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Oil prices dipped on Monday carrying on its downtrend since last week on US demand worries amidst troubles in the subprime mortgage area.

New York’s main futures contract, light sweet crude for next month delivery went down 15 cents to USD 71.62 per barrel.

In London, the value of Brent North Sea crude for the coming month delivery came down 16 cents to settle at USD 70.23 a barrel.

For September delivery, natural gas also closed down USD 0.026 at USD 6.794 per million BTUs.

Surana Corporation has registered a significant jump in net profit for the quarter ended June 2007. The company declared a 49.07% profit growth to Rs 54.23 million from Rs 36.38 million in the corresponding period of the last year (2006).

The quarterly sales of the company slumped 38.35% to Rs 3,988.73 million as compared with the corresponding quarter, a year ago.

Operating margins augmented to 1.52% in the same quarter, which showed an increase of 26.50 basis points as against its previous quarter, a year ago.

On Dollar demand by Indian oil importers, the Indian Rupee closed flat against US currency.

The Indian unit that climbed up to 40.53 in the morning session gave up its advances on intense Dollar demand by Indian oil importers. Furthermore, foreign monetary funds also ramped up Dollar positions today further assisting the US currency in opposition to Rupee.

Moscow: In order to enhance its modest Russian juice market share, US snack and beverage giant PepsiCo is all set to get hold of 76 per cent of Russia’s leading juice maker, Lebedyansky for $2 billion.

PepsiCo is making concluding discussions over the acquisition that will be the biggest ever in the worldwide juice industry. The deal would have effect before the year end.

Rajesh Jain of Pranav Securities believes that it’s beneficial to hold Industrial Finance Corporation of India, IFCI at the moment. IFCI is a slow mover, but it has lots of potential to go up.

Jain told, "In the best of situation, if everything goes the right way then IFCI could give you almost a 50% gain from this point. If you look at the portfolio that IFCI has to offer to an investor at this point, there are NPs for which recoveries have started you could almost raise Rs 2,000-2,500 crore out of that. The hidden real estate value put anywhere between Rs 3,000-4,000 crore."

Ambala: Presently Sonalika group’s International Cars and Motors (ICML) is working on a sports utility vehicle (SUV) model for which it has joined hands with an international design house and will