U.S. stocks traded mostly higher midway through trading, with the Dow Jones index gaining around 0.1% on Wednesday.

The Dow traded up 0.09% to 53,838.24 while the NASDAQ rose 0.47% to 26,569.48. The S&P 500 also rose, gaining, 0.24% to 7,746.41.

Leading and Lagging Sectors

Information technology shares jumped by 1.1% on Wednesday.

In trading on Wednesday, communication services stocks fell by 1.3%.