Why Gap, Bed Bath & Beyond, and Other Retail Stocks Closed Higher on Friday

Shares of several apparel and home-goods retailers were moving up on Friday, as stores continued to reopen in parts of the United States and restrictions on retail activity eased.

Here's where these four companies' stocks ended when the market closed on Friday.

There wasn't any specific news report that drove these stocks higher on Friday. Rather, they seem to have risen along with investors' optimism that the U.S. economy might return to something like normal before long.

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