** Personal finance firm NerdWallet's shares NRDS.O open
nearly 31% above offer price in Nasdaq market debut, valued at
$1.5 bln
** San Francisco, California-based co's shares open at $23.5
** Co sold 7.25 mln shares priced at $18 a piece, at the
midpoint of the price range announced earlier, raising $130.5
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** Morgan Stanley, BofA Securities, KeyBanc Capital Markets,
Barclays and Citigroup are among joint bookrunners for offering
(Reporting by Manya Saini in Bengaluru)
((Manya.Saini@thomsonreuters.com;))