India, May 29 -- After failing to sustain a strong move to the upside early in the session, stocks fluctuated over the course of the trading day on Thursday.
The major averages bounced back and forth across the unchanged line before eventually closing moderately higher.
The Dow rose 117.03 points or 0.3 percent to 42,215.73, the Nasdaq climbed 74.93 points or 0.4 percent to 19,175.87 and the S&P 500 increased 23.62 points or 0.4 percent to 5,912.17.
Early buying interest was generated in reaction to news that a federal court blocked President Donald Trump's "reciprocal tariffs" on imports from U.S. trade partners from going into effect.
The Court Of International Trade ruled Trump overstepped his authority to impose the tariffs by invok...