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

Ring!

of the

cameras flashed maddeningly as they tried to commemorate this

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

Its ticker—SENA!

rang the bell. They began to pay attention to the changes in share

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

New shares here normally pay more attention to the pre-IPO on the first day of trading and the more shares bought

investors tended to buy shares of new businesses

issue price of 25 US dollars with

by investors through pre-IPO,

a 10% rise

was formidable enough, its prices could rise instantly to 200

difficult would that

Impossibly hard.

longer as crazy as it used to be before

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

and there was also less hot money

rational

facade was

center, Jasper watched the scene before

ways to interview Sena’s senior executives, and traders had already begun receiving phone

room was filled with the scent

of which added to the pressure on

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

to make such a

with the long face?”

to see Celine’s relaxed expression and laughed. “And here I am, worried about whether the share price will meet the requirements when you’re acting like it has

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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