Buy or sell: Gift Nifty signals gap-up start, Vaishali Parekh recommends three stocks to buy today

Indian benchmark indices ended lower on Friday with the Nifty 50 settling at 24,013.10, down 0.64 percent, dragged by heavy selling in IT and select banking stocks, while pharma and metals held up. Gift Nifty is signalling a gap-up start of around 150 points for Monday's session, trading near 24,165. Analyst Vaishali Parekh of Prabhudas Lilladher recommends buying Hindalco Industries at Rs 1,016, HDFC Life at Rs 593, and Lenskart at Rs 510 for intraday trades, with Bank Nifty support seen at the 57,000 level.