Rebirth 1980: Marrying my sister’s best friend at the beginning

In the next few days, as everyone expected, Star Investment Company and the British Group competed for Hang Seng's shares.

However, the battle was not as fierce as expected. Although the stock price had been rising, it only climbed to HK$4 until April Fool's Day, April 1.

It only increased by HK$4 in 5 days. How can I say this data? It can only be regarded as barely adequate.

Although if we only look at the increase, it has risen by about 25%, but it has nothing to do with the doubling, or even several times, of the stock price that the public expected.

You must know that during the battle for Huifeng's equity a few days ago, the two sides were not like this. At that time, Huifeng's share price was only 14 Hong Kong dollars per share. As a result, it skyrocketed to more than 1 Hong Kong dollars per share in just a few days.

That's a full five-fold increase. Compared with this, Hang Seng's stock price simply doesn't resemble the style of these two parties.

And this also made many brokerage institutions who wanted to take advantage of the situation but gave up in the end say they were lucky.

Fortunately, I was too scared to enter the venue before.

Otherwise, with such an increase, it would not be easy for them to take advantage of the situation.

And if you are not careful, you may be catastrophic. In short, the risks and rewards are completely disproportionate.

However, it is a good opportunity for ordinary investors. Anyway, they don’t have much funds. The most funds are only HKD 20 or [-], or only a few hundred HKD. As long as there is an increase and the price is not very high, You can get them all.

Even if the stock price does fall, their losses will not be large.

Therefore, there are more small retail investors following these days.

But since their power was not large, they had little impact on the war between the two sides.

Of course, the reason why the stock price is like this is mainly due to Xingchen Company and British Capital Group.

Now the two parties are in a special state, that is, you know that I have evil intentions, and I understand your wolfish ambitions.

Li Yi is here to buy time, and a slower increase will be beneficial to him, so he is not very active when raising prices.

Dolson, on the other hand, was afraid that the price would rise too quickly. Xingchen Company seized the opportunity to cash out and left the market as before, and was very cautious.

In their opinion, it is good to pull up slowly in this way. When the pull is almost done, they can quickly sell their shares and lock up Xingchen Company.

So, this scene happened.

But while Hong Kong Island was in a tug-of-war, Li Yunbao and others were making smooth progress in London.

Late at night on April 4, Li Yi received a call from Li Futiao, saying that Li Yunbao and others had successfully invested the rest according to his request, except for leaving a small amount of emergency funds.

At present, they already hold 152 million steel futures contracts in their hands, with an average purchase price of 210 pounds per ton.

In addition, they also purchased 900 million tons of existing steel from the steel and building materials markets in the British Isles. Due to the early purchase, the average price per ton was only 180 pounds.

Furthermore, Li Yunbao and others also hold 12 copper contracts and 17.9 aluminum contracts. The average purchase prices of these two metals are 1578 pounds and 1167 pounds per ton respectively.

After listening to what Li Futiao said, Li Yi muttered in his heart, this data is wrong!

According to his estimate, the steel stock in the British Isles should only be 9000 to [-] million tons. Adding the amount that can be produced in the next three months, the total adds up to [-] million tons at most.

After all, the current annual steel production in the British Isles is less than 3000 million tons, which amounts to only 800 million tons in a quarter.

Each contract in the London metal futures market is 25 tons, which means that regardless of whether it is spot or futures, the total number is 400 million.

But obviously, it is impossible to put all of these steel products into the futures market. Half of them will be enough, which is about 200 million lots.

Right now, they alone have obtained more than 150 million contracts. Could it be that the other consortiums combined only have 50 contracts?This is obviously impossible, things are not quite right over there.

But Li Yi hasn't figured out what exactly is the problem. He plans to go to London after stabilizing Dolson and others.

In addition to reporting on the completion of the task, Li Futiao also told Li Yi some about the situation in London.

It is said that in the past few days, the media and newspapers there have been speculating that there is going to be a war, and the opponent is Argentina, the strongest country in South America.

Affected by this, the prices of various supplies in the British Isles are currently rising, including food and energy, especially those related to war, with prices rising every day.

At the end of the day, Li Futiao asked Li Yi a question: Is there really going to be a war over there?

Regarding Li Futiao's question, Li Yi did not hide it and told him directly that the possibility of war between Britain and Afghanistan was more than 80%.

If Li Futiao had asked this question a few days ago, Li Yi might not have said it.

But things are different now. If history had not changed, war would have broken out tomorrow.

That’s right, it’s tomorrow!
As early as the beginning of this year, the not-so-eager diplomatic mediation between Britain and Argentina had failed. Argentina immediately formulated a combat plan and prepared to forcibly occupy the Falklands.

Starting in March, the Argentine Navy began transporting troops onto ships in the Port of Belgrano. Various signs showed Argentina's intentions, but intelligence personnel on John Bull's side believed that "an aggressive action will not come soon."

But what they never expected was that tomorrow, Argentina's President Galtieri would order troops to occupy the Falklands, and the Falklands War would officially break out.

Therefore, there is no need to hide the news now. When dawn tomorrow, the whole world will know the news that Argentina has sent troops to capture the Falklands. When that time comes, it will depend on what London chooses.

In fact, by next Monday, April 4, London will publicly declare that the Falkland Islands (Fallen Islands) are part of them. The residents of the islands are subjects loyal to the British crown, and they will take them back at any cost. Falkland Islands.

Subsequently, a large number of warships will rush to the waters of the Falklands, and finally the two sides will officially start a war in late April.

After receiving Li Yi's almost affirmative answer, Li Futiao felt a lot more at ease.

After all, in this investment operation, he not only handed Li Yi a huge amount of HK$20 billion, but the company also invested 2 million pounds, equivalent to HK$34 billion.

This is more than 50 billion in funds, accounting for almost one-third of his net worth.

If something goes wrong, even if the Li family is strong, they will not be able to bear such losses.

But as long as the war can start, then this investment will be stable!
In fact, the price of materials in London is now skyrocketing, and the price of strategic materials such as metal has increased by nearly 40% compared with before their entry.

In other words, they are now making money, and they are making a lot of money.

But Li Futiao knows that how much money he makes now is just a book figure. If these futures contracts are not sold in a day and the money has not been settled, it has no practical significance.

After all, the futures market is full of deep waters, waves, and monsters. No matter how big a player you are, you can make a comeback.

Especially for this kind of bulk futures commodity, no one can guarantee that the price will continue to rise. Maybe the price will suddenly plummet at the next moment.

It can even fall into negative numbers sometimes, do you dare to think?
But after listening to Li Yi's words, Li Futiao felt confident that at least these futures contracts would still have room to rise in a short period of time.

He hung up the phone with satisfaction without asking Li Yi about the source of the news.

In his eyes, Li Yi never represented himself. Even if Li Yi said that he knew the color of the underwear of the president's wife of a certain country, Li Futiao believed it.

After all, the person standing behind this person is a powerful country. Isn't it reasonable for him to "predict" in advance that the two countries will go to war?
However, what Li Futiao didn't know after having a good night's sleep was that many people suffered from insomnia that night.

Early the next morning, when people in many countries around the world woke up, they heard news that stunned them - Britain and Afghanistan were at war! (End of chapter)