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Though SPH received a competing offer from the Cuscaden Peak consortium to rival Keppel's offer, investors wrote to the Securities Investors Association of Singapore, with worries that the bids actually undervalue the company. In fact, Sembcorp Marine also dealt with a mandatory bid from Temasek that was well below its Net Asset Value as well.David Gerald, the CEO of SIAS, joined us on Prime Time to talk about these bids, what concerns SPH investors raised about the SPH offers, and what retail investors can do if a bid comes in below some valuation metrics.

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In The Spotlight, host Timothy Go and Rachel Kelly spoke to Audrey Tinline, Senior Journalist, BBC about COP26 and other stories they are tracking this week.

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In The Straits Times’ The Big Story, Assistant Video Editor Olivia Quay spoke to Dr Liew Woei Kang, consultant paediatrician at the Paediatric Allergy Immunology Rheumatology Centre on whether parents need to be worried that their child will contract the multi-system inflammatory syndrome after four children in Singapore - infected with Covid-19 - have also come down with MIS-C.

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On Forex Fridays, JP Ong spoke with Mizuho's Head of Economics and Strategy, Vishnu Varathan, about the Federal Reserve's widely expected announcement to begin tapering its massive bond buying program. He discusses tapering versus hiking rates, the different stances of the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Bank of England in their recent decisions, and the Singapore Dollar's outlook against rising inflation.

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In The Spotlight, Prime Time's Rachel Kelly spoke to Tan Siew Lee, Head of Wealth Management Singapore, OCBC Bank to find out how the Covid-19 pandemic has shaped Singaporean’s spending habits.

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