Chapter 323 Disaster Wealth

"Are you joking?"

Raymond is now the person in charge of Plutos' tens of billions of assets, and Daniel has rarely done this kind of stock market speculation recently, and he has not been in touch with his old business for a while. This time, if the opportunity was not very suitable, and the new investment in MGM and DD Animation, Daniel would also owe a lot of debt. Although there is no problem of insufficient funds for the operation of the entire system, it is definitely what he is willing to do to alleviate the debt pressure.

For Daniel's "mother-in-law", the experienced Raymond is really puzzled.

He didn't know if Daniel was really joking, or really felt that it was not good to make disaster money.

In fact, for the speculative work that Raymond was engaged in before, hurricanes, wars, Hainan, oil spills, economic crises, etc., all kinds of disasters that may make a large number of people want to jump off the building are the ones that made him rich opportunity. He has been engaged in this work since the Asian financial crisis in the mid-1990s, and his qualifications are not deep. This is why Daniel was able to hire him to be his investment manager at the beginning-the price is not high! However, it is clear that this young low-level employee who previously worked for Goldman Sachs is quite talented, and now he is on an equal footing with Goldman Sachs.

"Well, I know it's a bit of 'crocodile tears,' but when you think about the people who might lose their homes, their loved ones, their lives in a hurricane, it always feels like it's not a good thing for us to take advantage of that. Even if we want Earn more and expect stronger hurricanes."

"Oh," Raymond stopped tapping on the keyboard, "you went to Africa and seemed to be more emotional. Daniel, you should know, regardless of what you and I think. Hurricanes will happen or will happen, ours The will doesn't have any effect on it. Then any consequences it causes have nothing to do with us. We are just purely investing. We see that the price of crude oil may fluctuate, so I put billions of dollars into it- —Although I have absolutely no idea how to defend against the risks of doing so. But I decided to trust you, after all, you have been right all along. Well, can you break it down with me? I really want to know, if 2003 You have inside information about the Iraq war. So this time, do you have a connection with God? Why do you firmly believe that the hurricane will have such a huge impact on oil-producing areas and refineries?"

"It's going to hit the Gulf of Mexico, and the oil fields on the Gulf of Mexico are critical to the United States, and the hurricane center says it's going to have shocking winds." Daniel saw Raymond looking at him disapprovingly. If he had heard this answer, he wouldn't have believed it. He shrugged his shoulders, "Well, I actually dreamed about it. You know, I dreamed about it when 911 came."

"This is real?"

Raymond was dumbfounded, "You really only took the current measures because you dreamed about this disaster?"

"Yeah, capricious isn't it? But my intuition helped me a lot.

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"Well--"

Raymond didn't know what to say after 9/11. Daniel was confirmed to have had a hunch, and he left it in his private article, plus an interview with "News". Most people believe that Daniel received an oracle at that moment. However, the organization of scientists believes that such so-called predictions are extremely coincidental. People often have some ideas or so-called "precognitions", but very few of them will become reality. Generally speaking, those predictions that do not come true are unknown, and occasionally a blind cat hits a dead mouse, and it will be widely reported.

Therefore, this in itself did not cause him much trouble—of course, Daniel is now on the list in many supernatural inventory.

As Daniel expected. The hurricane ravaged the Gulf of Mexico, shutting down half of the oil fields on the Gulf of Mexico. Seven large refineries and a key oil transshipment facility were forced to close.

On August 29, the price of crude oil futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange rose sharply at the opening.

Raymond was trading at $65.8 a barrel a few days ago. Buying 20 million barrels - it's not that he can't raise more property, but this time is completely different from the Iraq war. Once Daniel buys too much, it may hinder this wave of rising. In half a day, the price per barrel rose by 4.67 US dollars. When Raymond rose to 4 US dollars, he immediately sold and went short.

On the 31st, the President announced the use of the strategic oil reserve, and the price of crude oil fell in response to the sound—but the decline was limited. The oil reserve needs to be compensated. As long as the supply remains unchanged, the greater the demand, the higher the price, that is for sure. Therefore, buying up is still the mainstream, but it does not exceed the price that Raymond sold empty orders on the 29th. After a wave of impulsive rises, it still ushered in a decline after all.

But it was not until September 2 that the International Energy Agency announced that 26 member states unanimously agreed to release 2 million barrels per day of strategic oil reserves from the market for a period of one month to ease the possible demand crisis. This completely destroyed the confidence of funds in crude oil prices, and crude oil prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange fell accordingly.

Raymond immediately bought to close the short position.

After 5 days, this transaction earned Plutos nearly 400 million net income, and Raymond couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief after finishing everything.

Daniel didn't stay here all the time. Everything was led by Raymond. He came here on purpose after finishing this operation today. Now that he saw Raymond losing his strength, he couldn't help laughing at him, "Raymond, obviously You don't have the quality to do this job anymore, tsk tsk, money and a comfortable life have corroded your will."

Of course, all he got in exchange was a supercilious look from Raymond.

"Seriously, Daniel, if you have any dreams in the future, you must tell me, such as the financial crisis or something."

"Haha, do you really think that I raised more than one billion dollars to do this because of a dream? I'm not crazy, and I'm not at the point where I need to gamble like crazy," Daniel couldn't let himself be A magician, at least he can't be sure about this matter, although he is not too worried that he will be arrested and investigated. After all, in the United States, it is really difficult for a billionaire to be secretly imprisoned by some organization unless he commits suicide. — This is a country built on dollars and rich people, things hurt people, no one will allow this to happen.

"The hurricane center is trustworthy, and obviously, neither Louisiana nor Mississippi, nor even Alabama, nor Florida, actually have a complete hurricane contingency plan. Once it does, as the hurricane center said, this is a record-breaking hurricane. , the possible influence and destructive power can be imagined. And - the price of oil is always easy to be manipulated."

All words are less powerful than the last sentence.

Raymond understands how dirty the transactions behind money and oil are. It is completely within reason for the oligarchs to take advantage of this opportunity to manipulate the stock market and grab wealth. If Daniel gets inside information, knows that someone is doing it, and even knows when the president will Announcing the use of strategic reserves, knowing when the International Energy Agency will announce the expansion of supply - then, it is only natural to be able to accurately grasp the time of entry and exit.

It's just that if everything is as he imagined, then Daniel's connection with the American political and business circles may far exceed his imagination. (to be continued)