Despite the rebound, market breadth remained weak, with 1,379 advances against 1,915 declines, indicating broad-based selling pressure beneath the surface of the headline index. Sectorally, sharp losses in IT (-5.57%), FMCG (-1.01%), Realty (-1.39%) and Consumer Durables (-0.81%) weighed on sentiment. However, gains in PSU Banks (+1.70%), Private Banks (+0.70%), Healthcare (+0.54%) and Pharma (+0.33%) helped cushion the decline, with financial stocks providing some defensive support.
