There were more tricks than treats on Halloween for our Birmingham and Alabama Stock Report with only four stocks losing ground Tuesday.

Several Birmingham-area stocks were among the top gainers: Encompass Health (+3.2%), First US Bancshares (+2.4%), Regions (+2.2%) and Warrior Met Coal (+2.1%).

A trio of Birmingham-area stocks found themselves at the bottom of the table, too, however: Medical Properties Trust (-.8%), Nucor (-.8%) and ProAssurance (-.2%).

Overall, Wall Street rose Tuesday to take a bit of the edge off another losing month.

The S&P 500 gained 26.98, or 0.6%, to 4,193.80, a day after clawing back a bigger chunk of its loss for October. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 123.91, or 0.4%, to 33,052.87, and the Nasdaq composite climbed 61.75, or 0.5%, to 12,851.24.

Most stocks ended up climbing after indexes swayed between small gains and losses through the morning, and more than 80% of the stocks in the S&P 500 strengthened.