On an otherwise flat day in the markets and on our Birmingham and Alabama Stock Report, one local stock plummeted to a 52-week low.

Medical Properties Trust, the Birmingham-based real estate investment trust that focuses on health care facilities, dropped 7.6% to close at $6.93 a share.

Birmingham-based First US Bancshares was the top gainer, picking up 1.3%. U.S. Steel ended its eventful week up .9%.

Overall, Wall Street limped to the finish line of its third losing week in a row on Friday.

The S&P 500 barely budged as it ended the week with a loss of more than 2%, like other U.S. indexes. It edged down by 0.65, or less than 0.1%, to 4,369.71.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 25.83 points, or 0.1%, to 34,500.66, and the Nasdaq composite slipped 26.16, or 0.2%, to 13,290.78.