Indian equity benchmarks are likely to start Tuesday's session on a positive note tracking gains across global markets. At 7:57 am, Singapore Exchange (SGX) Nifty futures -- an early indicator of the Nifty50 index -- were up 84.5 points or 0.5 percent at 17,025, suggesting a gap-up opening ahead on Dalal Street.

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Equities across other Asian markets moved higher early on Tuesday after China pledged steps to support slowing economic growth. MSCI's broadest index of Asia Pacific shares outside Japan was up 0.6 percent.

Japan's Nikkei 225 index was up 1.3 percent, and China's Shanghai Composite gauge up 0.4 percent. Hong Kong's Hang Seng was up 1.2 percent, South Korea's KOSPI 0.3 percent and Singapore's Straits Times 0.3 percent.

S&P 500 futures were up 0.2 percent in Asia.

On Monday, the three main Wall Street indices ended 0.9-1.9 percent higher, as economy-linked banking and energy stocks charged back, and fear about the Omicron variant eased.

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:

Sudarshan Sukhani of s2analytics.com

Buy BEL with a stop loss at Rs 202.25

Buy Havells with a stop loss at Rs 1,335

Buy L&T Finance Holdings with a stop loss at Rs 75

Mitessh Thakkar of mitesshthakkar.com

Sell Lupin for a target of Rs 830-825 with a stop loss at Rs 872

Sell Divi’s Laboratories for a target of Rs 4,520 with a stop loss at Rs 4,691

Buy BEL for a target of Rs 215 with a stop loss at Rs 204

Buy NMDC for a target of Rs 149 with a stop loss at Rs 140

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