Indian equity benchmarks are likely to start Thursday's session on a negative note. At 8:45 am, Singapore Exchange Nifty futures -- an early indicator of the Nifty50 index -- were down 95 points or 0.6 percent at 17,150, suggesting a gap-down opening ahead on Dalal Street.

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Asian shares edged higher in choppy trading on Thursday, helped by advances in Chinese real estate shares, though fears about the Omicron variant of the new coronavirus capped gains regionally. MSCI's broadest index of Asia Pacific shares outside Japan was up 0.4 percent at the last count.

China's Shanghai Composite was up 0.2 percent, South Korea's KOSPI up 0.7 percent and Hong Kong's Hang Seng up 0.3 percent. Japan's Nikkei 225 was down one percent and Singapore's Straits Times down 0.2 percent.

S&P 500 futures were up 0.6 percent in Asian trade.

On Wednesday, the three main Wall Street indices fell 1.2-1.8 percent, as investors fretted about the latest coronavirus variant and the first evidence of its US arrival while they also digested Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's comments on surging inflation.

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 Navin Fluorine with a stop loss below Rs 3,520

Buy Tech Mahindra with a stop loss below Rs 1,550

Buy Laurus Labs with a stop loss below Rs 495

Mitessh Thakkar of mitesshthakkar.com

Buy TCS for a target of Rs 3,620 with a stop loss at Rs 3,544

Buy Chambal Fertilisers for a target of Rs 410 with a stop loss at Rs 390

Sell Dabur for a target of Rs 560 with a stop loss at Rs 582.5

Sell ACC for a target of Rs 2,200 with a stop loss at Rs 2,275

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(Edited by : Sandeep Singh)