MUMBAI, Aug. 25 -- Steel Authority of India has already traded more shares this morning than it does on an ordinary full day. Not more than the first hour of an ordinary day. More than all of it, with better than five hours of the session still to run.

That is the figure worth carrying out of Tuesday's opening stretch, and what makes it awkward is that nothing has come out of the company to explain it.

SAIL was quoted at Rs.183.48 on the National Stock Exchange at 10:28 IST, up Rs.3.83 or 2.13 percent on Monday's close of Rs.179.65, and at Rs.183.40 on the BSE. It opened at Rs.180.70, has ranged between Rs.180.30 and Rs.185.45, and had turned over 2.94 crore shares. Every figure here is live intraday data from a session that does not se...