** Shares of Bank of India BOI.NS up 4.8% to 119 rupees,
their highest since Feb. 27, 2018
** BOI's 45 billion rupees Qualified Institutional Placement
(QIP) issue was oversubscribed by 4.11 times
** Allottees in QIP include SBI Mutual Fund, Societe
Generale - ODI, Morgan Stanley Asia (Singapore) PTE, HDFC Life
Insurance and ICICI Prudential Life Insurance
** Stock above 50-, 100-, and 200- day moving avgs since
Dec. 1
** More than 22 mln shares traded, 1.8x their 30-day avg
** Day's spike pushes YTD gains to 35%, beating a 29% growth
in the Nifty PSU Bank Index .NIFTYPSU in the year
(Reporting by Aleef Jahan in Bengaluru)
((aleefjahan.cs@thomsonreuters.com))