KUALA LUMPUR: The domestic market started cautiously on Tuesday after the previous day's selling as investors awaited the corporate results period to hit its stride.

At the opening bell, the benchmark FBM KLCI was up 0.76 points to 1,610.02, mimicking the marginal increase on major US indices overnight. How4ever, the rebound on the index picked up to over five points within the first five minutes to 1,614.36, on the back of a jump in blue chips such as Maybank and Tenaga Nasional.