Chapter 197: Another Storm (I)

PS: It's a little busy, most of the rest time stays in the hospital, there is no conditional code word there, the update is slow, I'm really sorry!

Katrina didn't just bring turmoil in the oil market, she didn't destroy only one-third of the oil production capacity of New Orleans and the United States, when Park Young-joon was immersed in shock and some inexplicable psychology woven by fear, excitement and other emotions, and began to pay close attention to the fluctuations of crude oil prices, her destructive power began to spread to a wider field after the capture of crude oil futures.

Transportation, Insurance, Construction, Metal Futures...... As for the entire virtual economy market, the day after Katrina landed in New Orleans, the three major U.S. stock indexes fell in response, and the electronic cards in the trading market were all green, reflecting people's miserable green and desperate faces.

The high risk of the virtual economy is clearly revealed at this moment, a natural disaster that occurred on the East Coast, but it was like a butterfly flapping its wings, spreading that ripple to the entire earth, of course, the most affected is the United States.

This hurricane has seriously exposed a series of problems in the US Government; Katrina landed in New Orleans on 29 September, but the Bush administration did not give a positive response until 3 September; since 1 September, New Orleans has been in a state of anarchy and chaos after the disaster, riots have occurred frequently, armed gangs have openly confronted the police in the city, wantonly burning, killing and looting, and the military control that should have been urgently initiated was only approved by the Bush administration on 3 September to require 7,000 soldiers to rush to the disaster area within 72 hours, and the delay in the response further aggravated the chaos of the situation, and all this was disclosed by the media。

After a short period of grief, public opinion began to enter into condemnation of the Bush administration.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Hear it straight from the horse's mouth. The NHC notified federal, state and local governments of the potential severe impact of the hurricane 56 hours before Katrina made landfall, but almost everyone agreed that the disaster was short-term and manageable...... The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) did not play its due role in the disaster, and five hours after the disaster, FEMA Commissioner Michael Brown asked for 1,000 rescuers to be dispatched to the disaster area within 48 hours. Ironically, President Bush, who was quite supportive of Michael Brown's work, did so on August 30, a day after the disaster. It was announced that he had ended his vacation at the Crawford Ranch in Texas. Returning home on Air Force One and circling over New Orleans to 'inspect' ......"

The on-screen report continued, and after glancing at the CNN logo above, Park Young-joon withdrew his gaze. Attention is no longer focused there. Thinking about things in a daze.

After Katrina landed. Time flew to September 3rd, and the excitement and excitement of the past few days seemed to still remain in the brain.

This hurricane may be a disaster for ordinary people. But for a small group of people, this so-called catastrophe is a great opportunity. In the past few days, he has seen oil futures prices rise seemingly endlessly, and nothing can stop them – Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan's call not to panic, the Bush administration's use of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help stalled crude oil processing plants resume production, and the efforts to ease market tensions are not working!

The news that one-third of production has been destroyed has no way to calm people down, and all gas stations in the United States are raising prices, and the increase in physical prices is reflected in the virtual economy, which is that the $ symbol is constantly tumbling.

It's like a huge snowball, every second, the funds in his hand are stronger, the so-called selling pressure is no longer gone, and there is no need to worry about the hedging plate, and the tentative sell orders are swept away by people like crazy.

He didn't know if the international speculators before the disaster were excited under this sudden "surprise", he only knew that his heart had been beating like a drum for the past few days.

It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and everyone believed that the boom in the oil market had arrived, and the so-called resistance level of $70 was easily broken, and $80 did not seem to be difficult.

This is the consensus of everyone, including him!

This psychology lasts until September 1st!

Watching the TV in silence, his eyes reflected the light of lightning outside the window, but he did not have any focus. It was raining heavily in New York, and outside a wide window on the side, the gloomy sky was low against the black sea, lightning and thunder roared, silver snakes danced wildly under the clouds, and the Statue of Liberty stood in the middle of a storm in the distance.

Another flash of light crossed the field of vision, Park Yingjun turned his head to look over there, he didn't know what to think, his expression was complicated for a moment, and then turned into a kind of helplessness with a little fear.

"Start selling!"

His ears seemed to echo in his ears on September 1, when he received a call from South Korea against the backdrop of everyone in the trade wailing and yelling with excitement, and Ahn Joon-hyuk's flat voice commanded, causing his blood to boil in the noise to drop to freezing point.

He didn't know what was going on, obviously the situation was very good, why did he suddenly want to throw it away?

He wanted to tell Junhyuk how hot crude oil futures are right now, but ...... He didn't have that courage......

