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Vishal Retail surges on listing
Mumbai:
Vishal Retail listed at Rs472 on the BSE, a premium of 74.8 per cent (Rs202) to its issue price of Rs270.

Early trades saw the stock zoom to a high of Rs809.

The stock is now trading at Rs757, and around 8.25 lakh shares have changed hands at the counter.
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Assets under management by MFs dip 3.17 per cent in June
Mumbai:
The assets under management (AUM) of the mutual fund industry saw a sharp decline in June, a drop of 3.17 per cent from May, as per the data released by the Association of Mutual Funds in India.

In May, MFs saw a record surge in assets, with the industry crossing the Rs50,000 crore-mark. The heavy inflows then were on account of surplus liquidity in the system, as call rates had dipped below one per cent and Fixed Maturity Products of mutual funds had gathered sizeable amounts of assets.

With liquidity returning to normalcy the money, which was earlier parked in liquid funds of very short durations by banks and other institutions, has flown out of the fund industry, contributing to the drop in assets.

The industry asset base for June stands at Rs4,00,842.12 crore from Rs4,13,968.65 crore in May.

ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund witnessed the steepest fall in AUM by Rs7,089.24 crore or 13.98 per cent. This is followed by Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund, which recorded a 17.68 per cent drop in AUM by Rs4,194.13 crore.

Reliance Mutual Fund, which gained Rs713.53 crore in June at Rs59,857.01 crore, continued to be the fund house with highest AUM for the fourth consecutive month. Following Reliance MF is ICICI Prudential MF at Rs43,613.76 crore, UTI MF at Rs39,031.87 crore, HDFC MF at Rs35,629.81 crore and Franklin Templeton MF at Rs26,469.44 crore.
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SBI to offer online share trading facility
New Delhi:
State Bank of India will formally launch an online share trading facility for its customers in Delhi on July 4. This facility would however be available at select branches only.
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HDIL oversubscribed 6.60. times on the BSE and NSE
Mumbai:
The initial public offering of Housing Development and Infrastructure Ltd was oversubscribed 6.60. times on the BSE and NSE at 7.30 pm.

A total of 19.60 crore bids were received against the issue size of 2.97 crore , while 1.31 crore bids were received at the cut-off price.

Bids were received across the price band of Rs430-Rs 500.

The qualified institutional buyers category was oversubscribed 10.13 times while the retail individual investors portion was subscribed 1.59 times.
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BEML subscribed over 30 times
The follow-on issue of Bharat Earth Movers Ltd was subscribed over 30 times, one day before its close.

A total of 15.01crore bids were received against the issue size of 49 lakh shares while 60.72 lakh bids were received at the cut-off price. Bids were received across the price band of Rs1,020-Rs1,090.

The QIB portion was subscribed 63.33 times while the retail investor portion was subscribed 3.19 times.
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V Guard plans IPO in Oct
Kochi:
Electrical and electronic appliances company, V Guard, is planning to come out with a Rs70-crore IPO in October.

The company said a part of the proceeds from the equity offer would be used for opening new factory in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. The remaining would be invested in creating a new cable factory, extending the distribution and service network mainly in North India and for creating improved R&D facilities.V Guard has a strong presence in the whole spectrum of voltage stabilisers, fans, pumps, cables, solar water heaters, electric water heaters and UPS in the South.

The company recorded a 31 per cent growth in sales turnover to Rs241 crore (Rs184 crore) and has targeted a turnover of Rs320 crore for the current year. Its net profit grew by 45 per cent to Rs13.32 crore last year, while gross profit recorded a 44 per cent growth to Rs20.49 crore. There was a fall in the EPS from Rs30.68 to Rs13.96 as on March 2007.
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