Mumbai, Nov. 8 -- The equity benchmarks surrendered their early gains and ended marginally lower during the special Muhurat trading session on Sunday, snapping a seven-session winning streak. The Nifty briefly climbed to an intraday high of 25,131.85 before retreating below the 25,000 mark. Mild profit booking weighed on sentiment. Pharma and healthcare stocks attracted buying interest, while realty and banking shares declined.

The S&P BSE Sensex shed 28.62 points or 0.04% to 80,999.40. The Nifty 50 declined 43.95 points or 0.18% to 24,986.40.

During the seven-session rally through Friday, the Sensex and Nifty had gained 10.62% and 10.27%, respectively.

The broader market outperformed the frontline indices. The BSE 150 MidCap Index gai...