The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, December 17, 2005

Gulf Oil allots convertible warrants
HYDERABAD: Gulf Oil Corporation Ltd has informed the stock exchanges that its board of directors on Thursday has allotted 5 lakh convertible warrants each to Teck Consultancy & Services Pvt Ltd and Esquire Pvt Ltd at a price of Rs 505 a ... More

MUTUAL FUNDS

MFs' exposure in equities doubles to Rs 70,846 cr
THE rising stock markets coupled with declining yields from debt are encouraging mutual funds to shift their investments focus towards equities. The assets under management (AUM) in equities by mutual funds rose by 119.24 per cent to Rs 70,846 ... More

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS

Bulls prevail
THE sentiment reading of the tradable counters changed to bullish. Bear domination on Monday is likely to change the sentiment reading in its favour. On the contrary, the bullish sentiment is likely to be strengthened. Nifty Futures ... More

STOCK MARKETS

New listings attract funds
THE recently-listed IPOs - AIA Engineering and Everest Kanto Cylinder - are attracting a lot of institutional investors' interest since they got listed earlier this week. On Friday too there was active buying in these companies' shares. ... More

GSFC remains on firm ground thanks to expansion plans
GUJARAT State Fertilizer & Chemicals (GSFC), which went up by one per cent to Rs 156, is hovering around its 52-week high of Rs 167. The stock is ruling firm as it is reportedly exploring the viability of expansion in caprolactam, melamine, ... More

COMMENTARY

Winning streak continues 7th week in a row
MARKETS closed on a positive note and continued its winning streak for the seventh week in a row. The BSE Sensex closed at 9284.5 - up 114 points or 1.2 per cent. Markets started on a cautious note on Friday morning carrying forward the ... More

IPOS

IA signs LI for purchase of 43 Airbus aircraft
INDIAN Airlines on Friday signed a Letter of Intent (LI) with the European aircraft manufacturer Airbus Industrie for purchase of 43 aircraft. The agreement was signed here by the airline's Chairman and Managing Director, Ms Sushma Chawla, and ... More

PUBLIC OFFER

Names of banned applicants in ICICI Bank issue removed
A SCRUTINY of the applicants to the ICICI Bank issue has yielded the names of three or four investors who are among the 13 individuals and entities banned by SEBI from trading in YES Bank shares yesterday. These names have been removed from the ... More

ECONOMIC OFFENCES

NSDL to probe into Karvy-DP records for IPO abuse
THE National Securities Depository Ltd (NSDL) on Friday said its detailed inspection of the records of Karvy Stockbroking Ltd (Karvy-DP) would help in ascertaining whether the practice of opening multiple dematerialised accounts to misuse retail ... More

Karvy-DP calls for deeper probe into other IPO allotments
EVEN as the Indian stock markets were taken aback with the Yes Bank IPO allotment scam unearthed by the SEBI on Thursday, Karvy Depository Participant (DP) has said that such IPO allotment scams were not ruled out. The market regulator has ... More

YES Bank clarification
YES Bank today said the SEBI findings on manipulation in its shares are part of the IPO allotment process and the "bank is not the specific subject of any scam." Referring to the SEBI order on manipulation in the YES Bank IPO shares, the Bank ... More

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