I’m in Hollywood - Chapter 372
[Chapter 369 We are all good people]
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When most people still have a negative attitude about whether Iraq will invade Kuwait, starting at 6:00 am on August 1, Kuwait time, Iraq assembled eight combat divisions on the Iraq-Kuwait border In just one day, the attack formation was rapidly launched, and the radio communication that was in a silent state also began to send encrypted messages intensively.
The U.S. side, who watched it all through military spy satellites, realized that Saddam really seemed to have something to do.
But it was too late. The Pentagon only had time to send a special war warning to the Kuwaiti authorities. At one o’clock in the morning on August 2, Kuwait local time, with Saddam’s order, Iraqi troops of 100,000 crossed the Iraq-Korea border like a tide. , rolled into Kuwait, and the news of the war spread around the world in less than an hour, shocking the world.
At the moment when the war broke out, it happened to be 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time on August 1st.
Before the close of the day, well-informed investment institutions seized the last opportunity to start frantically entering the market, and large purchase orders hit the crude oil futures market. In just two or two hours before the close, the price of crude oil rose by 0.7 US dollars. Prices closed at $21.6, up 3%.
However, for speculators who have invested huge sums of money in the crude oil futures market during this period, this is just the beginning. A big door has been opened, and some people have stepped into heaven and others into hell.
When the war started, everyone in Eric’s team breathed a sigh of relief. Although there were a lot of doubtful thoughts in their hearts, after more than a month, everyone finally slept well. A certain corner of the Persian Gulf was booming. Inside the Sixty Soho hotel suite.
Eric also slept deeply with his arms around the little girl.
New York midnight.
It happened to be dawn in the Persian Gulf.
The Iraqi army took only eight hours to occupy the entire territory of Kuwait. After seventeen hours, the fighting was completely over. Saddam announced to the world that Kuwait was incorporated into Iraq, becoming the nineteenth province of Iraq, and the Kuwaiti head of state. Emir and his family fled to Saudi Arabia by helicopter.
New York, Thursday, August 2.
Rest well all night.
Eric and Drew had breakfast together, and met Chris and the trading team at nine o’clock. At this time, everyone in the team looked at Eric with surprise and doubts, but Eric did not. Didn’t mean to explain it to anyone.
In a cafe on the street of Sixth Avenue, Eric and Chris sat opposite to each other, and the little girl with the toad mirror was boringly stirring the coffee in front of her. There was still an hour before the crude oil futures trading opened, and everyone was there. Take a short break here.
“Dad took the plane back to the farm in Maryland at ten o’clock. Emily had already taken him to the airport. He also said that he didn’t want to see you again, the little bastard who made him worry for a month.” He said with a smile, but the doubts in his eyes did not hide at all.
Eric smiled and said, “Let’s get down to business.”
Chris didn’t seem to want to get to the bottom of it.
Continue: “Okay, what are your plans for the next step?”
Eric shrugged: “I have done everything I can, and the next stage is for you professionals.”
Chris nodded, Eric What he did was to smash all his chips into the crude oil futures market under huge pressure for a month. This is not an easy task. Chris has no idea at all. Where did Eric get it from? A hunch, a month ago, the Kuwait war had no clue at all.
Now that Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait has become a reality, the two countries account for a quarter of the proven oil reserves. Once the two countries merged, with Saddam’s policy of reducing crude oil production and raising prices, international crude oil prices soared in Inevitably.
“Then you should give me a general plan, for example, when will we quit this game?”
Eric looked at the traffic outside the window, pondered for a while, and then said: “Three months, we three months Clearance and exit.”
Chris showed an interested look, leaned his arms on the table and leaned closer, and said in a low voice, “Three months? Eric, can you tell me what you have foreseen this time?”
Eric said in a low voice with a dignified expression: “I have a premonition that on the last day of October, there will be many ghosts and ghosts appearing in the streets and alleys of the Federation, and they will steal countless candy from thousands of households.”
Drew, who had pricked up his ears and listened intently, burst out laughing.
