Life at the Top

Chapter 787

Time ticked by and it was now only three more minutes until the market opened and Sena went public. Jasper had been invited onto the temporarily built stage.

The stage was right under the largest main screen in Nasdaq Exchange Center, which was at the center of the room.

Under everyone’s attentive gaze, Jasper and Jack got on stage.

In the middle of the stage was a large bell.

Since Nasdaq Exchange’s founding, every business that went public would have its legal personality ring this bell.

It was a tradition as much as it was a symbol.

The electronic screen continued to display worlds of welcome like ‘Nasdaq welcomes Sena’ while hundreds of traders had already gotten into position. There were a few dozen reporters holding their cameras, waiting to take a picture of this historical moment.

Jasper accepted a wooden hammer from a manager in the exchange center and was just about to invite Jack to ring the bell with him when he saw the other shake his head with a smile.

“You should ring the bell yourself, Mr. Laine,” Jack spoke.

Although he was stunned, Jasper saw the shine in Jack’s eyes and did not insist. “Alright then.”

Everyone looked up and focused on the electronic screen that covered the entire wall. It displayed both Nasdaq’s and Sena’s logo, as well as an analog clock.

The second hand of the clock ticked continuously until it was almost racing to 9:30 a.m.

“5…

“4…

“3…

“2…

“1…”

Hundreds of people counted down at the same time in the exchange Center.

the United States, and Jasper knocked the wooden hammer against the bell, signifying the opening of

Ring!

and strong sound of the

maddeningly as

from Somerland had moved on from the bursting of the dot-com

Its ticker—SENA!

from the stage after they rang the bell. They began to pay attention to the

A senior executive sucked in a deep breath and felt a little

relaxed as he smiled and said, “The share market in the United States has different rules compared to the markets back home. New shares here normally pay more attention to the pre-IPO on the first day of trading and the more shares bought pre-IPO make for a higher share price. It’ll take some time before

investors tended to buy shares of new

US dollars with 96

more shares bought by investors through pre-IPO, the higher

not a 10% rise limit when it came to buying shares

formidable enough, its prices could rise

difficult would that

Impossibly hard.

it used to be before the burst of

large exchange centers like Nasdaq, the

that investors were getting less enthusiastic and there was also less hot money

rational and no

facade was

center, Jasper watched the scene before him

ways to interview Sena’s senior executives, and traders had already begun receiving phone calls while starting a new day of

room was filled with the scent

which added to the pressure on

grow at least five times to exceed

Winston Benett would dare to make such

the long face?”

expression and laughed. “And here I am, worried about whether the share price

Celine pinched Jasper’s shoulder and beamed at him. “Don’t worry about it. So what if it doesn’t hit the target we set? The point of Sena going public

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