Reborn Business Tycoon

Chapter 418: Unexpected Windfall (6) After seeing Yao Yi, the wise rat said mysteriously: "Guess what good news I brought you?"

Yao Yi looked at the Wisdom Rat and said with a smile: "Looking at how excited you are, it seems that you have gained a lot this time."

The wise mouse said in a mysterious manner: "I can guarantee that you will never know what I have gained."

Yao Yi thought to herself: "What is this dead rat trying to show off in front of me? He probably got Chairman Li's gold from the Overseas Chinese Federation. However, there is nothing strange about this. It is all expected. Is there anything else worth showing off?

Something?"

Yao Yi smiled and said, "Okay, stop showing off in front of me and tell me if you have anything to say."

Wisdom Mouse took out a metal box inlaid with gems. After Yao Yi looked at it, he said in surprise: "What is in this?"

The wise mouse said: "Open it and take a look, you will know."

Yao Yi carefully opened the box and saw something like a beautiful stamp album. When he opened it, he was shocked. It was all in English. After a closer look, he found that it was a ten-year bearer US Treasury bond with a face value of one billion.

bonds.

This bearer bond (also called a physical bond) means that the name of the creditor does not need to be marked on the face of the bond, nor is it registered in the company register.

Its advantage is that it has good liquidity and can be bought and sold freely; its disadvantage is that when the bond is lost or damaged, it cannot be reported as a loss or reissued, and its security is poor.

Yao Yi looked at the wise mouse in surprise.

The wise mouse said: "Surprised, I have checked, these bonds are worth up to 200 billion US dollars."

Yao Yi was surprised: "So many."

The wise mouse said: "This is nothing, look at this."

After Yao Yi read it, he asked: "What's going on?"

Smart Mouse said: "This is the futures investment account of Goldman Sachs in the United States."

Yao Yi said: "What, futures?"

In his previous life, Yao Yi had heard of futures, and Guo Changxing and Mei Shengcai also mentioned futures. However, Yao Yi was not interested in this thing and felt that these futures were too ethereal. He believed more in those with stronger sensory qualities.

items.

In fact, futures are relative to spot. They refer to the subject matter that is bought and sold now, but will be delivered or delivered in the future. This subject matter can be a certain commodity (such as gold, crude oil, agricultural products), or a financial instrument.

, or it can be a financial indicator. The day for delivery of futures can be one week later, one month later, three months later, or even one year later.

The contract or agreement for buying and selling futures is called a futures contract. The place where futures are bought and sold is called a futures market.

Investors can invest or speculate in futures. However, the most important feature of futures is that they have a strong speculative component. Improper speculation in futures, such as short selling without goods, can lead to turmoil in the financial market.

Short selling refers to speculators selling or claiming to sell stocks, gold, securities, etc. commodities or assets that they do not hold in the trading market, and hope to buy the same amount at a lower price in the future

of the same kind of goods or assets.

Its purpose of speculation is: if the asset (such as a stock) falls as expected in the future, speculators can obtain profits from the price difference.

For example: Suppose the current price of gold is US$1,200 per ounce, and a speculator believes that the price of gold will soon fall to US$1,100 per ounce. At this time, the speculator claims to sell it at US$1,200 per ounce without holding gold.

For 1,000 ounces of gold, the transaction date is one month later, so the speculator's investment account will have an income of US$1.2 million. One month later, if the price of gold falls smoothly to US$1,100 per ounce, the speculator will have US$1.1 million available.

To buy back 1,000 ounces of gold from the market, the expenditure was US$1.1 million, and a profit of US$100,000 was earned.

The main harm of short selling without goods is that it will lead to a large number of selling orders in the trading market, which will easily lead to a decline in the price of the commodity or asset in the market, and may easily cause a market depression, such as a stock market crash or a small stock market crash.

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If the price of the asset does not fall smoothly, but turns around and rises, the speculator will need to buy back the asset from the market at a high price in the future to complete the transaction. If the speculator does not have the financial ability to purchase these assets at a high price, the speculator may either

Borrowing debt or evading debt will result in chaos in the financial market, and in severe cases may lead to a financial crisis within a certain range.

The wise mouse said: "Yes, futures. Did you know that Chairman Li of the Overseas Chinese Federation is a very business-minded person. He used his 10,000 tons of gold to open a futures investment account at Goldman Sachs. So far,

The amount in the account has reached a trillion dollars."

Yao Yi said in disbelief: "Oh my God, what's going on? So, all his gold is in Goldman Sachs?"

Wisdom Mouse said: "He is not that stupid. His gold is stored in Citibank in the United States. He loaned US$500 billion using 10,000 tons of gold as collateral and invested it in Goldman Sachs's futures investment account. So far, he has not only

Not only did he repay the loan, but he also earned one trillion US dollars in futures assets and the 200 billion in bonds you saw.”

Yao Yi said: "According to you, Chairman Li of the Overseas Chinese Federation should be the richest tycoon in the world. He not only owns 10,000 tons of gold, but also has assets of 1200 billion?"

The wise mouse said: "Haha, if you say that, you are underestimating him. He has more than just this. In addition to having a futures account, he also has a securities investment account at Merrill Lynch, which contains 6,000 yuan."

Hundreds of millions of dollars of funds are flowing, and the investment focus is on the finance and oil industries, especially the financial industry. He has shares in almost all the stocks of the top 100 banks in the world."

Yao Yi asked in disbelief: "Oh my god, 1.8 billion assets?"

The wise mouse said: "It's not 1800 billion, but 4 trillion US dollars. He also has a humble real estate investment company to help him quietly acquire real estate around the world, and the total value of these properties is as high as 20,000 US dollars."

Two hundred billion U.S. dollars, these real estate properties are almost all over developed countries such as Europe and the United States, and they are all located in prime business districts. In New York alone, there are more than one hundred billion U.S. dollars of prime real estate."

After hearing this, Yao Yi took a deep breath and said, "Oh my god, what's going on? How does he have so much money? How does he make money?"

The wise mouse said: "This is normal. In his hands, he has kept tens of thousands of tons of gold for nearly fifty years. Isn't it normal to make this little money?"

Yao Yi said: "I don't understand. China was isolated from the world at that time. How could he have the opportunity to invest outside?"

The wise mouse said: "Don't forget, he used to be engaged in foreign trade. Haha, besides, as long as they have money, there are many people who want to do things for him. There is one more thing, you will be even more surprised when you hear it."