Chris also rolled his eyes.
After making a joke, Eric spread his hands: “Chris, I’m not a magician, really. So don’t ask me what I have a hunch, luck is a big factor in being able to bet on the situation this time.”
“Okay. Well, then I won’t ask, I will follow your arrangement and leave within three months,” Chris said, and began to concentrate on the snacks and coffee in front of him.
Eric was also secretly relieved. He didn’t know how to explain this to Chris at all, and it seemed that he could never explain it.
Because the electronic trading system was only applied to the futures market in 1992, the current crude oil futures trading is still dominated by manual operations.
At 10 a.m., after the New York Mercantile Exchange crude oil futures opened, prices began to rise rapidly in a very steep curve.
Eric and Xiao Nizi walked around the trading floor full of people, and they quickly couldn’t stand it and backed out.
As said in the cafe, he can do it in July, and now everything can be left to Chris and the trading team to handle.
Returning to the hotel with Drew, Eric was stopped by the waitress at the front desk as soon as he entered the lobby: “Mr. Williams, please wait a moment.”
Eric looked over suspiciously, and the waitress sent a phone number full of phone numbers. The post-it note was handed over: “This is the number of calls that came to you after you went out in the morning. They said that your mobile phone and the room’s landline couldn’t get through?”
“Oh, I turned it off to prevent being disturbed. ,” Eric explained, took the note and thanked him, and went back to the room with Drew.
“Eric, whose call is it?” In the elevator, the little girl leaned over her head and looked at the post-it note in Eric’s hand.
“Over in Los Angeles. A bunch of old men.” Eric said lightly.
Drew saw names such as Rupert Murdoch, Michael Eisner, Steve Ross and others.
He looked back bored.
Back in the room, Eric connected the phone line and dialed the phone number in his hand.
As soon as the other end of the phone was connected, Eric immediately became famous and made a sad look: “Mr. Murdoch, I’m sorry, I was in a bad mood before and unplugged the phone line… No, no, no. It doesn’t matter. It’s
hard to say now…” A
few minutes later, Eric just hung up the phone when he caught a glimpse of the little girl on the sofa rolling around with a pillow in her arms.
Eric put his hand in front of his mouth and made a zipper motion, and the girl nodded sensible immediately.
The trading team hired by Eric has signed a strict confidentiality agreement before, and they will also receive huge commissions from this transaction. As beneficiaries, these people will definitely not disclose the detailed process of this transaction, Jeffrey Not to mention father and son, other than that.
Until the detailed process of this transaction, only Drew was alone.
Although Eric knew that Xiao Nizi would definitely not betray himself, he still explained it at this time, lest the girl accidentally say something was missed.
With Drew’s shrewdness, Eric believed that he was just an action, and the girl knew what to do.
After explaining, Eric dialed again and called back one by one. Although many people knew that Eric had made a heavy bet in the futures market, but whether it was bullish or short, these people did not know.
After all, before again, because of the soaring crude oil prices for a few months, more speculators chose to short than long, because even if Iraq deployed a large number of troops on the Iraqi-Korean border, most people still did not believe that the Middle East would break out The war, unfortunately, this time Saddam’s behavior exceeded the expectations of a large number of people.
After spending some time answering the calls one by one, Eric went back to the sofa to turn on the TV and selected the news channel. At this time, the news of the Middle East was being broadcast live on the TV. Drew got tired of it and said with a smile: “Ai Rick, I think there must be no hiding it.”
“It’s just delaying the news,” Eric said with a smile: “Those are old foxes, it’s impossible to hide them.” The
girl made a face: “Then you just paid…”
“In case they get the news too much Excited, what should I do if I have a heart attack, it looks like I’m actually a good person,” Eric made a joke, but the
girl laughed a few times and said, “I’m also a good person.”
After five and a half Hours of trading, at 2:30 in the afternoon, the price of crude oil futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange soared from $21.6 at the opening to $23.5, an increase of a crazy 8.8%, and Eric’s account had a surplus of $600 million that day.
