Hong Kong Giant Owl: Rebirth

Chapter 884 The Dollar Crisis
Although Lawrence was quietly watching Qin Haoran's movements, Qin Haoran did not take any action after receiving Lawrence's loan, except for occasionally inspecting the headquarters of "Tianma Logistics" in the Empire State Building, and taking Ouyang Bi And He Sirou was playing around in New York.

This made Lawrence very strange. Originally, Lawrence planned to use Rockefeller's energy to monitor the [-] million US dollars in the bank, but Qin Haoran transferred the money to an investment bank outside the United States that Rockefeller could not influence. , Let Lawrence's goal fail.

On the fourth day after Lawrence sent someone to monitor Qin Haoran's movements, he still found nothing.

Today, Lawrence is drinking black tea in his office at the New York Stock Exchange while reading today's financial news.It's just that his attitude towards reading financial news is different from ordinary people. Ordinary people read financial news with the attitude of reading unknown news, but Lawrence seems to be reviewing reports.

The difference between the two is that the financial news that ordinary people see is something they didn't know before seeing the news, while Lawrence knew the news early in the morning, and when the news became news and was released, he It is to look at it with a reviewing eye.

The reason why he was able to do this all depended on Rockefeller's energy, which enabled him to know the stock market or other economic trends ahead of most people in the same field. Even, some of these trends were changed by Lawrence or Rockefeller. Caused with purpose and plan.

In fact, almost all of Rockefeller's investment behavior in the stock market was presided over by Lawrence.During this period of time, Lawrence did not make any moves in the stock market, but instead invested more in other emerging industries.

While Lawrence was sipping black tea and reading the financial newspaper, someone knocked on his office door.

"Come in." Lawrence put down his teacup, his eyes still on the newspaper.

A young man with a capable face opened the door and walked in, and said to Lawrence: "Mr. Lawrence, the price of the London gold market has suddenly soared by 15.00%!"

"Huh?" Lawrence's expression changed, and he couldn't help but sit upright on the chair, asking, "What's going on?"

The young employee said: "I don't know, the situation happened very suddenly. As soon as the London gold market opened today, the price of gold soared all the way, and the increase has reached as high as 15.00% now!"

Lawrence pondered for a while, and said, "Hmph! This horrible situation is here again!"

In fact, Lawrence also understands the reason for this situation. In the final analysis, it is the "dollar crisis".With the expansion of the Vietnam War by the United States, the balance of payments further deteriorated, and the dollar continued to depreciate. The original fixed exchange rate system between the dollar and gold fell into the quagmire of disintegration.

To put it simply, the U.S. dollar was originally a currency equivalent to gold, and the U.S. government linked the U.S. dollar directly to gold to ensure the stability of the U.S. dollar.However, with the continuous loss of U.S. gold reserves, the excess reception of the U.S. dollar and the excess demand for gold, coupled with the continued depreciation of the U.S. dollar in essence, have caused the value of the U.S. dollar to become increasingly unequal to gold.

Internationally, even on the black market in the United States, the same amount of dollars can buy less and less gold.

This makes the fixed exchange rate system implemented by the U.S. government more and more in name only. Once the international gold market fluctuates, the U.S. dollar will fluctuate accordingly, which is not only very passive, but also causes substantial damage to the U.S. economy.

"Mr. Lawrence, what do we need to do?" The male employee said to Lawrence: "If we operate foreign exchange and gold on the free market now, the gains will be very rich."

Lawrence also understood that the operation the employee mentioned was actually taking advantage of the gradual collapse of the US fixed exchange rate system, coupled with the free market, such as the fluctuation of gold prices in the London gold market and the depreciation of the US dollar, to speculate and gain huge profits.

To put it bluntly, according to the fixed exchange rate system of the US government, gold that can be bought for one hundred dollars in the United States can be worth more than one hundred dollars if the gold is sold in a free market outside the United States.In this way, investors made money, but the U.S. government lost money.

But until now, the U.S. government still needs to maintain this fixed exchange rate system to avoid the collapse of the dollar and its international status.To put it simply, even if some investors take advantage of this loophole to speculate and resell, the United States can only knock down its teeth and swallow it in its stomach.

Now the price of gold on the London gold market has suddenly soared by 15.00%. If Lawrence buys a large amount of gold from the United States and then sells it on the London gold market, he can earn a profit of 15.00%.

