The two slept soundly until 9 o'clock in the morning the next day, and simply didn't go to the company when they saw the time.

Qin Lan propped up her body and went to the shower room to wash up, and then went to the vegetable market to buy vegetables, Guan Qiu relied for a while, got up to wash his face and brush his teeth, and then sat on the sofa and watched TV with his top body and big shorts.

The Athens Olympics are about to open, and the TV network has been full of news related to it in the past few days, and several stations have been tuned to talk about the preparation of athletes.

He chose the central two, and the reporter was interviewing the coach of the women's diving team outside the pre-competition training camp in Athens.

[Hello Coach Liu, in the final stage before the start of the competition, can you give us a brief introduction to the current preparation of athletes. 】

[Hello viewers in front of the TV, now the overall results of our team, including everyone's desire to fight, are very strong......]

Guan Qiu looked at it and suddenly thought of 2004 in his previous life.

In the previous life, China was a shining star in the Athens Olympics, Guo Jingjing, Liu Xiang, Wang Yifu, Zhang Ning, Zhang Yining, Tian Liang and other well-known athlete names all shined in this Olympic Games.

It's a pity that it's too late, if only I had won their advertising endorsement earlier, and put their ads on the homepage of 67.com, what kind of influential publicity is that?

Liu Xiang, in particular, had his influence until the 2008 Kyoto Olympics in China, before he faded out of the public eye due to pain.

In addition to Liu Xiang, the diving queen Guo Jingjing is also a living signboard......

Thinking of this, Guan Qiu slapped his thigh depressedly, "Damn, why didn't you think of it earlier!"

Just when Guan Qiu was depressed, there was a sound of footsteps outside the door, followed by the sound of the key turning on the security door.

The door opened, and it was not Qin Lan who went out to buy vegetables standing outside, but Pu Ruo.

Pu Ruo had just arrived home from a business trip and wanted to come back to change her clothes and go to work in the company, but she never expected that there was a man sitting on the sofa in the living room, which scared her.

However, after calming down, when he looked at it again, his face quickly darkened.

Guan Qiu didn't expect Pu Ruo to come back at this time, and he was embarrassed for a while.

The two of them stared at each other, and neither of them spoke.

In the end, Guan Qiu was thick-skinned, stood up and smiled awkwardly: "That...... You're back. ”

Pu Ruo, who came back to his senses, was going to leave, but after thinking about it, he still didn't leave.

After changing his shoes, he didn't look at Guan Qiu, and walked straight towards his bedroom.

When passing by Qin Lan's room, Yu Guang saw the messy sheets and the toilet paper that had not been picked up under the bed, and his brain made up the scene that happened in this room last night, and he couldn't help but "puff" in his heart: shameless!

"Bang-"

The door was slammed shut.

Guan Qiu touched his nose, then quickly entered the room to get dressed, and by the way, he cleaned up the sheets and the room again.

When he came out, Pu Ruo in the next room also happened to come out after changing his clothes.

A white short-sleeved jacket with small lapels, black cropped pants, and a pair of bright diamond crystal strap heels, the whole person looks beautiful and tall, and full of charm.

It's not good at all, and the face is cold, like counting nine cold winter ice cubes.

"Wow--" Pu Ruo didn't look at him, and walked towards the door with his high heels.

Guan Qiu stiffened his head and said, "That...... Wait a minute. ”

Pu Ruo stopped and said coldly: "Is there something wrong with you?"

Guan Qiu smiled dryly: "That ......"

He wanted to say that the Olympics were coming, but the Olympics had entered the countdown, and it was impossible to talk about cooperative endorsements now, so he was desperately thinking about the bits and pieces of his previous life in his mind.

It's best to have something to do with finance, otherwise with his simple character, he won't pay much attention to it at all.

This woman is too arrogant.

It's a pity that Guan Qiu doesn't understand finance at all, and the only thing closely related to his life is the price of the house and gasoline and diesel, so he asked: "That...... Do you know how much a liter of gasoline costs?"

"What the hell is this?" Although Pu Ruo was very angry in his heart, he was quite sensitive to these numbers, and said casually: "3 pieces 5 cents 8." ”

"Ah, it's gone up more than 3 cents. ”

Pu Ruo said impatiently: "What do you want to say?"

Guan Qiu didn't know what he wanted to say, it was just nonsense, and he said whatever he wanted, "Ah...... That one...... I just want to ask you, how much is a barrel of crude oil now?"

Pu Ruo's eyes became colder and colder, and he was also very disappointed in this man in his heart.

I only left for a day, and the two of them saw that the stitches came out like this.

Go to bed, go to bed, can't you just go to open a room, and you have to go to the market under her nose?

At this time, Pu Ruo regretted his decision to come to 67.com, replied with "34.19 US dollars", and planned to leave.

"It's only more than 34 yuan......" Guan Qiu didn't know how bad Pu Ruo's mood was at this time, and muttered in his mouth, "It shouldn't be!"

He remembers that in 2004 oil prices were so crazy that they even broke through the historic mark of $50. And the price of crude oil has always been inseparable from the war.

"Which major oil-producing country in the world is at war now?" Guan Qiu wondered in his mind.

"Iraq?"

Thinking of the Iraq War, Guan Qiu couldn't help but shout: "it-"

On March 20, 2003, a joint force, mainly British and American troops, unilaterally launched a military strike against Iraq on the grounds that Iraq was hiding weapons of mass destruction and secretly supporting the K-Bo elements, bypassing the United Nations Security Council.

