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Infy pays $94.1 a share to participants in AD issue
Bangalore: Bringing down the curtains on its secondary American Depository Share (ADS) issue, Infosys Technologies has paid out the proceeds to those who had participated in the issue. Shareholders who tendered their shares were paid Rs 4,333.16 or $94.1 per share. The price was arrived at after deducting the issue expense which was $11.7m (3.8%) of the total issue size.
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Patent pact stir up pharma stocks
Mumbai: Pharmaceutical companies were in limelight in the markets yesterday after the landmark agreement between US and a group of countries including India that would relax patent regulations on some drugs.

Brokers and analysts said if this agreement were approved by WTO, it would be very positive for the Indian pharmaceuticals companies.
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Luxottica to make open offer for Ray Ban India
Mumbai: The Securities Appellate Tribunal today asked Luxottica Group SpA to make an open offer to the shareholders of Ray Ban Sun Optics India Ltd, makers of Ray Ban brand eyewear, to buy 20 per cent equity of the company with April 28, 1999, as the reference date for calculating the offer price. Stock dealers estimate that the price would work out to about Rs 105 per share excluding interest.
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JM Mutual to launch two new funds
Hyderabad: Moving away from the traditional practice of introducing plain vanilla schemes, JM Mutual Fund, one of the country's leading funds in the private sector with assets under management of around Rs 4,000 crore, is now getting ready to tap the market with index fund and an aggressive equity fund during the current fiscal.
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LIC Mutual moots floating rate fund
Kolkata: LIC Mutual Fund has mooted a floating rate fund that will, under normal circumstances, allocate a minimum 40 per cent of its assets to floating rate securities or fixed rate securities swapped for floating debt or money market instruments.
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