Market Wrap-Up

Stocks saw a bit of a lift Thursday as financials recovered,

Wal-Mart Stores

The Dow Jones Industrial Average regained a portion of two days' worth of consecutive losses, closing up 83 points, or 0.73%. Gold prices fell $17 an ounce to close at $814.50, while oil had a 99-cent-a-barrel drop to close at $115.01.

Winners

Big doings in Bentonville, Ark., Wal-Mart's headquarters, boosted the

SPDR S&P Retail ETF

Retail HOLDRS Trust

Apple

Qualcomm

PowerShares QQQ Trust

Losers

Renewed confidence in stocks and the dollar hitting a five-and-a-half-month high against the euro prompted a gold selloff, which deflated

SPDR Gold Shares

iShares Silver Trust

Friday's Notebook

Earnings

Abercrombie & Fitch, J.C. Penney, New York & Co., WSP Holdings

August N.Y. Fed Manufacturing Index (8:30 a.m.)

June Treasury International Capital Flows (9:00 a.m.)

July Industrial Production (9:15 a.m.)

July Capacity Utilization (9:15 a.m.)

Mid-August Reuters/University of Michigan Sentiment Index (9:55 a.m.)

Economic Data

Quick Take

A look at how some of the industry's most popular ETFs did Thursday.