U.S. stocks traded higher in the final minutes of Thursday's session. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 124.99, or 0.4 percent, to 28,859.44. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 10.26, or 0.3 percent, to 3,283.66. The technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index rose 23.77, or 0.3 percent, to 9,298.93.