Start with a Cat and Mouse Game

Chapter 401: In a crisis, money is just paper

"Why are they here?"

Immediately, I realized that this is not to say that it is robbing UBS business, but I also want to grab the business of local tyrants.

It is not that the United States does not have oil fields, but the underground reserves are not much worse than that of the desert area, which ranks third in the country.

Not mining at this time is just taking advantage of the low oil prices and wanting to use up other people's first.

As long as the oil purchased by Li Changheng is not shipped out of the U.S. and used immediately, the big U.S. oil companies will not mind swallowing this billion-dollar contract.

Moreover, they can swallow the contract and use the contract to do a three-party or even four-party business with desert regions or countries in South America.

Because the crude oil at this time has not exceeded 2 US dollars in ten years, even if it has happened once in 67 years, there is only a 4-month oil embargo, but the oil price still does not exceed 2 US dollars.

In addition, the world's fuel consumption does not increase much every year.

Many U.S. countries even believe that the oil price of US$2 will continue to grow old.

Therefore, the cars designed by Americans never consider displacement.

Although the desert tyrants had money at this time, they did not have the money yet, and they could actually reclaim the land in the desert and build a modern city in the sand.

So no one will give up one, just one person wants to buy the country's crude oil imports, one-thirtieth of the super customers.

Who wants to make more extra money, does it depend on the face of the person who gets the contract?

What's worse for all oil-producing countries is that when everyone has no way of predicting or predicting that there will be an oil crisis in two and a half years.

Experts, everyone knows that someone like Li Changheng who buys oil can't always exist in the warehouse.

Because after 3 years he must use it or sell it.

Otherwise, the quality of crude oil will decline, or even expire, leading to a sharp drop in value.

So instead of grabbing the contract at this time, put the money in your pocket first, and when Li Changheng starts selling oil in the future, will he squeeze the oil market share?

Of course, those who know this are not fools. Everyone guesses, and mistakenly thinks that Li Changheng is optimistic about the development of the United States.

Only then will the oil bet for a year or two, or three years later, the price of oil will rise.

What's more, what Li Changheng didn't know was that he made such a big net worth in less than three years. To many people, he was either a super genius or a lucky person.

So no matter what the reason is, before he fails, many, many people are willing to believe and are willing to follow him to make money.

But for oil-producing countries whose oil is not ten years at all and can be extracted in thirty years, they cannot bet on the future economic situation like Li Changheng.

Not to bet on the future international situation.

Since the oil production can't be finished in a short time, of course, the business is done first, and the money is the right choice to enter your pocket.

Only those Americans who see this point will disregard etiquette and business ethics to grab business directly.

Because for a consortium that unites, everyone holds each other's shares, or even cross-holding.

Oil is not just their only profit point.

For consortia like Citi, as long as they get the contract and go to the oil-producing country to buy oil, there is no need to pay directly.

Is it okay to give you military equipment, civilian equipment, or other goods to offset it?

no?

If it doesn't work, I will buy other people's. Anyway, there are so many oil-producing countries, even red polar bears are fine.

In an instant, Americans made money, expanded exports, and even imposed some additional conditions on some small countries.

It is equivalent to the fact that Li Changheng’s US$100 million has driven companies of all sizes in the US$1 billion industry chain to make profits.

This is more profitable than simply buying and selling oil.

Li Changheng, who wants to understand this, his first idea is to push the responsibility out, and then lower the price and raise the conditions.

Anyway, how can it be beneficial to oneself.

Therefore, he frowned at UBS's vice president and asked Rand Van Gundy, his account manager at UBS.

"How do you do your confidentiality measures?"

"this,,,."

Rand was shocked. The super VIP questioned UBS, which protects customer secrets as a way of survival. Failure to keep the secrets was tantamount to slapping them in the face and cursing them as waste.

"I promise UBS is definitely the most stringent bank in the world and the most rigorous confidential procedures."

Li Changheng shook his head, looked at the desert tyrants and said, "Gentlemen, the people from Citigroup are here."

damn it.

Rand and the desert tyrants scolded in their hearts.

Come here at this time, and it's clear that I'm here to grab business.

After discussing with others, Prince Nasser said with a serious expression, "Sir, we are confident that the price will satisfy you."

Unfortunately, the price is not what Li Changheng values ​​most, because for him, there is no difference between $1.8 and $2.

What he wants is the spot, and he must make the transaction by the end of April, before the tax declaration deadline.

Otherwise, the tax of tens of millions of dollars will be given to the Americans, and if the tens of millions of dollars are bought for oil, the profit will be 4 times or 5 times in two and a half years.

And once the U.S. and England have an oil shortage, the U.S. dollar and the British pound are paper, and oil is wealth and power.

In addition, once the U.S. dollar is decoupled from gold this year, while gold is soaring, there is no need for the desert tyrants to unite. Taking advantage of the opportunity of the U.S. people need a commodity to replace gold and the U.S. dollar, they will unite and negotiate terms with the U.S. people.

Crude oil will definitely rise.

Even if the increase is not large, it only reaches 3 US dollars, that is 50% of the income.

After thinking for a while, Li Changheng thought that he still had $170 million in cash in UBS.

Looking at Annie, who deliberately followed behind, asked her to receive the people from Citigroup first.

Then he took Prince Nasser to the side and whispered, "As long as you promise me to ship 100 million US dollars worth of crude oil to England for storage before April 25, the contract is yours."

Nasser looked at Li Changheng incredulously, and then asked joyfully and anxiously, "What about the price?"

"How about you give me 7.5 million tons of light sweet crude oil?"

When Nasser heard this number, he was immediately blinded.

One ton of high-quality crude oil is about 7.2 barrels, and the lower-medium-quality crude oil is about 7.3 barrels.

This kind of arithmetic is just for Li Changheng, just counting seconds in his head.

But for Nasser, he couldn't figure it out by giving him paper and pen~lightnovelpub.net~ Li Changheng smiled at the corner of his mouth and snapped his fingers at Harry Hart.

Soon 5 handheld computing appeared in front of the local tyrants.

Leading them back to the reception room, Li Changheng smiled and sat on the sofa drinking coffee.

After looking at UBS's Rand and Nasser, they calculated the price and found that the price was 1.85185 per barrel. They suddenly frowned and hesitated.

The price is not the lowest, but it is also not high.

But in the face of an order of 100 million US dollars and 54 million barrels, there are still people outside who want to grab business.

Nasser and others decided to accept the price without hesitation.

But a full 7.5 million tons of crude oil was shipped to London, and time was a little tight.

According to the calculation of Suez tankers at this time, most of them are 100,000 tons. If you want to complete the order, you have to use 75 large cruise ships.

"The freight, Sir."