Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq rise, gold rally roars on with Fed minutes on deck
US stocks marched higher on Wednesday as Wall Street waited for the latest Federal Reserve minutes to provide hints to future policy amid a shutdown-driven dearth of data. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) turned roughly 0.2% higher on the heels of a losing day for the major gauges. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) climbed 0.4%,…