Chapter 687 A delicate situation

As early as two years ago, the United States wanted to deal with Iran, when the Obama administration proposed to deal with Iran, but later because of the United States' financial and other problems, it had to delay this matter, but with the sudden emergence of new weapons in China, the United States naturally could not take care of Iran. However, the United States had already publicly announced it to the outside world at that time, and it was naturally impossible for Iran not to know that the Islamic world was very united, although Kuwait and Qatar were due to the influence of the United States and the fact that the United States had military bases in their countries, so even if the United States did something against Middle Eastern countries, they were unlikely to get involved.

But Iran has a delicate relationship with the Syrian government, although the Islamic world is very united, but the Islamic world is also divided into two factions, first of all, Iran has a very strong voice in the Islamic world, but Iran belongs to the Shiites, and the other Arab countries are all Sunnis, and unfortunately, the Syrian government army belongs to the Shiites, so Iran naturally has a very delicate relationship with people of its own faction.

Although it is said that it has not publicly expressed support, but it has not openly opposed it, and the government of the Syrian opposition belongs to the Sunnis, and other Arab countries support the Syrian opposition, among which Turkey is the most active, Turkey belongs to NATO countries, and it is on the side of the United States, so it can be seen from these relations that the influence of the United States in the Middle East is not small at all.

But Iran has been opposing the United States for so many years, coupled with Iran's influence in the Arab world, it is not unimaginable if Iran really wants to help the Syrian government army, but the United States has begun to directly send troops to participate in Syria, and the Syrian government army is estimated to not be able to support it for long, in fact, Syria has been delaying this matter for several years. If Iran is going to help. You should have helped a long time ago, not now.

And, what does it mean that Iran suddenly announced an increase in its own oil reserves? The demand for crude oil in the Middle East countries is not very large, first of all, their country is not large, but it has 70% of the world's oil reserves, and second, the Middle East countries do not need to use a huge amount of crude oil like the United States, China, Russia, these big countries, plus their own domestic oil production. Moreover, the oil production is very high, and it can be said that although these countries also have strategic reserves, the strategic reserves are not like countries like the United States, which directly reach the terrifying figure of 200 to 30 billion barrels.

Yang Yiwei doesn't know what the situation is in the Middle East, but Iran's suddenly announced decision has a huge impact on the world community. Most directly, Iran is the most powerful country in the Middle East militarily. It can be said that there is not even one of them. Iran suddenly announced this, and the United States immediately became nervous and began to guard against Iran, so that the situation in the Persian Gulf suddenly became tense, and no one knew whether the oil output of the Persian Gulf would be affected after the channel.

In this way, if the price of international crude oil does not rise, there will be a ghost, and Stefan has reacted most violently here. A few days ago, Stefan's 1 billion short orders went down, and it would take about half a day to be eaten, and about 2 billion short orders were eaten in a day, but now 1 billion US dollars are empty orders. Not even two hours could be supported, and in one day, Stefan was eaten up with nearly $5 billion in empty orders.

Now Stefan's eaten funds have reached nearly $50 billion, and the exchange has asked Stefan to re-make the margin, plus the refilled margin, Stefan's trapped funds are now about $58 billion, and the distance from $100 billion is not $42 billion.

It's already more than halfway through, seeing this situation, Stefan thought about it, and then directly ordered his trader: "10 billion US dollars short order, a total of two." With Stefan's order, two sky-large short orders were immediately smashed on the European futures trading market, and these two sky-large short orders came out, which immediately startled everyone.

Naturally, this news reached the United States for the first time, and the old Rockefeller who received the news was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect the Covant family to be able to come up with $20 billion in funds. "How much money do we have now?" Old Rockefeller immediately asked.

"There are only less than 2 billion US dollars, if we start to withdraw now, we can still withdraw about 20 billion US dollars in 7 days, because we did not expect such a large number of short buyers this time, so the prepared funds are only about 3 billion US dollars, and this 2 billion US dollars is already the third withdrawal of funds, not counting the 2 billion US dollars, we have invested a total of about 5.6 billion yuan."

