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On a Wednesday morning, a few days after his afternoon with Frances, Mario called to inform Eteo that the prospectus for Nostra Ventures had been filed and that they should hear from the regulators in three to four weeks. Eteo congratulated Mario for the speedy job he had done, and around noon, Mitch arrived with an equally positive update on the prospectus papers for Alexa Ventures. These were ready, too, and Mitch was taking them personally to the corporate guy upstairs.
Eteo called Cameron and asked him to take care of the new filing as soon as it came in, which he promised to do. A few colleagues from the back office and accounting called Eteo to ask if they could have some shares in Nostra Ventures. Susan was one of them, and Eteo promised a thousand shares to each. He advised them to contact their respective brokers, who would be the ones to write the actual orders. Then he put aside shares for Frances, as he had promised her, and another fifty thousand for John, the head trader, for allocating to a few of his buddies. Finally he reserved ten thousand shares for each of the dozen junior brokers Bradley had suggested to him.
Manolis Aligizakis 