Chapter 148: Crude Oil Falls to the Sky (Ask for a subscription, ask for a monthly pass)
A massive leak of crude oil!
Seeing this news, Jack Zhao's face was like ashes, because according to his previous experience, once a large-scale oil spill occurs, the price of crude oil futures will skyrocket.
Ji Sheng shorted 20 million!
Paul shorts 10 million!
I'm afraid that the 1.5 million deposit of the two people together is very likely to not be able to keep it!
Jack Zhao is desperate!
But at this moment, the female anchor on the news continued to report: "...... The oil spill caused the formation of an oil drift belt about one kilometer wide and 800 kilometers long on the sea surface, the nearby reef was covered with a layer of black oil, sea otters, salmon and other marine life died on a large scale, The Nature Conservancy has hired a team of lawyers to file a huge claim of more than 200 million US dollars against the International Petroleum Exchange, Exxon Corporation, the beautiful country government, etc., and local residents of the town also said that they would sue Exxon. ”
Well?
The Nature Conservancy has appeared?
And asking for an environmental lawsuit in which more than $200 million is being filed?
Jack Zhao knows very well what kind of existence The Nature Conservancy is, this is the largest non-governmental sanitation organization, this association is committed to protecting the land and water with important ecological value on a global scale, in fact, in the name of protecting the natural environment, it has repeatedly claimed claims from major companies that have polluted the environment.
Jack Zhao seems to have foreseen that Exxon, the culprit of the oil spill, and the international oil exchange are in a hurry, and even the governments of beautiful countries will have to drink a pot.
Something big is coming!
This thought immediately popped into Jack Zhao's mind, and then he became nervous again, because in this situation, he had no idea how the international crude oil price would go.
"If I don't eat it, I'll go to the company now." Jack Zhao couldn't sit still any longer.
His wife was stunned for a moment, "Is the crude oil leak a crude oil price about to skyrocket?" ”
Jack Zhao said with a solemn face: "Not necessarily, I may not come back for dinner tonight." ”
After saying that, he hurriedly left the house with his briefcase.
……
Because the trading hours of Pretty Country crude oil are from 6 a.m. on Monday to 5 a.m. on Saturday, Jack Zhao saw the price of crude oil as soon as he arrived at the company.
Twenty-three seventy-one!
You must know that when he watched it before, it was still twenty-four six-two, and a news broadcast actually plummeted by 0.91 dollars!
It took four months for the international crude oil price to climb from 17 yuan to 24 yuan, but it fell by 0.91 yuan in just one night!
Jack Zhao instantly understood one thing, I am afraid that the impact of the huge compensation raised by The Nature Conservancy this time is far beyond his imagination!
His boss, a middle-aged white man in his forties, immediately stepped forward and shouted, "Man, you've been doing a great job lately!" ”
Jack Zhao let out an "ah", but he didn't realize what he meant.
His boss laughed and patted him on the shoulder and said: "This morning, the international crude oil price plummeted, and the whole Wall Street corpses were all over the field, and there was a wail, fortunately our company has you, everyone heard that you do not recommend others to buy crude oil futures these days, and they have followed the trend, and our company's customers have not suffered heavy losses, Zhao, you are worthy of our company's ace securities broker, you are so amazing!" ”
Jack Zhao's face turned red when he was told by the boss, which is why he is amazing, it is obviously Ji Sheng's credit.
He really didn't expect Ji Sheng's eyes to be so sharp, and he could judge that the price of crude oil would plummet a few days in advance.
I secretly admired Ji Sheng in my heart.
But Jack Zhao suddenly thought of one more thing, this time the collapse of crude oil prices was an accident, such as the oil tanker hitting the reef and The Nature Conservancy filing a huge compensation, these two things are simply uncontrollable, how did Ji Sheng judge?
Can he pass through ghosts and gods?
The Chinese outside are more or less superstitious, and the same is true for Jack Zhao, who believes in ghosts and gods the most on weekdays, and now thinks of Ji Sheng's almost miraculous ability to judge that the price of crude oil plummeted a few days later, Jack Zhao was so frightened that his hairs stood up, and he said that Ji Sheng should not be some kind of evil demon or something, right?
……
Just when Jack Zhao's company was celebrating and Wall Street was mourning.
Exxon, the company responsible for the oil spill, has finally stepped up to respond, saying they claim that much of this once-pristine area has been restored.
The price of crude oil also temporarily froze at $23.71.
But a lie is always a lie.
As a large number of volunteers flocked to Valdez, it soon became clear that Exxon had spent a lot of money to appease the townspeople and hire fishermen to clean the beach from the oil.
The angry volunteers immediately exposed Exxon's ugliness to the major media in the beautiful country!
There was an uproar in the major media outlets, and they publicly accused Exxon of inaction.
But this time, Exxon did not stand up for the response at all, and even did not apologize to the local governments of the United States and Canada, which further worsened the situation and the pollution area became larger and larger.
International crude oil prices rushed to the impact again, and at about 2:40 p.m., the price of crude oil had fallen below 22.3 US dollars and came to 22.25!
