Teacher:In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question about the events that may happen before or after a certain event. For example, "earning money" usually appears before "spending money". Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: Sentence: Meridian National Corp. said it sold 750,000 shares of its common stock to the McAlpine family interests, for $1 million, or $1.35 a share. 
Question: What happened to the stock price of Meridian National Corp. after the trade?
Student:
it went up.