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At that time, the hurricane hit the oil storage area and the Gulf of Mexico in the United States, so Jin Xiaoqiang paid special attention to this natural disaster in the United States.

You must know that the economic barometer of the United States will directly affect the world oil price. Moreover, the Gulf of Mexico is the most important crude oil production area in the United States. Once it is severely damaged by Hurricane Katrina, the world's oil prices will also be affected.

will rise accordingly. As a result, the annual sales of the company he worked for at the time will also be affected.

That’s why Jin Xiaoqiang paid special attention to the natural disaster that happened in the United States.

If he remembered correctly, Hurricane Katrina directly caused the closure of one-third of the offshore oil fields near the Gulf of Mexico. In addition, seven refineries were suspended, and the construction of an oil export facility had to be suspended.

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It had a great impact on the U.S. oil economy. On the second day after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, the opening price of crude oil on the American Mercantile Exchange directly rose by five dollars, and it was likely to rise even further.

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When Jin Xiaoqiang heard the news in his previous life, he only felt that it was dark for a while. With the price of crude oil rising like this, who would buy a car these days?

If others don't buy cars, then engineers from automobile companies like them will have no food to eat. At that time, he was already ready to receive a box lunch directly.

But unexpectedly, the very next day, the U.S. government announced that it agreed to use strategic crude oil reserves, and under pressure from the U.S., the World Energy Organization also agreed to open strategic oil reserves and release an additional 2 million barrels of oil into the market every day.

As a result, the price of crude oil futures on the U.S. commodity exchange fell immediately in response.

Jin Xiaoqiang also saved his job. You must know that before the US government and the World Energy Organization decided to open up strategic reserves, not only did he feel that the future was bleak, but even many leaders of their company felt that this year's

The sales plan is finished, and we need to lay off employees and save money.

Unexpectedly, the final result turned out to be such a mixture of joy and sorrow!

But at the end of the year, a dispute over natural gas prices broke out between Russia and Ukraine. Only then did Jin Xiaoqiang know that the one that was most affected by Hurricane Katrina was not oil, but natural gas!

Natural gas is a relatively unpopular commodity in the futures market. Although it is also a commodity, not many people dare to play this project.

The reason is also very simple, because from a trading perspective, natural gas is a very strange commodity. It is difficult to transport and store, so traditional pricing models based on spot, futures and arbitrage transactions between different markets cannot be used.

This is very bad for many Wall Street elites who like to use data models to predict future changes in the futures market.

Moreover, the demand for natural gas is also difficult to predict. Not all American families in the United States will burn wood for heating at home in the winter, as seen in the movies.

In fact, many American households use natural gas as the raw material for heating and air conditioning, especially in big cities close to the coast such as New York, Boston, and Philadelphia.

Many individual residents living in high-rise apartments use natural gas as the raw material for heating in winter. Therefore, the demand for natural gas is closely related to the winter weather.

In addition, natural gas power plants that are easy to switch on and off but are relatively expensive will also turn on and off as electricity consumption changes, which adds to the variability of natural gas demand.

In short, the natural gas market is complex and changeable, and classical models cannot be used. Therefore, many traders in this trading market often rely only on intuition and experience.

This year's Hurricane Katrina had a huge impact on many offshore oil fields and refineries in the Gulf of Mexico in the southern United States. Although in terms of crude oil, because the United States and the World Energy Organization opened strategic reserves, the price of crude oil has not increased.

Rising significantly.

But when it comes to natural gas, they can't manage it. After Hurricane Katrina hit the United States at the end of August, the price of natural gas in the United States rose accordingly, from the original level of $7 per thousand cubic feet before Hurricane Katrina came.

The price has soared to more than fourteen dollars, more than double the price.

And this situation started in early September 2005 and lasted until around September of the next year. Because of the fear that hurricanes would come to the United States again and severely damage the oil and natural gas production in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, the price of natural gas fell.

Because this is a very special commodity, it has never dropped since it went up.

And because of the special position of the United States in the world economy,

Since the price of natural gas increased in the United States, the price of natural gas around the world has more than doubled, and like the United States, the price has been maintained at a high level and will not come down.

