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 The Singapore and Kuala Lumpur stock exchanges are bracing for a turbulent separation,
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 following Malaysian Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin's long-awaited announcement
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 On Friday, Datuk Daim added spice to an otherwise unremarkable address on Malaysia's proposed budget for 1990
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to cut its links with the Stock Exchange of Singapore.
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 The delisting of Malaysian-based companies from the Singapore exchange may not be a smooth process,
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 the exchanges aren't fully prepared to go their separate ways.
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 The finance minister's order wasn't sparked by a single event
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 and doesn't indicate a souring in relations between the neighboring countries.
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 Rather, the two closely linked exchanges have been drifting apart for some years, with a nearly five-year-old moratorium on new dual listings, separate and different listing requirements, differing trading and settlement guidelines and diverging national-policy aims.
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