🔔📈 Closing Bell: Sensex gains 384 pts, Nifty above 23,950; Media index up 5%, IT down 2%

The BSE Sensex rose 384 points at the close while the Nifty 50 finished above the 23,950 level, according to the closing-bell report. Sectoral performance was sharply divergent, with the Nifty Media index advancing about 5% and the Nifty IT index slipping roughly 2%. The broad index gain reflects improved domestic risk appetite, with the rotation into media stocks and out of IT pointing to a shift in sector flows rather than a uniform market-wide repricing. IT's underperformance is typically sensitive to US dollar moves and global technology demand, so traders will watch dollar-rupee direction and US tech sentiment for signs of whether the sector weakness persists. The next key catalyst is the upcoming US inflation data, since any change in Federal Reserve rate expectations would shift the dollar and foreign portfolio flows into Indian equities.

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