U.S. stocks traded higher this morning, with the Dow Jones index gaining around 40 points on Thursday.

Following the market opening Thursday, the Dow traded up 0.10% to 41,238.64 while the NASDAQ rose 0.22% to 18,036.66. The S&P 500 also rose, gaining, 0.21% to 5,600.18.

Leading and Lagging Sectors

Industrials shares jumped by 0.6% on Thursday.

In trading on Thursday, health care shares fell by 0.4%.

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D.R. Horton, Inc. (NYSE:DHI) reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings on Thursday.

D.R. reported quarterly earnings of $4.10 per share which beat the analyst consensus estimate of $3.78 per share. The company reported quarterly sales of $9.966 billion which...