Great Power

When Zheng Jianguo bought the oil contract, he spent US$318 million to build a position at a price of US$27 and 39 cents. He held a total of 116,210,295 barrels of oil contract, so when Charlie asked him to settle the accounts, he directly multiplied the increase. The figure of 110 million is enough.

The latest oil contract is 33 US dollars and 81 cents per barrel. After subtracting the 27 US dollars and 39 cents bought, we get a difference of 6 US dollars and 42 cents. Multiply this number by 110 million. Will get a result of 76.2 million.

Of course, this is Charlie’s previous method of asking Zheng Jianguo to roughly calculate his wealth. The real number has to be multiplied by the number 116210295, so the result is 746.07 million, plus the investment of 318 million US dollars. The scale is about 1.064 billion.

This is a huge amount of money that can be placed anywhere in the world. However, considering the size of the oil company that Zheng Jianguo covets, the money is used to absorb 5% of either Ashland or Philip. , Can be regarded as more than enough.

It’s just that Charlie knew that Zheng Jianguo would not put more profit, and gave up borrowing money in order to seek stability, not to mention that he even thought about the collateral for borrowing money: "Boss, you can borrow money first. Mortgage the shares you want to buy to the bank. Considering that most banks now only give 70% of the market value of the collateral, then BOSS you can take 1 billion stocks to mortgage 700 million, which is no problem.

But in this case, there is a little hidden danger, that is, you need to let people in the bank know what you are doing. However, I think that when we acquire a scale of $1 billion, even if the oil company has not discovered it, then these financial institutions should also Will analyze the trading volume of these two stocks—"

"Wall Street financial institutions will follow up, right?"

Zheng Jianguo's heart moved. If he was still thinking about borrowing money from the bank, how could he borrow money without anything, but forgot the stocks he bought. If he thinks about it this way, his thinking will quickly spread out: "1 billion U.S. dollar stocks can be mortgaged for 700 million U.S. dollars, then the stocks purchased for 700 million U.S. dollars can be mortgaged again for 490 million, and then 490 million can be borrowed for 343 million U.S. dollars, so the loan is 200 million. 40 million, 168 million, 117 million?

Up to now, I have borrowed a total of 2.058 billion yuan, which is almost 3 billion U.S. dollars including my own 1 billion. With such an order of magnitude of funding, how can the stocks of these two oil companies return to their original market value?But for such a scale of borrowing, the interest alone would cost hundreds of millions of dollars—"

After thinking about this idea in his mind, Zheng Jianguo couldn't help turning his head and looking at Charlie: "Charlie, your bank's loan interest is 19%?"

"The short-term loan is 19% in half a year, and the long-term loan is about 24%—"

Charlie nodded and said that at the beginning of June 1980, the benchmark savings interest rate in the United States was as high as 17%, which means that if you find a bank to deposit money, you will only enjoy a higher discount than this number: " This year, the oil contract has risen by almost one-fifth, so central banks around the world have raised their benchmark interest rates. The Fed has increased the interest rate from 11% last year to 17% now—"

Zheng Jianguo appeared in a daze. It was only after he bought the oil contract that he knew how high prices affected the economy. In addition, after making the decision to attack the oil contract, he learned a lot of this knowledge. Controlling the scale of credit can curb inflation caused by rising oil prices-if you run out of money, you won't push prices up, right?

Looking at Zheng Jianguo in silence, Charlie glanced at the nurse who was looking at him from afar, and then said: "BOSS, considering my relationship with the bank, if I borrow money at this exchange rate, I can get 0.005. % Commission, if you mind—"

"According to the requirements, I can’t let myself take advantage of it and lose money, but if you can trust me, I think you can also take the money out and follow the operation. You can’t eat the meat, but you still have the soup. It's okay—"

Zheng Jianguo shook his head. The reason why he would use Charlie was that after making his own money, he ran to himself to deliver the car as soon as he made his own money, and he gave him a third of the commission. A little gift, which means that his emotional intelligence is at least 70 points or more: "Of course, if you can make money and eat meat, then I don't mind—"

"Hehe, BOSS, that's what I think, I plan to—"

Charlie has never regarded Zheng Jianguo as a fool. At most, he had the idea of ​​underestimating him at that time. But this idea also disappeared after the other party switched from a gold contract to an oil contract, knowing that he could become a multimillionaire undercover. It is likely to rely on Zheng Jianguo, and now I am not expected to wait until: "I plan to borrow some money to eat some meat behind your ass with you, then I will close all oil contracts when I go to work in the afternoon?"