During dinner, Chris informed Eric the good news, but Eric could see a touch of sadness on Chris’ face, and after asking, Chris confided the truth: “I was in a Morgan Stanley store. A good friend called me after the market closed and asked me about the situation. I consulted him some time ago, and he knew that I was speculating in oil futures.”
“Huh?” Eric asked suspiciously. You know, Chris just said the beginning.
Chris said in a somber
tone: “A senior executive at Morgan Stanley embezzled $120 million from the headquarters to short crude oil futures, which is also ten times leveraged. After the close of the afternoon… jumped off the building.”
Reese adjusted his mood and said, “Eric, I don’t know how you made your judgment this time. I’ll assume that you did it because you were absolutely sure. But in the future, don’t ever do it. Play like this again.”
Eric nodded solemnly: “I promise.”
Chris got up and patted Eric on the shoulder, and was about to leave when Drew burst in with a lot of shopping bags. , shouted: “Eric, when I was passing Fifth Avenue, I saw someone jumped off the building and fell to the ground. It’s disgusting. I heard that several people have jumped off the building.”
said the little girl, Balabala. After finishing, I noticed that the faces of the two men in the room turned a little unsightly, and immediately stuck out their tongues, shrank their necks and slipped into their room.
Chris shook his head and said, “I don’t like this girl, she’s surly, and she’s too cool.”
Eric glanced at Drew’s door and said, “If it wasn’t for Drew to connect me and Jeffrey , there will be no me now, and there will be no fireflies.”
Chris also obviously knew a lot about what happened at the time, and shrugged: “Okay, just pretend I didn’t say it.”
“Okay, Chris , she’s just a child.”
“It will grow up,” Chris shook his head again: “If you’re not 100% sure you can take care of her, let it go as soon as possible.”
“I know,” Eric smiled, I kept sending Chris to the elevator door before returning to the room.
The little girl has returned to the living room at this time, sitting cross-legged on the sofa angrily: “I heard it all.”
Eric stepped forward and pinched the girl’s face: “Did Chris still wrong you? ”
Hmph,” the girl turned her head, trying to shake Eric’s hand away.
“Chris has a colleague who just jumped off the building in the afternoon. You were so happy just now, do you expect him to say something nice about you?”
“But I just don’t like him talking about me like that. Eric, do you think I… …I’m that kind of person?”
Eric put the girl in his arms and hugged lovingly: “You are you, never mind what others say, you will always be my little girl.”
“Well, “Little Nizi put her chin on Eric’s shoulder emotionally: “Eric, I love you.”
“I know.”
“When did you start loving me?”
“This is a bit difficult, UU reading www.sonicmtl.com” Eric pinched on the girl’s slender waist and joked, “Look, you’ve gained weight recently, I don’t like little fat girls.”
“No,” the girl immediately dissatisfied Hammered on Eric’s back: “I weigh myself every week, and I’m not fat at all.”
Drew said, the body sitting on Eric’s knee leaned back slightly, lifted the hem of his small T-shirt to reveal his flat belly, and twisted conspicuously: “Hey, look.”
“Well, little black girl .
,” Eric joked again, it’s been a month, and the girl’s complexion on the beach in Hawaii has turned a lot whiter, but the overall color is not as fair as before.
“Don’t call me little black girl,” the girl said angrily, bumping her head against Eric’s chest.
“Okay, get up, let’s finish dinner, what do you want to eat at night?”
“Well, let me think about it…”
…
Before going to bed at night, Eric had already heard no less than ten because today’s crude oil prices are so high The news of jumping off the building after losing everything.
Although he didn’t show it on his face, he was still laughing with Xiao Nizi, but Eric was still quite touched. The futures market is a gambling market, and all contracts are two-way. If your bet goes up, someone will buy it accordingly. Down, because the price of crude oil rose sharply today, Eric made a profit of 600 million US dollars in one day, which means that someone lost 600 million US dollars.
Of course, those who are desperate to gamble their entire worth in and lose everything are not worthy of sympathy.
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