Friday’s session closed well into green territory. Wal-Mart, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Home Depot led advancers on the Dow. Stocks rallied, marking the best weekly gains of the year. Crude oil shed 72 cents to settle at $84.10 a barrel. Meanwhile, a Commerce Department report showed that the U.S. trade deficit decreased slightly in April. Hitting $50.06 billion, the result was down from an upwardly revised $52.62 billion in March, and a tad greater than an expected gap of $49.9 billion. In a separate report, the Commerce Department said inventories at wholesalers edged up 0.6% in April. Following a 0.3% rise in March, economists had anticipated a lesser gain of 0.4%.
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