss and the "cooperation" of the market.

Of course, one of the reasons is that the amount of funds controlled by the company has become extremely large.

Recently, if you want to make a lot of money, the premise is that you have a big capital yourself. Making a lot of money with a small capital is something that can only happen in a casino.

Regarding David Mellon's flattery, Abel shook his head with a noncommittal smile. He knows his own affairs, and he knows that his talent is of course very important.

But all the remaining links and detailed work are still inseparable from the credit of David Mellon and his subordinates.

If their ability is mediocre, then I guess I have to do it myself every day, and I may not even get the effect I have now.

And if that's the case, he'll have to focus all his energy on finances.

Don't even think about becoming the leader of a comprehensive consortium, because there is no such extra time at all.

Maybe even the time for entertainment and playing with women will become pitifully less.

"Send the reward report for the first half of this fiscal year, I will sign it, and you will send the money, so that everyone can share the joy of harvest!"

"Hehe, thank you boss, I thank the boss for your generosity on behalf of everyone..." David Mellon thanked with a smile, then took out another document from his briefcase, handed it to Abel with smiling hands and said : "I have brought..."

"Hahaha..." Abel laughed and pointed at the smiling David Mellon. He took the file, opened it, and browsed through it quickly. Picking up the signature pen on the table, swiping to sign his name, and then closing the document, he handed it to David Mellon with a smile on his face, and said with a smile: "If anyone likes gold, I can also give it to you." You exchange for gold bricks."

"Hehe, thank you boss, but I believe they prefer checks." David Mellon replied with a smile.

"Hey..." Abel pretended, "I didn't expect that one day I would be troubled by too much gold~"