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Urgent: U.S. stocks post sizable gains on Fed minutes

Xinhua, October 9, 2015 Adjust font size:

U.S. stocks reversed early losses to end higher Thursday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average on a five-session winning streak for the first time in 2015, as Wall Street assessed the minutes of the Federal Reserve's September meeting.

The Dow added over 0.8 percent, and the S&P 500 gained 0.9 percent, while the Nasdaq was up 0.4 percent. Endit