No one knew the fear he felt when he found out on the exchange that day when he found out that NHC report that Katrina had landed in New Orleans. Limited magic can be summed up as talent, which can be admired and admired, but when this magic rises to the point where ordinary ideas are completely incomprehensible, it becomes fear, a source of terror.

Park Young-joon couldn't understand how Ahn Joon-hyuk was sure that Katrina would have such a huge impact today, because he was afraid of the unknown, and he was driven by that fear, he couldn't even raise the slightest idea of resistance, so he obediently complied, even if the benefits this time did not meet his expectations for the time being.

Then yesterday, he understood what to do.

On September 2, the 26 member countries of the International Energy Agency unanimously announced that they would put 2 million barrels of crude oil from the strategic reserve on the market every day for 30 days to help the U.S. government solve the oil crisis caused by Hurricane Katrina.

The public and public opinion have condemned the Bush administration's sluggish response to disaster relief measures, but they have failed to notice the results of the Bush administration's efforts in the more important energy and economic fields in the past few days...... While somewhat cold-blooded, from a national perspective, New Orleans was destroyed, hundreds of thousands of people trapped in rubble, and apparently did not restore one-third of the nation's oil capacity, as well as alleviate the virtual market more urgently.

But the most important thing for Park Young-joon is that he is in the United States, here in New York, and he has not received the slightest news about the actions of the International Energy Agency, while Ahn Joon-hyuk, who is far away in South Korea, made the corresponding decision a day in advance...... Perhaps, the decision was made earlier......

Some thoughts flowed through my mind, I couldn't tell whether I was excited or afraid, and my body shifted between hot and cold due to the fluctuations of my thoughts.

The TV is still playing, the sky outside the window is getting darker, Park Young-joon is still thinking, and on the other side of the world, in South Korea, Katrina's influence is limited to the nine-o'clock news and the reports of the three major political newspapers.

This is a hurricane that belongs to another field!

On September 3rd, after gradually conquering one of the singing programs of several major TV stations, the DVD of "No More Love" released for nearly a month finally ushered in an explosive period, and on the newly announced sales list, it exceeded 60,000 copies for the first time in sales to beat Baoer and MC Dream in the same period, and entered the top three of the monthly sales list, closely following Kim Jong Kook.

Although many media and fans of Kim Jong Kook, Boa, and MC Dream say that "No More Love" is an EP, and the price is cheap, so that it can form an advantage in later sales, and EP sales are not recorded in the list of the most authoritative record industry associations, but a comeback singer who has just come out of the trough can achieve such results, which is undoubtedly a miracle.

Such a miracle makes many people ashamed!

The above sentence is the headline of Yahoo Korea, which has been quite positive about all of J.H's coverage recently, and the writer said in the article: "...... the sales of "No More Love" is a successful counterattack by Baek Ji-young and Ahn Jun-hyuk! We look back at what has happened in the past nearly a month, or even a year, and its release has been questioned from the beginning, and we have received news from major record distribution companies that "No Love Anymore" has been rejected by many companies, and now, this achievement has slapped them hard!"

The report is not wrong, when the results of "No More Love" in Hanteo's August sales list were released, I don't know how many distribution companies that had rejected Baek Ji-young wanted to crash to death on the wall.

"No More Love" is priced at 9,000 won, and the sales of 60,000 are not a huge amount, and such sales are almost equivalent to the final sales, after all, Baek Ji-young has a poor foundation, and the record can be sold to this extent, which is already the result of publicity and hype squeezing all the potential. But in the current recession of the record industry, there are only a handful of singers who can sell this data throughout the year, not to mention the benefits that can be generated by the incalculable on-demand revenue, wireless revenue, and the huge popularity effect that can be brought about by this data.

But now, they can only be annoyed that when they came to the door for what was wrong with Baek Ji-young, they didn't even listen to the demo and refused without care, but now all the honor goes to the company called J.H, but they are so angry that they scratch their hair when they see the sales figures!

Stimulated by this sales, in the past half a month, the continuous crusade on whether the MV of "No More Love" violates ethics has also fallen silent for a while, and the fact has given all opponents a head-on blow, except for some people who are still crying out for moral corruption, the main media, which was originally attacked, is no longer able to raise its voice to question.

On the same day, following the last celebration dinner, J.H held a celebration press conference again to congratulate Baek Ji-young on the success of physical record sales.

However, what made the media more concerned was that not only Baek Ji-young and Ahn Joon-hyuk, who was the president of the company, were present at the press conference, but also another unfamiliar face, who was said to be J.H's newly signed director.

When they heard the host of the press conference introduce the identity of the other party, the ears of all the media in the audience pricked up.

Director?What does Ahn Joon-hyuk want to do?Songs have just made achievements in the field of songs, and he wants to get involved in film and television?(To be continued......