The Amazing son in law Chapter 8017
Steve returned to the private room and saw charlie. He smiled and said, “Mr. charlie, you wanted to see me?”
charlie nodded, gestured for him to sit down beside him, and then asked, “By the way, Steve, there’s something I might need your help with.”
Steve immediately replied, “Oh, don’t be so polite! It’s my honor to serve you!”
Rachel was already numb to Steve’s flattery. She quietly watched Steve’s complete obedience to charlie, and she understood even more clearly that as long as she cooperated with charlie, charlie would definitely be able to get Steve to bring huge benefits to her family. These benefits weren’t money, but rather the importance of the Qing Society, which would make the future life of her whole family much easier.
charlie then said to Steve, “I want international crude oil prices to surge in a short period of time, the sooner the better, ideally today!”
Steve wasn’t surprised, but respectfully asked charlie, “How much do you want crude oil prices to rise?”
charlie said, “At least 10%!”
Steve breathed a sigh of relief and confidently smiled, “Oh… that’s easy. Recently, we’ve been using the situation in the Strait of Hormuz to manipulate crude oil prices, causing them to fluctuate wildly. If we want to sell at high prices, we create tension there; if we want to buy at low prices, we promote peace talks. We sell a barrel of crude oil today, buy it tomorrow, and sell it again the day after. With the leverage of the futures market, after a few rounds, the capital doubles.”
charlie smiled and said, “So blatant?”
“This is nothing,” Steve said with a chuckle. “The President’s family are all stock market gurus, aren’t they? Ordinary people play the stock market by analyzing and predicting market trends, but top players don’t care about that. Top players create market trends.”
Steve continued, “Actually, the way the oil market works is very simple. We hardly participate in oil extraction and production. Apart from the Saudi royal family, most oil extraction is dirty and laborious work, and the profits are too slow. We mainly make money in the international futures market. And we don’t make money from price fluctuations, but from creating them. If there are many long positions, we create some situations in the Middle East to short the market. If there are many short positions, we create market trends to go long. If there are too many short positions, we fight; if there are too many long positions, we negotiate. We repeatedly blow up the positions of retail investors, and the money from those blown positions goes into our pockets. Manipulating oil prices is like controlling the volume of a TV with a remote control for us. You just need to tell me when it will rise and when it will fall.”
charlie nodded and smiled, saying, “That’s good. Please arrange it as soon as possible tonight. I want to see results in the shortest possible time.”“No problem,” Steve said respectfully. “I’ll arrange it.”
charlie smiled and said, “Okay, that’s all for now. Call Robert back for dinner.”
Steve said awkwardly, “I just sent that kid to Chinatown to buy roast goose. He probably won’t be back for at least an hour.”
“An hour?” charlie smiled helplessly. “You’re using him as a go-between.”
Steve laughed. “Once I become the head of the family, his whole family will have to run errands for me. Otherwise, I have plenty of ways to curb their income.”
charlie nodded and casually said, “Then you and Miss Getty can wait for him here. My sister and I will be going now.”
Steve was stunned and asked, “Aren’t you going to eat?”
charlie shook his head and said, “No, I’m not eating. Arrange a plane to take us to Miami.”
The Getty family made their fortune in Miami, and the core members of the family and the base of their businesses are all in Miami. charlie deduced that once Rachel passed on the inside information about the impending surge in oil prices to the Left Army Governor’s Office, the Left Army Governor’s Office would definitely send someone to meet with the Getty family.
What I need to do is to wait in Miami before the other party makes any move!