Wall Street forges ahead despite uncertainty, Dow Jones gains 193 points

NEW YORK, New York - U.S. stocks gained ground on Thursday despite continuing challenges across a broad range of fronts.

"There's just a lot of uncertainty, and I think people aren't going to really make up their minds for longer than five minutes or five seconds, you know, until there's a little bit more clarity or light at the end of the tunnel," Grace Lee, an equity income senior portfolio manager at Boston-ba