Shares below Rs 100: Only buyers were seen in these stocks on January 13!

About 1,993 shares have advanced, 1,487 declined and 154 are unchanged. 

The Wall Street indices ended the session higher overnight because US inflation has slowed again and the Federal Reserve has room to slow the pace of interest-rate hikes next month. In contrast, Indian Domestic indices started the session down but reversed earlier losses to trade higher. 

On Friday, amid volatility, the benchmark indices were trading higher. About 1,993 shares have advanced, 1,487 declined and 154 are unchanged. 

At 13:30 pm, BSE Sensex was trading higher, up around 303.15 points or 0.51 per cent at a level of 60,261.18 and NSE Nifty-50 also was trading higher, up around 98.40 points or 0.55 per cent at 17,956.60. 

The top BSE Sensex gainers were Tata Steel Ltd, IndusInd Bank Ltd and Infosys Ltd whereas today’s BSE Sensex losers were Larsen & Toubro Ltd, Nestle India Ltd and Titan India Ltd. 

Foreign institutional investors (FII) net sold shares worth Rs 1,662.63 crore on January 12, the 15th session in a row but domestic institutional investors (DII) net bought shares worth Rs 2,127.65 crore, offsetting the FII outflow. 

Following is the list of low-priced stocks that were locked in the upper circuit on January 13: 

Investors should keep an eye on these stocks.