As expected, the newly issued Suez Canal Company shares did not sell well. Everyone was sitting on piles of trapped stocks and scrambling to liquidate them—why would they keep jumping into another pit?
Even those sharp-eyed enough to see the Suez Canal's future potential did not necessarily have money in their pockets.
Few showed any interest in Suez Canal shares, yet every day's newly issued stocks were sold. The shrewd Jürgen soon noticed that someone was quietly snapping them up.
However, he decisively chose to keep his mouth shut. He then took out his savings and quietly bought a batch himself, planning to make a fortune without a sound.
Unfortunately, he had miscalculated. Franz was not manipulating the market this time—he was investing. The canal shares were only being bought, never sold; driving up the share price was simply out of the question.
There was no media hype, not even a basic announcement. Everyone only knew that this was an official joint project between France and Austria, and nothing more.
There was no helping it. The project had not even broken ground yet, and both sides were still raising funds. Other than a set of design plans that had long been made public, there was nothing.
Under normal circumstances, a project like this would not even qualify for public financing through a stock listing. How could it possibly be enthusiastically sought after?
Especially since the canal's investment now far exceeded that of the same period in history, greatly increasing the project's risks. The Paris stock market was equally cold. If Franz had not been buying, whether the shares could have been sold at all would have been a question.
In many people's eyes, this project was simply a political undertaking. The two governments had joined forces to push it forward