The local governments of the United States and Canada, national environmental protection organizations, other environmental protection organizations in beautiful countries, and the press are very angry at Exxon's bad attitude of ignoring the public interest, and they have attacked it en masse.
At 5 p.m. local time, a vigorous "anti-Exxon movement" began, and the momentum was so great that it shocked the whole country.
International crude oil fell again and has fallen to the $22 range.
……
Early the next morning.
When the top person in the beautiful country learned of this, he was also furious, and immediately sent a series of high-level officials such as the secretary of transportation and the senior director of the Environmental Protection Agency to organize a special task force to conduct a detailed investigation in Alaska and near Princes Bay.
After a night of fermentation, the international crude oil price has fallen to 21.5 US dollars, I don't know if it is the international crude oil which major company has made efforts to keep the price and invested a large amount of money into it, when the task force has just been established and has not yet started to take action, the price of crude oil has risen by 0.01 percent.
But at 12:05 p.m. on the 25th, the task force reported a shocking news that eight million gallons of crude oil had been leaked!
An eight-million-gallon oil spill will cause great damage to the oceans is known to anyone with a discerning eye!
Major environmental groups, led by The Nature Conservancy, have publicly criticized Exxon and the International Petroleum Exchange for their inaction in the media.
Not only that, some so-called new energy companies have also come out to attack the crude oil industry, and they have taken the opportunity to hype up the benefits of new energy such as wind, solar, and tidal energy, in order to plunder the market share of crude oil.
In the afternoon, the price of crude oil plunged again, falling to $20.7 at once.
Around nine o'clock in the evening.
The investigation of the accident was preliminarily completed, and the task force solemnly announced to the major media the main cause of the accident: the cause of this vicious accident was the negligence of the captain of the oil tanker Exxon, who drank vodka and fell asleep, and the third mate at the helm failed to turn in time, causing the oil tanker to crash headlong into the reef!
As soon as the investigation report was released, the uproar in the outside world became even more violent.
Exxon is what Wanfu refers to!
Before 12 o'clock that night, the price of crude oil had fallen below 20 US dollars and came to 19:76!
……
Twenty-sixth.
According to statistics, in just two or three days after the oil spill, as many as 250,000 seabirds died, and the number of corpses of countless other fish and sea creatures floating on the ocean was so huge that it was impossible to count them in time.
Shocking!
This incident is truly shocking!
The price of crude oil was greatly affected, and it fell to 18.5 all at once!
……
Twenty-seventh.
According to reports from the governments of Princes Bay and Alaska, more than 10 million gallons of crude oil have been spilled because of Exxon's lack of timely rescue!
Early in the morning, the price of crude oil fell to $17.6.
At this time, Ji Sheng, who was sleeping in the hotel, was also woken up by the phone.
Jingle bells, jingle bells.
The phone rang very quickly.
Ji Sheng picked up the phone in a daze and said instinctively, "Hey? ”
Fortunately, it was Jack Zhao's voice from the other end, who was almost crazy and shouted, "Mr. Ji! God! You're really divine! ”
Ji Sheng closed his eyes, "Huh? ”
Jack Zhao said excitedly: "Twelve o'clock tonight is the delivery time for you and Paul to buy crude oil futures contracts, guess how much the price of crude oil has fallen?" ”
Ji Sheng yawned, "Eighteen? ”
"Seventeen-six! It's already down to seventeen.six! Jack Zhao said excitedly: "And look at this trend, the price of crude oil will fall further before tonight, and you have made a lot of money this time!" ”
it!
It's already down to seventeen.six?
Ji Sheng woke up suddenly, although he had already seen the data in modern society, but after hearing it, he still turned over excitedly and hurriedly said, "I'll come over immediately." ”
"Okay, our boss said that he was going to hold a celebration banquet for you and Paul, haha, I also entrusted you with Hongfu this time to keep the name of the company's No. 1 securities broker." Jack Zhao was so excited that he couldn't do it, and his mouth was still praising fiercely, "Mr. Ji, you are really a bull, I have been engaged in the securities and futures industry for more than ten years, and I have never seen a god like you who can even calculate accidents, what a god!" ”
Ji Sheng didn't say anything, just exchanged a few words of greeting, and then hung up the phone.
After hanging up.
He sat on the edge of the bed and couldn't help shaking his head at the phone, sure enough, it was a capitalist country, and it was clear that the natural environment had been so greatly damaged, but the group of capitalists only cared about futures prices.
However, Ji Sheng thought about it and his mood suddenly became wonderful, yes, what do you care about if you don't care about futures prices?
Man dies for money, and birds die for food.
This is a truth that has been true since time immemorial.
Although the final result of the modern society showed that the lowest price of crude oil had plummeted, he really didn't know what the price would be when his contract was delivered.
Let's hope we hit rock bottom!
In this way, he will benefit a little more.
Ji Sheng got up from the bed to freshen up with anticipation, and an amazing idea involuntarily popped up in his mind.
Since I know that this incident will make the price of crude oil fall to the bottom, can I buy it at the lowest price?
And this time it fell to the lowest price this year, if you buy it yourself, even if you do a thousand times leverage, there will be no risk!
Ji Sheng's eyes flickered, and he seemed to see a way to make a fortune that quickly made his assets skyrocket.