New Delhi, Aug. 25 -- Of the seventeen large Indian companies this series follows, the one trading closest to its own 52-week high on Tuesday morning is also the one almost nobody is trading. ICICI Bank has turned over about a third of its usual volume, and it is doing so within four and a half percent of the best price it has fetched in a year.

28 IST, down Rs.2.00 or 0.14 percent on Monday's close of Rs.1,415.00, and at Rs.1,413.85 on the BSE. It opened at Rs.1,408.00, which was also its low for the morning, reached Rs.1,420.00 and settled back. Volume was 6.90 lakh shares. These are live intraday figures from a session that settles at 15:30 IST, and none of them is a closing price.

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