"Let's close the position. It is better not too late to absorb the stocks of these two companies after closing the position."

Zheng Jianguo nodded his head before talking about the kung fu, the figure of Alfonso appeared in the distance, walked up to him with curiosity and looked at Charlie, and said: "Zheng, your game console is now developed, right?"

"Okay, then I'll go first, and I'll contact later—"

Charlie glanced at Alfonso and said, Zheng Jianguo nodded and watched the former leave. After turning around, he said, "I gave them a suggestion. It should be a project now, right? Game console development is not as good as you thought. Hurry up, if you are working hard now, it would be nice to have a construction machine at the end of the year—"

"Well, then I'll be eagerly waiting."

Alfonso nodded and looked around, winking vaguely at him and said, "I'll come as soon as I go. If someone asks you, I'll say I'm in the laboratory."

"No problem~"

He waved his hand, and Zheng Jianguo watched this man leave with a smile. He also looked at the watch on his wrist. In order to wait for Charlie to rest in the locker room, now Alfonso is lazy and can't he run around?

So Zheng Jianguo thought about it and went to the telephone at the service desk. After picking it up, he found out Augustus’s number and dialed it. He didn’t want to hear the number of the phone ringing and no one answered it, so he saw Director Nathan. Appeared at the door of the emergency room, and beckoned at him: "Zheng, where is Alfonso, come here and go--"

"Crack."

The probe put the phone back, Zheng Jianguo quickly arrived at the door of the emergency room, and saw that Nathan had found an emergency bed and pushed it out. At this moment, he saw Pliny appear from the locker room and immediately grabbed his strong man and said: " Pliny, there is a patient here—"

Soon, as the patient moved into the emergency room and Alfonso hadn't returned yet, Zheng Jianguo was rarely busy, and followed Pliny and Nathan to the operating room before making a start. It was already 3:30 in the afternoon.

On the TV hanging in front of the service desk, the male host was saying something: “Behind me, a large tree forest was pushed down one by one, and there was a layer of volcanic ash that could not reach ankles on the ground. We stood You can also feel a rush of steaming heat here, it's too hot here—"

"That's 100 degrees Fahrenheit, right?"

Ma Niweng said after watching Zheng Jianguo's appearance, Zheng Jianguo just glanced at the TV set and said: "I think there are 105. I hope he will not stay there for too long, otherwise he should call the rescue helicopter— —"

"Zheng, I saw that the Republic also boycotted the Moscow Olympics?"

After appearing next to the service desk, Alfonso looked at Zheng Jianguo and said, the latter nodded and said: "For a researcher, I think it is not appropriate to politicize the Olympic Movement, but considering that people have been born Since I grew up eating the grains of this land and drinking the water of this land, we should also take responsibility for this land. For this reason, I think the Republic’s boycott is correct, because the Soviets are invading Afghanistan. ——"

"Zheng, you are a doctor, you shouldn't be involved in these things."

Alfonso glanced at Zheng Jianguo and shook his head. The latter also smiled and did not speak. The Soviet war in Afghanistan is considered to be over long ago. To be precise, there is basically no suspense in the war between these two countries. Afghanistan is being invaded. In the next two days, he captured the capital and fostered his cronies.

Only after fostering up its own cronies, the Soviets did not launch a war with their cronies as agents as their mainstay. Instead, they still personally attacked the hostile forces. So at this time, the 100,000 troops that were dispatched at the beginning of the war are still facing The guerrillas are everywhere.

"It's still nine and a half years--"

This thought flashed in his mind, Zheng Jianguo was not disgusted with Alfonso’s kindness. Doctors generally had a high empathy. In their eyes, there are only two kinds of people in the world, those who are not sick and those who have already. Nationality, skin color, etc. are secondary factors, and of course certain normal people-mixed with Alfonso are not excluded.

