Dow Jones edges up 81 points amidst broader sell-off

NEW YORK, New York - U.S. stocks continued higher on Thursday after the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis advised Gross domestic Product (GDP) increased at a 2.8 percent annualized rate in the June quarter, well above the 2.0 percent the markets expected.

"The economy is in a transition, but it's in a good place," Ryan Sweet, chief U.S. economist at Oxford Economics told The New York Times Thursda