Myriad stocks on our Birmingham and Alabama Stock Report took a beating on Tuesday as the markets tumbled.

Birmingham-based Medical Properties Trust led the decliners, falling 5.4%.

Amazon shed 3.7%.

Southern Company was the top gainer, picking up 2.1%.

Overall, Wall Street fell sharply Tuesday as it focused on the downside of a surprisingly strong job market.

The S&P 500 dropped 1.4% to its lowest point in four months. The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled 430 points, or 1.3% and wiped out the last of its gains made for the year so far. Some of the heaviest losses came from Big Tech stocks, which sent the Nasdaq composite to a market-leading loss of 1.9%.