v4 Chapter 785： lack of food

785、The food problem

Food has always been the biggest problem in the world. Although there is no food crisis in China, according to the WHO survey, the number of hungry people in the world has reached 1.02 billion.

What is this concept? According to the global population of 7 billion, one in seven people is still hungry, which means that one in seven people is hungry.

Most of these people are located in the war or the "third world". Although they have rich resources, they are constantly exploited by ruthless capital, which leads to countless people living in poverty.

International grain merchants don't care about the lives of these people. What they care about is whether the price of grain can rise sharply. When the time comes, they will continue to cooperate with the bears to harvest a wave. The grain market is up to them.

Back in 2008, they planned to do it on such a large scale. Unfortunately, the Asian region at that time just ushered in a bumper harvest, so they had to stop halfway through the implementation of the plan.

But this time is different. This time is the global food shortage announced by the WHO, so they feel that this is a golden opportunity, so the international food businessmen united the international shorts and longs to plan a "washout".

The first thing they targeted was the polar bear.

Polar bears are sparsely populated, and food reserves have always been a weakness. So their first target is the "polar bear" that has already faded away.

The international grain merchants and the international crocodile first began to buy a large amount of polar bear food, and the food futures on the polar bear market have been swept away in just one day.

Futures on European staples such as corn, wheat and soybeans were up 15% in a day without any sell orders.

The polar bears quickly started to "stabilize" the market. They threw out a lot of grain reserves to stabilize the market price, but the harvest was very small.

Take corn as an example. In just one day, the price of corn has risen from $6.97 a bushel to $8.50, and there is not even a single sell order in the futures market.

Seeing this, many investors began to do more grain markets one after another. When the market closed in the evening, the price of corn had reached US$9.87 a bushel, which made countless people taste the sweetness and continue to do more.

At this time, Liu Changcan, who was in the company, was dumbfounded. The corn he bought for 10 million US dollars had risen to more than 13 million US dollars in just a few hours. At this time, he was already frightened.

This time, he invested a total of more than 30 million US dollars to buy corn, wheat and soybeans. Now the income has reached 7 million US dollars. After thinking about it, Liu Changcan did not hesitate to throw them all.

Just as he cleared the warehouse, the price of all grain began to plummet.

Before everyone could react, the price of grain in the market had fallen back to the previous price, and the corn had fallen even more miserably to $5 a bushel.

The bulls in the futures market exploded their positions one after another, while the international grain merchants opened their mouths and began to cooperate with the international crocodiles to nibble away this group of "leeks".

The food fluctuation this time has made many countries start to be vigilant, and they are planning to enter the market to stabilize their local market.

But what they didn't expect was that when the market opened the next day, the price of food rose again, which made countless people who wanted to get rid of the situation cut their flesh to stop the bleeding.

But this time, the grain futures were the same as last time. When there was still 1 dollar from the previous price, it fell back again, and even fell by 0.5 US dollars from the opening price.

Anyone with discernment knows that this is the "banker" who has started to wash the market. Although they know that it is a wash, no one dares to stay in this market. After all, this thing is too exciting, and people with bad hearts can't stand it.

So after washing the stock three times, almost all retail investors and some institutions sold off, except for the grain reserve bureaus of some countries.

No way, the next situation is not something they can bear. Of course, there are "daring" people who want to stay in and get a piece of the pie, but it's up to them to persevere.

In the Tang Mansion Villa, Zhou Xu was reporting today's situation to Tang Wen.

"Boss, today there are six major grain merchants, including 32 international crocodiles. The funds used are more than 1.8 trillion US dollars, and the leverage is unknown."

Tang Wen smiled and said, "This group of people really dare to fight, they dare to play with a trillion-dollar knife." The madness of these people was beyond Tang Wen's expectations.

Although the size of the grain market seems to be hundreds of billions of dollars, if it needs to be fully controlled, it will require too much capital.

Even the people in the European Union want to fight against such a behemoth. Except for the crazy money-printing guy in the United States, if other people want to play such a game, it is undoubtedly their own death.

The most striking thing is that the six major grain merchants are all dispatched this time. These six major grain merchants control the grain prices in Europe, North America and Africa. The grain prices in other countries except Asia are basically played by these people.

When these people join forces, they are not ordinary people.

The grain futures market has been completely "suspended" by them. The first thing to collapse is that the prices of Europe, America and polar bears have begun to soar.

In particular, a polar bear can sell a cabbage for $2, and a bag of bread doubles. Prices in the United States and the European Union are even worse. Not to mention the doubling of vegetable prices, the minimum price of staple foods is tripled.

These international grain merchants hold a lot of futures and just don't put them on the market, and they also control the export of grains, causing the entire North America and Africa to fall into a "panic".

In order to survive, everyone began to hoard food recklessly, resulting in a large shortage of food on the market and out of stock. Although the government has been throwing out reserves to stabilize market prices, there is no import and only rely on existing reserves. Many countries cannot survive three months.

Europe and the United States have no choice but to find food merchants and ask them to import food. However, these people are chomping at the poor harvest this year, and the import reserves are not enough.

Because of the "east wind" of the WHO this time, everyone thought that this year's global grain harvest was in short supply, so the price of grain continued to rise.

The Ministry of Commerce in Europe and the United States also helped to "publicize" this year's poor grain harvest because it was "managed" by grain merchants in advance, which is really a raccoon dog.

After this group of people "harvested" in Europe and the United States, they gradually turned their attention to the far Asian region.

This is their biggest battlefield, but what they don't know is that coming to Asia may be their biggest wrong choice.