Of course, if you add other speculation methods, such as futures, the profit will increase in multiples.

Although the London gold market did not officially start trading gold futures until [-], in fact, in the financial black market, the same type of gold futures trading has already been formed, even more advanced than the formal futures market in the early stages of development.

In addition to gold, you can also speculate in foreign exchange, currency, etc. Anyway, there are too many opportunities here.

After Lawrence heard such a proposal from his subordinates, he rejected it without hesitation.

He waved his hand and said, "No, this won't work. Not to mention that our speculation will cause huge losses to the United States. Although we can also affect the political situation in the United States, our main market is here in the United States. If the economy is damaged, we will also suffer, not to mention the U.S. government's overt and covert retaliation after knowing about it. In addition..."

"Even I cannot accurately predict the price changes of gold in the free market, and if we use a large amount of funds to manipulate, the risk is too great." Lawrence said: "Although we have a lot of funds in Rockefeller's hands, But it’s not invincible, the entire international market is so big, we can’t do whatever we want. Moreover, the decline of the US dollar has become more and more serious in the past few years, which also hides a lot of risks for us.”

In fact, Lawrence also understands the thoughts of his young subordinate. He was recruited into the New York Stock Exchange by himself two years ago. Although he is talented and young and motivated, everyone in the New York Stock Exchange is not mediocre. It is also very difficult to stand out from the crowd of competitors, so he cherishes the opportunity to perform in front of Lawrence, the boss.

His just suggestion to let Lawrence speculate in gold was to show his talent in front of Lawrence.

Lawrence didn't accept this young man's youthful vigor, but advised him to be more cautious in doing things, especially in terms of financial investment.

After the men went out, Lawrence called other people and asked them to keep an eye on the movements of the London gold market.

On the other hand, Lawrence also withdrew most of his investments in US dollars and gold, so as not to suffer huge losses due to the fluctuations in the London gold market this time.

Facts have shown that Lawrence was very correct in doing so. In the next month or so, the price of gold in the international market fluctuated, driving the U.S. dollar to fluctuate like a boat on the waves, and it also caused many people who invested in this area to suffer. a huge loss.

However, this fluctuation in the financial market only lasted for a month, and it came to an end. At the same time, it became the most ups and downs in the financial market this year. I don’t know how many people who want to speculate. In this turmoil, their families went bankrupt, and those who were lucky enough to buy it became rich overnight.

Lawrence believes that such storms will continue to come in the next few years. Unless the U.S. government can stabilize the dollar, the troubles will be endless.

Fortunately, I withdrew my investment in gold and U.S. dollars, otherwise the loss would not be small.Lawrence thought so.At the same time, Lawrence has another very important thing to do, which is to urge Qin Haoran to repay the debt.

Qin Haoran borrowed 50.00 million US dollars from Lawrence, and it has been exactly one month now.If Qin Haoran can't repay the debt on time, then the [-]% of the "Tianma Logistics" stock he pledged to Lawrence will all belong to Lawrence.

Therefore, Lawrence subjectively still hoped that Qin Haoran would repay the debt.However, if Qin Haoran loses "Tianma Logistics", no, it should be said that "Tianma Logistics" loses Qin Haoran, its potential will be greatly reduced, and even Qin Haoran may establish another logistics company in the future. With Qin Haoran's talent, it is not impossible to develop him into a leader in the world's logistics industry.

This is not what Lawrence wants to see, so the current Lawrence can be said to be hovering in contradictions.

He picked up the phone and dialed Qin Haoran's number: "Qin Haoran, how are you doing these days?"

"Fortunately, I'm just busy." Qin Haoran said with a smile on the phone.

When Lawrence heard Qin Haoran's words, he couldn't help but curse in his heart: Are you busy?Aren't you just busy taking the two women around you to play around?

Of course he wouldn't say what was in his heart, but said with a smile: "It's time to be busy, you have to pay attention to your health. Qin, our previous contract expires tomorrow, so the 500 [-] million dollars, when do you plan to return it to me?"

"I happen to want to tell you about this." Qin Haoran also smiled on the phone: "I have already prepared the money, and I won't need it tomorrow. I will transfer it back to your account this afternoon, and you can check it when the time comes." Bar."

Lawrence was not surprised that Qin Haoran was able to repay the money. What he was curious about was what did Qin Haoran do with the [-] million dollars this month?

(End of this chapter)