Stocks in news: Euro Ceramics, PNB, Siemens

Stocks in news:

• Board meetings:
  Euro Ceramics on expansion plans, raising funds
• Ex-dividend:
  Prime Securities (Rs 1.50/sh) and United Breweries Holdings (Re 1/sh)
• Ex-bonus:
  Vinati Organics at 1:2
• PNB board approves PNB Gilts to prepare a scheme of merger with the bank
• Indian ADRs:
  VSNL, Sterlite down 9%; ICICI Bank down 7%, HDFC Bank, Satyam, MTNL down 6%
• Results today:
  Siemens Q4
• NSE bars further F&O positions in NIIT Tech as 95% of marketwide limit reached
• Still in F&O curb:
  Essar Oil, Adlabs Films, RPL, IFCI & Alok Industries
• Out of F&O curb:
  Neyveli and Arvind Mills
• Deepak Parekh says lending rates may not come down ‘right away’
• Dr Reddy's
  Dr Reddy's, US-based Ceragenix sign distribution-supply agreement for topical skin treatment cream Epiceram
  Dr Reddy’s to receive royalty on net sales upon commercialisation of Epiceram
• New listing:
  Varun Industries
  Venus Ventures to resume trading; base price Rs 10.50; circuit filter 5%
• Jyothy Laboratories IPO opens today; offer of 44.3 lakh shares; price band Rs 620-690
• Renaissance Jewellery IPO subscribed 23.63 times
• Kolte Patil Developers IPO closes today; subscribed 2.69 times till now
• Puravankara bags Rs 630 cr land deal in Hyderabad
• Ranbaxy gets Canada OK to make, mkt tamsulosin hydrochloride drug: NW18
• Ranbaxy has reached out-of-court settlement for innovator drug, 3rd such agreement this year, to get 180-day exclusivity to market generic version of drug in US - ET
• Idea Cellular head Sanjeev Aga says
  Held preliminary talks with DoT, no concrete proposal from DoT on spectrum allocation
• Jindal Steel & Power board approves splitting FV of shares from Rs 5 to Re 1
• Apollo Sindhoori Capital board approves private placement of 6.35 lakh shares at minimum Rs 550/sh to overseas corporate bodies
• Pioneer Embroideries ties up with Sunteck Realty & Infrastructure to develop its property in Mumbai
• Logix Microsystems board meet on Nov 24 to consider:
  Issue of shares against acquisition of majority interest in co in US
  Issue of warrants on preferential basis to strategic investors
• Alok Industries wins bid for JV with National Textile Corporation for revival of textile mills
• Andrew Yule to divest stakes in Tide Water Oil, Dishergarh Power Supply & Phoenix Yule to unlock value, to also spin off electrical and engineering division into separate cos - ET
• Tata Capital likely to buy 32% stake in Precision Camshafts for Rs 36cr - ET
• Tata Motors working on electric version of Indica in Europe, launch by 2009 - BL
• Foreign Inflows may be tightened further, to include cap on ECBs, currency hedging - Mint