U.S. stocks traded lower this morning, with the Dow Jones index falling more than 300 points on Thursday.

Following the market opening Thursday, the Dow traded down 0.83% to 38,123.16 while the NASDAQ fell 0.20% to 16,887.52. The S&P 500 also fell, dropping, 0.22% to 5,255.22.

Leading and Lagging Sectors

Real estate shares rose by 0.9% on Thursday.

In trading on Thursday, information technology shares dipped by 1%.

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Dollar General Corp(NYSE:DG) reported better-than-expected first-quarter financial results on Thursday.

Dollar General reported first-quarter FY24 sales growth of 6% year-on-year to $9.910 billion, beating the analyst consensus estimate of $9.897 billion. Same-store sales...