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.

9:30 a.m. in the United States, and Jasper knocked the wooden hammer against the bell, signifying the

Ring!

the bell rang throughout the entire

cheers, the reporters’ cameras flashed maddeningly as they tried

enterprise from Somerland had moved on from the bursting of the dot-com bubble and registered itself at Nasdaq

Its ticker—SENA!

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

a little nerve-wracking.” A senior executive sucked in a deep breath and

here normally pay more attention to the pre-IPO on the first day of trading

investors tended to buy shares of new businesses through

an issue price of 25 US dollars with 96

through pre-IPO, the higher the price would

a 10% rise limit when it

formidable enough, its prices could rise instantly

difficult would that

Impossibly hard.

share market was no longer as crazy as it used to be before

development slowed, trade also decreased in large exchange centers like Nasdaq, the

proved that investors were getting less enthusiastic and there was

rational

Jasper’s calm facade was immense

Jasper watched the

ways to interview Sena’s senior executives, and traders had

room was filled with the scent of money

which added to the pressure

price of 25 US dollars had to grow at least five times to exceed 120 US

would dare to make such a bet, let alone

with the long face?”

am, worried about whether the share

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 was to help contribute to your cash flow. From the hype we’ve garnered over

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