NEW DELHI: Equity benchmarks Sensex and Nifty50 were lacklustre around 12:45 pm on Tuesday as gains in Infosys, SBI and MM were offset by losses in ITC, HDFC twins, TCS and HUL.

Below are the trading ideas for today’s afternoon trade collated by ETMarkets.com: ICICI DirectTata Motors is a 'Buy' call with a target price of Rs 279.90 and a stop loss of Rs 272.30. Bajaj Finance is a 'Sell' call with a target price of Rs 2,571.20 and a stop loss of Rs 2,646.90. Alkem Laboratories is a 'Buy' call with a target price of Rs 2,270 and a stop loss of Rs 2,055. Greaves Cotton is a 'Buy' call with a target price of Rs 165 and a stop loss of Rs 149. V-Guard Industries is a 'Sell' call with a target price of Rs 183 and a stop loss of Rs 209. (Views and recommendations given in this section are the analysts' own and do not represent those of ETMarkets.com.

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