In order to achieve absolute superiority in the Iraq war, the US military dispatched 180,000 troops, originally thinking that this war could be fought very easily, but because the battle line was too long, the United States soon fell into a stalemate, although the use of many new weapons, as well as large-scale air strikes, but still did not achieve a quick victory.

The war lasted nine years from March '03 to 2010, when U.S. troops fully withdrew from Iraq.

"Hold a big grass!" Guan Qiu exclaimed again, and then shouted at Pu Ruo at the door: "Don't go!"

Pu Ruo's hand just touched the doorknob, but he was startled by the nervous Guan Qiu, turned around and said angrily: "You are insane!"

Guan Qiu beckoned again and again: "Wait a minute, wait a minute! ”

Pu Ruo said angrily: "What do you want to do?"

Guan Qiu ignored her, jumped up and ran towards the bedroom, opened Qin Lan's work notebook, and then began to look for news about the war in Iraq.

[The U.S. Congress has approved $126.1 billion for the Iraq battlefield, with an additional $25 billion, for a total of $151.1 billion this year.] Congressional leaders have promised additional funding after the election. 】

[Economist Dow Haugh estimates that every American household pays at least $3,415 on average for the war.] 】

[March Telegraph: A U.S. Army survey found that 52 percent of soldiers are demoralized; a lack of equipment is a persistent problem, and it was not until June this year that the Army equipped soldiers with body armor, forcing many soldiers' families to pay for them themselves. 】

[A May poll conducted by the Coalition Provisional Authority found that 80 percent of Iraqis "distrust" both U.S. civilian authorities and coalition forces; and 55 percent believed they would feel safer if U.S. and other foreign forces were to withdraw from Iraq immediately.] 】

[Iraq's Oil Economy: Violence against the U.S. occupation has made it impossible for Iraq to exploit its oil resources. According to statistics, Iraqi oil facilities have been attacked 130 times. Iraq's oil production has fallen from 2.04 million barrels per day in 2002 to less than 1 million ......]

Seeing the last message, Guan Qiu almost didn't jump again.

As the first member of OPEC, the core layer of the power structure, Iraq plays a pivotal role in the world oil economy, and it is no exaggeration to say that the world's oil will tremble if it sneezes.

Now that the supply of oil has been drastically reduced due to the war, you can imagine how crazy oil prices will be next?

As Guan Qiu expected, in the previous life of 2004, after entering September, the world oil price jumped three times, from 35 US dollars to 40 US dollars, and then 45 US dollars, 50 US dollars, 55 US dollars, which made the whole world exclaim.

By June 2005, the international crude oil price exceeded $60 per barrel for the first time and accelerated.

In August, Hurricane Cathar hit Mexico, and the international crude oil price exceeded $70 per barrel for the first time.

On September 12, 2007, the international crude oil price exceeded $80 per barrel for the first time, and then continued to accelerate the market.

On October 18 of that year, the international crude oil price exceeded $90 per barrel for the first time, and approached $100 per barrel at the end of the year!

In 2008, international crude oil prices soared again, and on July 14, the price of crude oil futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit an all-time high of $147.27 per barrel.

Until January 21, 2009, due to the impact of the financial crisis, international oil prices fell sharply, and the price of crude oil futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange fell to $33.20, returning to the data before September 2004.

Guan Qiu doesn't know about these news yet, but one thing he is very sure of is that oil prices will definitely triple jump in the short term, and oil prices will not fall for a long time in the future.

In the living room, Pu Ruo waited for three minutes, and when he saw that he didn't come out for a long time, he simply ignored him, opened the door and left.

Who knew that as soon as he arrived downstairs, Qin Lan, who was shopping for vegetables, came back.

Qin Lan, who was originally walking briskly, immediately blushed after seeing Pu Ruo, and said embarrassedly: "You...... How did you come back?"

Pu Ruo "hummed" and walked towards the car without saying a word.

At this moment, Guan Qiu shouted upstairs: "Hey, Pu Ruo will come back soon, I have something to look for you." ”

Seeing that Pu Ruo ignored him, he had no choice but to shout at Qin Lan again: "Hurry up and hold her, I have something to look for her." ”

After speaking, Guan Qiu hurriedly went downstairs, and then dragged Pu Ruo back upstairs.

Pu Ruo was so angry that she almost didn't go crazy, but this time she was really angry.

Guan Qiu didn't care so much, and took care of himself and talked about his "judgment" on the trend of crude oil prices.

It's a pity that Pu Ruo didn't pay attention to him at all, thinking that he deliberately didn't have anything to say to cover up his immoral behavior.

Guan Qiu was going crazy in a hurry, if he didn't know how to operate, and he didn't even know where to buy crude oil futures, he would have gone to find someone to apply for a visa to the United States now.

Guan Qiu suppressed his excitement and said: "If you believe me, although I don't understand stocks or finance, I can analyze, and oil prices will definitely skyrocket in the short term." ”

Pu Ruo couldn't help but say: "What do you know, in addition to the geopolitical situation, the price of crude oil also has to take into account economic growth, monetary factors, climate factors, etc., which is not as simple as you said."

If the supply of crude oil is reduced just because of the war, the price will rise sharply, and then they will simply wait for the war to make money, and what economic analysts will they need?"

Guan Qiu said: "You believe me, the price of crude oil will definitely skyrocket.

Do you remember the small house I asked you to buy, now it is more than 6,000 square meters, and it has only been a few months? The annualized rate of return must be more than 30%, right?

There are also Tengxun stocks, you see that when they were listed in June, they were only more than 3 Hong Kong dollars per share, and now they are about to rise to 5 yuan, with a yield of 40%, doesn't this prove my vision?"

"......" Pu Ruo said stiffly: "It's just a coincidence......"