Key benchmarks made positive start on Wednesday with Nifty trading above 10,860 mark. The Indian rupee is trading at 70.45 against greenback. Looking to the commodity space, the crude oil is seeing buying interest today as crude prices rose by near 1 percent today OPEC announced that it had cut supply in January.

The BSE Sensex trade higher 122 points at 36,276, whereas the NSE Nifty 50 rose 27 points at 10,858-mark during morning session at 10.00 am.

Adani Ports, Indiabulls, Sun Pharma, ITC and HDFC are trading up on the NSE, while Bharti Infratel, Hindustan Petrolium, Bhara Petrolium, Hero MotoCorp and Mahindra & Mahindra are trading on lower circuit.

Sectoral stocks on the NSE were trading on a mixed with marginal decline were seen in Auto, IT, Media, Metal and PSU Bank. On the other hand, Bank, Financial Service, FMCG, Pharma and realty stock rise upto near one percent.

Sun Pharma stocks advance by more than 2 percent after the company reported strong earning set of numbers.