Stock market recap, Feb. 12 -- The Indian equity benchmarks concluded Wednesday's session on a mixed note, with Nifty 50 managing a marginal 0.07% gain to settle at 25,953.85, while Sensex snapped its three-day winning streak, slipping 0.05% to close at 84,233.64.

The session was characterized by a sharp divergence in sectoral performance. A robust rally in auto and PSU banking, buoyed by stellar Q3 results from Eicher Motors (+6.45%) and SBI (+3.23%), was largely offset by a broad-based selloff in the IT sector, led by TCS and Infosys.

Market breadth tilted slightly favouring the bears, with an advance-decline ratio of approximately 1:1.1, as 1,485 stocks advanced and 1,683 declined on the NSE.

Technically, the index continues to face...