It is precisely because of this and the issue of the spin-off and sale of Yukos that Russia was fooled by the Americans and Western European countries led by Germany. At this time, Russia was looking for a place to vent its anger.

In addition, Ukraine has been wavering on the issue of NATO's eastward expansion in the past two years, and has been flirting with the EU. Russia immediately used the rise in world natural gas prices as an excuse to demand that Ukraine pay higher natural gas prices.

You must know that the natural gas Ukraine needs for heating every winter is provided by Russia, and most of the pipelines used by Russia to export natural gas to Western Europe pass through Ukraine.

When Ukraine saw this situation, they had no way to reason with Russia. They could only involve the Western European countries in the EU and reason with Russia, saying, look, your natural gas is bought to Western Europe through our domestic pipelines.

If it weren't for this pipeline, would your natural gas be able to be sold to Western Europe? What's wrong with us charging a toll? What's wrong with giving us a discount?

How can the Russians listen to this? You want to be a bastard to the Western Europeans, but you dare to give me eye drops?

Russia immediately stopped supplying gas to Ukraine, which suddenly caused several countries in Western Europe that had been gloating over the misfortune to suffer a lot.

As for Russia, Xiang Zhuang danced his sword with the intention of attacking Pei Gong, and what he wanted was a few guys headed by Germany who were causing trouble behind the scenes.

Russia stopped being angry, but it caused great harm to Germany and other Western European countries. They quickly jumped out and stood on the side of Ukraine, chirping and so on.

In the end, the matter was still a matter of compromise between all parties.

In the end it was settled.

In his previous life, at the end of this year, there was a serious quarrel between Russia and Ukraine. Jin Xiaoqiang paid special attention to the two original cousins. Later, he understood it from the analysis of various news media and Internet masters.

There's a lot going on here.

But in this life, the only piece of information that is useful to him is the news that the price of natural gas this year will more than double after Hurricane Katrina.

The world is like this. If there are victims of natural disasters, there will be beneficiaries of this natural disaster!

Otherwise, every time after a large-scale natural disaster, the stock or futures markets see soaring prices for infrastructure construction, steel, cement and other building materials companies. What's going on?

This natural disaster happened in the United States. It would be really unreasonable if we did not make use of the Americans' national wealth.

Americans rely on their big faces and thick arms to grab resources all over the world, and then they work hard every day to enjoy themselves at home, struggling to survive, and end up with huge debts, but they let the whole world pay for them. Jin Xiaoqiang has already

I have been unhappy with them for a long time.

If they hadn't caused the crisis in 2008 in the previous life, how could I have been so miserable in the next few years?

You must know that although on the surface it seems that China was not greatly affected by the escalation of the crisis, is the impact really not significant?

In order to cope with the so-called crisis, the government printed 4 trillion more banknotes in the name of the country, but most of this money fell into the pockets of the powerful and the second generation.

And the remaining inflation has to be borne by people like Jin Xiaoqiang. Life during that period was really uncomfortable!

When I was a kid, peaches cost three yuan per catty, but now they cost more than ten yuan per catty. The rich and powerful spent a lot of money in hotels, but common people like Jin Xiaoqiang could only endure the poison of gutter oil and clenbuterol. In such a day, is it possible?

Does it really have nothing to do with Americans?

Through no fault of our own, Americans also bear a great deal of responsibility for the subsequent economic crisis that prevailed around the world!

This time, Jin Xiaoqiang went to the United States to distribute Americans' national wealth. This is called robbing the rich and giving to the poor. Why do you Americans like to bully others so much, and like to put your hands into other people's pockets to take out money?

As early as a few months ago, Jin Xiaoqiang had asked Alice to go to the United States to make plans. Before going to the United States, because funds were relatively tight, Jin Xiaoqiang did not ask Alice to bring too much money with her.

Instead, he asked her to take the Google stocks in her hand to a bank for mortgage loans in the United States. You must know that Google stocks are extremely hot now. The Google stocks he originally spent one billion US dollars to acquire have a current market value of

It has more than doubled.

There is absolutely no problem in taking out 2 billion from the bank, and those American banks even hope that his business will fail, thus turning these Google stocks into dead stocks!

But Jin Xiaoqiang doesn't care what they think, he just thinks that using American money to make American money is the most enjoyable thing!