The afternoon sun cutting through the tinted glass of Apex Plaza did little to warm the quiet intensity inside Jake Rivers's private office. On the primary desk monitor, the global gold spot chart remained completely flat, pinned to the 2,329.65 mark floor like a baseline waiting for the next catalyst.
Jake set his phone down on the desk, his mind already shifting from his uncle's ambitious one-trillion-mark valuation target for the Meridian Group back to the operational reality of the current hour. The 7.2 billion mark valuation surge for Meridian Group was a useful leverage point, but a true corporate expansion required a lot of liquidity.
The door to his office clicked open, and Alice walked in without checking the threshold. She held an open tablet, her face tight with a disciplined focus that usually accompanied a sudden shift in regulatory wind.
