** Shares of Adani Group-owned Ambuja Cements ABUJ.NS jump
as much as 7.6% to a 10-month high of 510.4 rupees
** If current trend holds, stock set for sixth straight
session of gains - its longest winning streak since July-end
** ABUJ says it completed acquisition of Sanghi Industries
SNGI.NS at an enterprise value of 51.85 bln rupees ($621.91
million)
** Co says deal to expand ABUJ's consolidated capacity to
74.6 MTPA from 68.5 MTPA
** ABUJ stock among top gainers in Nifty Infrastructure
Index .NIFTYINFR
** ABUJ advances as part of a rally in which other
Adani-owned companies have also gained
** More than 9.3 mln shares traded, 3.6x their 30-day avg
** Stock down ~4% YTD vs a 31% gain in the Nifty
infrastructure index .NIFTYINFR
($1 = 83.3720 Indian rupees)
(Reporting by Rama Venkat in Bengaluru)
((ramavenkat.raman@thomsonreuters.com; https://twitter.com/ramavenkat0607;))