The reason why Zheng Jianguo took the Soviets to heart was not because of the Soviet oil reserves. According to the published data, the entire oil reserves of the discovered oil fields were about 57 billion barrels.

In terms of reserve rankings alone, the Soviets are ranked seventh in the world after Venezuela and the oil country in the Middle East, accounting for 5.7% of the world's proven reserves.

However, considering that the Soviets are accustomed to concentrating their efforts to do big things, its oil export volume in 1979 has become the world's second largest after Saudi Arabia and before Iran.

Iran has been sanctioned since the beginning of the year. Oil exports will definitely drop sharply this year. Needless to say, Saudi Arabia is twice as much as the Soviets, and the Soviets are twice as many as Iran. As for the subsequent vote, it can be ignored. Excluding.

The reserves are not many and the export volume is so large. Then Zheng Jianguo thought with his toes, and he could guess that the Soviets would definitely take advantage of the rising oil prices to start construction and increase exports in order to take advantage of the amount of foreign exchange, and this is also his shorting. The main reason for the oil contract: "Amplify the influence of the Soviet expansion of the oil extraction industry on investors."

Of course, if the Soviets took advantage of the high oil prices to expand production capacity to make money, then Zheng Jianguo’s sniper would almost certainly cost him even his grandmother. After all, the main force in the long oil contract at this time was based on hot money. The Lord’s rich people all over the world, this group of people’s views on oil prices are similar to his previous views, the higher the better.

However, considering the economic impact of high oil prices, developed countries in Europe and America, which are plagued by inflation and stagflation, have become the main force in trying to reduce oil prices. Zheng Jianguo believes that if he releases the news of graphene batteries, this group of people will definitely Will follow up immediately-hydropower, wind power, thermal power, the channels for electricity are much easier than oil.

However, Zheng Jianguo did not expect to find that oil companies were undervalued before shorting oil contracts. The focus of attention has changed from oil contracts to oil stocks, so he confirmed that even Charlie agreed with his ideas. , He immediately decided to go to the stock market to turn around.

And to take out all his net worth, Zheng Jianguo, who has a clear mouth, is still a little worried. As Charlie comes to the transaction call and requires a password input, he enters the transaction password for closing the position and confirms the oil contract in his hand. When I started to sell, the anxiety in my heart completely disappeared: "Let’s see Charlie’s ability now—"

"Zheng, why did you start paying attention to oil stocks--"

After eating at noon the next day, when Zheng Jianguo went to the service desk and switched to the financial channel with the remote control, Ma Niwung had a pair of big watery eyes, and the former looked at the obviously strange Bernard beside her. De, then smiled: "Hi, Bernard, why is your face a little red?"

"Oh, ah, my face, um—it's too hot, yes, it's too hot~"

Incoherent gestures, Bernard looked at Ma Niweng and Zheng Jianguo with a smile on his face. The latter looked at the two men thoughtfully, and Yang flashed in his mind. What Na had said before, nodded and smiled: "It's really hot--"

"Zheng, have you started to pay attention to stocks? Which ones do you want to buy? Or is your game company going to IPO?"

With the voice, Alfonso appeared next to the service desk with a cup of coffee, and after watching the various stock prices scrolled on the TV, Zheng Jianguo's eyes were firmly nailed to the host’s report: "Ash Lan Company’s stock rose by 28 cents, an increase from yesterday's—"

"Ring Ling Ling--"

Sure enough, when he saw what he wanted, Zheng Jianguo's attention was concentrated. Only when the phone on the service desk rang and he wanted to amplify the sound of the TV, Bernard, who had already picked up the phone, looked at him. "Zheng? Zheng is here, where are you? Oh, Zheng's friend—"

"my friend?"

Even when he watched the TV host talk about Philip Oil stocks, Zheng Jianguo was distracted by Bernard’s voice, and then remembered that when he called this person yesterday, Bernard had already called. Handed it over: "Zheng, your friend said something was wrong with you—"

"Hi--"

After answering the call with a smile on his face, Zheng Jianguo also greeted him, but an extremely strange voice came from the microphone: "Zheng, I am at the door of your hospital, and Augustus asked me to give you a ride A ticket to "Les Miserables"—"