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.

Jasper knocked the wooden hammer against the bell,

Ring!

and strong sound of the bell rang throughout

flashed maddeningly as they tried to commemorate

this moment, shares for the first internet enterprise from Somerland had moved on from the bursting of the dot-com

Its ticker—SENA!

the stage after they rang the bell.

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

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

the United States, most investors tended to buy

of 25 US dollars with 96 million US dollars

through

10% rise limit when it came to buying shares

Sena was formidable enough, its prices could rise instantly to 200

would

Impossibly hard.

market was no longer as crazy as it used to be before the burst of the dot-com

development slowed, trade also decreased in large exchange centers like Nasdaq, the Dow Jones Index, and the Nikkei

that investors were getting less enthusiastic and there was also less hot money in the markets compared to

rational and no longer rushed

Jasper’s calm facade was immense

center, Jasper watched

executives, and traders

with the scent of money

added to the pressure on Jasper’s

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

even Winston Benett would dare to make such a bet, let

with the long face?” Celine interrupted Jasper’s

laughed. “And here I am, worried about whether the share price will meet the

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 was to help contribute to your

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