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Essar Shipping plans delisting from BSE
Mumbai: Essar Shipping plans to delist from the Bombay Stock Exchange and the company has called a board meeting on December 2 to consider the proposal. The company said that it has received a letter from its major promoter Essar Shipping & Logistics Ltd (ESLL), intending to delist the shares of Essar Shipping from the BSE.
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Reliance Communication touches $20bn market cap
Mumbai: Anil Ambani held Reliance Communications has touched a market capitalisation of $20 billion. The RCL share has been gradually rising with the rise in the stock markets in the past couple of weeks and gained more than 2 per cent on December 1 to touch a new high of Rs438.80 in morning trade on the BSE taking its market capitalisation to Rs89,715.55 crore.

Reliance Energy also an Anil Ambani company rose 2.3 per cent to Rs540 on the BSE.
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LT Overseas IPO oversubscribed seven times
Mumbai: The initial public offer of Basmati rice manufacturer, LT Overseas was oversubscribed 7.18 times on the back of decent response from retail investors and institutional buyers.

The offer received 5.05 crore bids for 70.35 lakh shares, according to data available on the stock exchanges.

The retail investors' portion of the IPO was oversubscribed 7.69 times while the non-institutional investor's portion of the IPO got subscribed by over 4.29 times on the last day.

The price band for the issue had been fixed between Rs50-Rs56 per share.
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Nifty touches 4,000 in intraday trade
Mumbai: As the benchmark Sensex continued to rise on the BSE on Friday, gaining over 150 points to touch a high of 13,857.81 points the S&P CNX Nifty index crossed the 4,000 mark to later settled at 3,997.60.

Markets surged after the Central Statistical Organisation (CSO) yesterday reported a robust 9.2 per cent growth in July-September 2006, mainly on the strength of the performance of the manufacturing and services sector. The growth rate in the corresponding quarter last year was 8.4 per cent, while the 2006-07 first quarter growth was put at 8.9 per cent.

The 30-share index Sensex rose 148.47 points to finish at 13,844.78 compared to the previous close of 13,696.31.
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