By: Lee Chin Wai aka (The) Boring Investor
Blog: http://boringinvestor.blogspot.com/

Chin Wai has been investing for over 20 years. He was introduced to the stock market even earlier by his father and has witnessed the Oct 1987 crash and the 1997/98 Asian Financial Crisis. He himself has survived the 2000-2003 dot.com/ Sep-11/ SARS crisis and the 2007/08 Global Financial Crisis. He has a Masters degree in Applied Finance and passed all 3 levels of the CFA exams. Chin Wai blogs at (The) Boring Investor (www.boringinvestor.blogspot.com).

This is a question that the market always speculates about.

It is also speculation that I occasionally engage in. Sometimes, I am bemused by such speculations.

Speculating on a merger is akin to saying that a particular boy and girl are a match made in heavens, without asking either of them whether they are interested in each other!

So, are Keppel Corp and SembCorp Marine really interested in each