How Infamous Short-Seller Carson Block Can Take On The Singaporean Government And Win by @lopezlinette

How Carson Block Can Take On Singapore

How Infamous Short-Seller Carson Block Can Take On The Singaporean Government And Win by @lopezlinette

Singapore-based commodity firm Olam, is near and dear to the Singaporean government's heart. Temasek, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, just upped its stake in the company to 18% this week. It's an indication of what the government, controlled by the unyielding Lee family, is willing to do to ensure that Block's call does not sink the company. Since Block's report, Olam announced it would offer $750 million in bonds and $500 million in warrants. Temasek could end up owning as much as 29% of the company, Bloomberg reports, if it exercises all the warrants in 2016. So clearly, Temasek is not backing down. And in Singapore that means the Lees are not backing down, especially since Ho Ching, the head of the fund, is Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's wife. Lee Hsien's father, Lee Kuan Yew is considered the founder of modern Singapore and became the country's first Prime Ministe...

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