The old Rockefeller's assistant immediately reported the situation to the old Rockefeller, originally this kind of investment situation the old Rockefeller is not to ask, the family naturally has the relevant responsible person responsible for this aspect of investment, every family has such a person, but because of the sudden emergence of the Covant family this time, the futures market is not very clear now, so the old Rockefeller must make a decision.

"Let's raise some funds, without affecting the operation of the group, just in case." Old Rockefeller thought for a moment before he spoke.

"I know it." The situation here of the old Rockefeller is similar to that of several other consortia, to be honest, these consortia did not expect this to happen at all, and the Covant family is clearly desperate. But because it is not yet the time for delivery, unless you want to close all positions now, but if they force all of them to close their positions now, the price of crude oil will definitely be directly pulled down by the Covant family.

Because they have eaten a lot of orders at a high price, they can hardly make much money one after the other, but have to lose money. With such a large investment of funds, the losses in other aspects are also very large. What's more, the current situation is clearly in their favor, and if it continues, then at least half of the $50 billion that the Covant family has invested now, even if it is forced to liquidate, will have to be left at least more than half.

This is a profit that I never thought of before, and this 20 billion US dollars is equivalent to nothing, because almost all the short orders are eaten by a few of them, and the most unfortunate profits are naturally separated by them, and billions of dollars are already a considerable profit for these investment companies, not to mention that it is only a dozen days before and after that so many profits can be made. So although they were shocked by the two big empty orders, they still came back to their senses quickly.

In fact, before they could start, the two short orders were almost eaten up by various retail investors, and the remaining short orders of more than 10 billion US dollars were quickly eaten. Stefan looked at the current price of crude oil, $115 per barrel, this price is already quite high, although Stefan smashed out a lot of short orders, but the funds in his hands have risen much, and when these two orders were eaten, the price of crude oil was once again pulled up by nearly $5.

And Stefan had to come up with more than a billion dollars to fill the position again, otherwise, he would be forced to close the position, although it is certain that it is a loss, but now is not the time. In the next few days, the Covant family was like a hysterical person, constantly investing money, and even Stefan let the outside world spread several news, such as the Covant's intention to sell their shares in the Bavarian mechanical engineering plant, that is, BMW, etc., as well as the news of borrowing money from the bank.

Although these news are constantly circulating in the outside world, in fact, Stefan has not moved at all, but other people can't get this information, after all, the Covant family is very influential in Germany, and it is difficult for other families to get specific information about whether the other party has a loan. So after releasing these news, Stefan directly smashed the last two short orders of $10 billion, and these two orders were gone.

Originally, those consortia that were a little hesitant before, this time the action was even more rapid, because they all knew that the Covant family was already at the end of the crossbow, and more than 100 billion US dollars had been smashed in before and after, and the strength of the Covante family was almost their limit, so after eating these two short orders at a high price, these consortia began to wait, and now as long as the price of crude oil does not fall, then they can wait for the delivery date to come. And then make this huge profit of at least more than $50 billion.

But how could they wait until the delivery date? What are you kidding, how many people in the futures market wait for the delivery date, because the delivery period of futures is basically more than half a year, what if the price of crude oil falls by then? And the current price of crude oil is obviously pulled up by them, even if it can't fall to the previous price, it will be lower than now, such a terrifying amount of money thrown in, every $1 lower, the Covante family will lose hundreds of millions of dollars.

And their profits are naturally hundreds of millions of dollars less, so of course they can't wait until that time, now all they have to do is to continue to pull up the price of crude oil, and now for every $1 increase, the Covant family will be forced to close billions of dollars of goods.

When the price of crude oil rose to $116.2 again, the Covante family did not continue to smash short orders, and soon the exchange forcibly closed the short orders of the Covante family of billions of dollars, and these billions of dollars of profits directly entered several major consortia in the United States, as well as some medium-sized consortia in Europe. (To be continued......)