Sensex marginally up, Nifty above 10,800 in early trade

New Delhi: The BSE Sensex jumped over 70 points while the Nifty reclaimed the 10,800-mark in opening trade on Tuesday on sustained buying by domestic institutional investors amid positive global cues.

The 30-share Sensex was trading marginally up by 32.93 points, to 35,516.40 in early trade. Similarly, the broad-based NSE Nifty edged up 14.90 points or 0.14 percent to 10,801.85.

Wipro, Dr Reddy, Adani Ports, Bharti Airtel, M&M, SBIN, Indusind Bank, Sun Pharma, Tata Motors, ITC, LT and TCS, rising up to 1.53 percent.

MSCI`s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan seesawed between positive and negative territory. It was last up 0.1 percent, while Japan`s Nikkei pared early gains to be up 0.6 percent.

South Korean shares rose 0.2 percent while Chinese shares pushed up slightly. Australian shares were a tad firmer.

The lead from Wall Street was mixed too, with the Dow barely changed, the S&P 500 up 0.1 percent and the Nasdaq adding 0.2 percent.

With Reuters Inputs