Gainers outnumbered losers Wednesday on our Birmingham and Alabama Stock Report as Wall Street enjoyed a rare positive day of late.

Birmingham-based Medical Properties Trust had the biggest gain, rising an impressive 6.3%.

Vulcan Materials was up, too, picking up 2.5%.

Honda and Toyota anchored the bottom of the table, losing 2.6% and 2.4%, respectively.

Overall, Wall Street rose Wednesday after getting some relief from relaxing bond yields and falling oil prices.

The S&P 500 climbed 0.8% to claw back more than half its sharp tumble from a day earlier, which sent it to a four-month low. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 127 points, or 0.4%, a day after erasing the last of its gains for the year so far. The Nasdaq composite led the market with a gain of 1.4%.