1.   Continued weakness in the overall market scoreboard last Thursday started to influence index component stocks to follow its lead.

2.   MOST of the popular market barometers staged mild rebound last Monday but the overall market scoreboard was still showing a negative breadth.

3.   Not so encouraging was the overall market scoreboard, which still had a negative market breadth.

4.   The market had started on a steadier trend, an hour later the overall market scoreboard and the KLSE Cl were giving entirely different signals.

5.   The popular market barometers started to show small gains and the overall market scoreboard reflected a broad front advance.

6.   The weak improvement is due mainly to the negative market breadth shown by the overall scoreboard.