** Engineering and consultancy firm RITES Ltd's RITS.NS
shares up as much as 3.1% to 707.50 rupees; last up 1.8%
** Company signs MoU with UltraTech Cement ULTC.NS for
project management consultancy services of rail infra projects
** UltraTech shares up 0.2%
** RITS set to snap two straight weeks of losses if trends
hold
** 2 of 5 brokerages rate stock "strong buy", 1 "sell", 1
"strong sell", 1 "hold"; median PT 683 rupees - LSEG
** Stock has been trading above its 200-day moving avg since
August 2022
** Including session's gain, RITES shares up ~39% YTD
(Reporting by Navamya Ganesh Acharya in Bengaluru)
((Navamya.GaneshAcharya@thomsonreuters.com; +91 8805175330))