US stocks post sizable gains on Fed minutes

US stocks reversed early losses to end higher on 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.