Rebirth of the Strongest Tycoon

After finishing the food arrangement, Xia Yu began to deal with the backlog.

He first picked up the summary table of major news events that Jiuding News Agency specially provided him to read.

Jiuding News Agency collects news from all over the world, big and small, and then uses it in different newspapers or TV stations according to the choice.

It would undoubtedly be unrealistic for Xia Yu to look at it like this, and he had no idle time either.

Therefore, since the establishment of Jiuding News Agency, it has been stipulated that major and relevant news should be listed separately and presented to him in a concise and clear format, so that he can control the changing international situation at any time.

From the day he went north, Xia Yu browsed slowly.

Facts have proved that Xia Yu's butterfly wings are not influential enough, and what should have happened in Iran still happened.

Just a few days after Xia Yu left, on November 4, more than 4,000 students from Tehran, the capital of Iran, with the support of Khomeini, occupied the US embassy, ​​tore down the American flag, and hung it up instead. XX Great" white flag and seized 66 American diplomats and American citizens as hostages for the United States to hand over the former King Pahlavi, which caused a huge sensation around the world.

International crude oil prices skyrocketed instantly.

Then U.S. President Jimmy Carter immediately put economic and diplomatic pressure on Iran, terminating oil imports from Iran on November 12, 1979, and some Iranians were expelled by the United States.

By November 14, about $8 billion worth of Iranian assets in the United States had been frozen.

The conflict further intensified, and in retaliation, Iran also imposed an oil embargo on the United States.

In just over ten days, the international crude oil price has risen to 26.2 US dollars a barrel, and the rise is still very fast.

Xia Yu immediately made a calculation in his heart.

Previously, the Galaxy Fund bought international crude oil futures worth US$4 billion at an average price of US$2.4 a barrel.

Now the value of this batch of crude oil futures has risen to 51.3 billion US dollars.

In just over ten days, the floating profit exceeded US$1.1 billion!

After getting this number, Xia Yu's mouth curved into a radian, and he was in a good mood.

"No hurry, no hurry, the price is still going up!"

On the other hand, international crude oil prices have skyrocketed, and Iran has imposed an oil embargo on the United States, which has led to a decrease in the amount of oil shipped from the Middle East to the United States, which has caused a certain impact on the tanker transportation industry.

Shares of several major shipping companies in Heung Kong were affected.

Although Huaguang Shipping is mainly engaged in container ships, it also has a lot of business in oil tanker transportation, which has also been impacted.

Seeing Huaguang Shipping, Xia Yu thought that he hadn't paid attention to the progress of the equity acquisition after so long, and he didn't know how Wang Qi was doing.

Thinking of this, Xia Yu spent more than an hour dealing with the backlog in his hands, and instructed the subordinates in the chairman's office to notify each company to receive the approved documents, and then planned to leave for Jiuding Securities Company.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he went out, he saw Gavin Peter walking over with a pile of documents. After seeing Xia Yu, he immediately squeezed out a smile and quickened his pace.

"It seems that I can't go to Jiuding Securities Company this morning."

Xia Yu secretly said in his heart.

Then he smiled and called Gavin Peter, who had not seen him for a long time, into the office.

After being seated, Xia Yu asked, "Gavin, when did you come back?"

Before, he arranged for Yan Wenhan and Gavin Peter to start the road of international expansion respectively, and then Gavin Peter went to Europe.

Gavin Peter said with a smile: "Chairman, I came back three days ago. I wanted to report the situation to you at that time. I learned that you haven't come back, so I came here today knowing that you are in the office."

"These days, I have traveled all over the European countries to check the situation in the publishing field of each country. This is an investigation report I wrote, please read it."

After speaking, Gavin Peter took out a report from a stack of documents,

Hands to Xia Yu.

Xia Yu took it and said, "There's coffee over there, you can pour it yourself, I'll take a look first!"

"OK!"

Gavin Peter replied, then got up and walked towards the coffee machine in the corner.

At this time, Xia Yu looked up slowly.

It was the late 1970s, the European economy was in a downturn, and the European people were struggling to live, not to mention spending on books and magazines.

For this reason, the market in the European publishing and media sector has been declining year after year.

The only one that has maintained rapid growth is West Germany.

According to the survey report, if you want to establish a foothold in the publishing industry in continental Europe, it is best to choose to establish a foothold in France, West Germany and Spain at the same time, build a foundation, and then enter other markets after it is stabilized.

The most important of these is West Germany, followed by France, and finally Spain.

Despite the fact that the two Germanys have not yet been unified, West Germans are the most willing to invest in spiritual civilization. Last year, the number of books published reached 62,414, making it the third largest publishing country in the world, second only to the United States and the red polar bear.

After analyzing the publishing market in Europe, the situation of the publishing market in West Germany, France and Spain is listed later.

In West Germany, according to the statistics of the West German Publishing Association, there are more than 2,100 publishing houses in the country, including 65 large publishing houses, more than 80 medium-sized publishing houses, and the rest are small publishing houses.

Publishing houses are mainly concentrated in three major publishing towns in West Germany, namely Stuttgart, Frankfurt and Cologne. At this time, the top five publishing companies in Germany are Bertelsmann Publishing Group, German Art Book Publishing House, and Holz. Brinker Publishing Group Inc., Springer Publishing Company, Karl Hanzel Publishing Company.

Behind each publishing company, Gavin Peter marked the characteristics, the prospects for analysis, the approximate value and the likelihood of being acquired.

In addition to publishing companies, the survey report also lists West Germany's national large-scale book wholesale companies, the country's top five large bookstores and so on.

After the West German publishing house, the French and Spanish ones are also listed.

It took Xia Yu nearly an hour to read the thick, nearly twenty-page investigation report.

But after reading it, Xia Yu had a clear impression of the publishing market in West Germany, France and Spain.

Putting down the investigation report in his hand, Xia Yu praised: "Gavin, you have done a solid job, well done!"

Gavin Peter smiled and said modestly, "This is my job, and it's what I should do."

In fact, the same is true. The better the investigation work in the early stage is, the more favorable it will be for the subsequent international expansion. There is also competition and comparison within the consortium. Of course, Gavin Peter does not want to be compared by others, and hopes to develop the company as much as possible. .

Xia Yu nodded with satisfaction, took a sip of tea and said, "Gavin, since your investigation is so clear, which companies are you planning to acquire, and why?"