Indian equity benchmarks gave up initial gains in a choppy session on Friday. The Sensex fell as much as 436 points from its intraday high to hit 58,321.1 on the downside, and the Nifty50 benchmark dropped to as low as 17,362.2, having climbed to as high as 17,489.8 earlier on Friday. Gains in IT shares were offset by losses in consumer and select financial stocks.

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Equities across most other Asian markets fell amid concerns about the Omicron variant of COVID-19, with MSCI's broadest index of Asia Pacific shares down 0.7 percent in early hours. Japan's Nikkei 225 was down 0.1 percent and Hong Kong's Hang Seng down one percent.

China's Shanghai Composite was up 0.3 percent, Singapore's Straits Times up 0.1 percent and South Korea's KOSPI up 0.3 percent.

S&P 500 futures were down half a percent in Asian trade. On Thursday, the three main Wall Street indices closed 0.8-1.8 percent higher.

CNBC-TV18’s in-house panel of experts has picked a list of stocks for investors to buy/sell in trade today. Here are the top buy-sell calls by market experts:

Shrikant Chouhan of Kotak Securities

Buy Tata Motors for a target of Rs 495-500 with a stop loss at Rs 467

Buy SRF for a target of Rs 2,250 with a stop loss at Rs 2,000

Mitessh Thakkar of mitesshthakkar.com

Buy HUL for a target of Rs 2,420 with a stop loss at Rs 2,350

Sell Dabur for a target of Rs 562 with a stop loss at Rs 586

Buy Coal India for a target of Rs 165-166 with a stop loss at Rs 155.5

Sell Crompton for a target of Rs 415 with a stop loss at Rs 441

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(Edited by : Sandeep Singh)

First Published:Dec 3, 2021 9:38 AM IST