Retailers tend to pay high taxes, and the SPDR S&P Retail ETF (NYSEMKT: XRT) rose 1.5%. As for individual stocks, shares of Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ: COST) rose after the retailer reported a solid quarter, and Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) stumbled following surprisingly weak guidance. Comps in the U.S. grew 8.7% excluding gas inflation and currency, with 1.5 percentage points of that growth resulting from Thanksgiving weekend falling in the first quarter this year.