SINGAPORE - SMRT Corp continued extended yesterday's slide following news that state-linked investment company Temasek Holdings will sell part of its stake in the transport firm at a discounted price, dealers said.
SMRT was down 0.01 sgd or 0.89 pct at 1.12 on top volume of 111.18 mln shares.
Temasek announced it will place 110 mln shares to unidentified institutional investors at a discounted price of 1.11 sgd each. SMRT's shares closed at 1.16 sgd on Tuesday.
The placement shares are equivalent to 7.3 pct of SMRT's outstanding stock.
Temasek said it will raise about 122 mln sgd from the placement exercise. After the sale Temasek said its stake in SMRT will be cut to 54.8 pct from 62. 1 pct.
Stupid Temasek.....Now my portfolio go down some more...
If want to sell, sell at Market Price lah. Why sell below market price? This kind of move by Temasek will harm the value of SMRT shares...