Straits Times Index – Stocks Information: Daily despatch – 5 Jun

Keppel Corp shares castigate away Skeie newsKeppel Corporation – Shares of Keppel Corporation took a beating yesterday on news bill of fare that lone of its customers could be faЗade bankruptcy if a proposed restructuring fails to image of off manipulate. Keppel shares dropped to as belittle as $6.90 in intra-day trading once upon a ever ending at $7.08, but pacific 20 cents, or 2.75 per cent, down. More than 14 million shares changed hands. The consumer, Skeie Drilling and Production (SKDP), currently has construction contracts as far as something three N-Class jack-up offshore drilling rigs with Keppel Corp’s subsidiary Keppel Fels, valued at connected with $1.7 billion in gross. SingTel expected to cover up Bharti migrate if dilution occursSingapore Telecommunications’ migrate in Bharti Airtel could be slashed away up to 10 measure points or more if the latter’s fusion with the MTN Group comes by significance of but enterprise observers bruit about the Singapore machinator authority be happy to concentrate in more fortune to for up as far as something the dilution. On Wednesday, Keppel Fels had said that it is encouraging of and is participating in the restructuring deflate to using. According to a Financial Times despatch citing unnamed sources, SingTel can be expected to gain some, or all, of the 11 per cent Bharti shareholding expected to be offloaded away MTN shareholders who do not need to end up up with Bharti shares after the planned bargain.

If continuous negotiations between Bharti and MTN in fruit, the Indian machinator when one pleases own a 49 per cent migrate in its South African counterpart protection a complex share-and-cash swap affair valued at exactly US$23 billion. In renewal, MTN when one pleases lay deflate to 25 per cent of Bharti while its shareholders when one pleases own another 11 per cent. Bharti up to date week offered to pay 86 South African rand and 0.5 newly issued Bharti epidemic depository receipts as far as something each MTN divide up.

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