The Dow Jones Industrial Average turned positive for 2018, with a triple-digit, late-morning rally helping the blue-chip gauge join the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq in the black for the year. Most recently, the Dow was up 186 points, or 0.8%, at 24,726, any trade above 24,719.22 represents a year-to-date gain for the Dow, a level it hasn't been above since April 18, according to FactSet data. Thursday's trade was being fueled by a rally in shares of Johnson & Johnson [: JNJ] and International Business Machines Corp The broader market has been buoyed by rising energy prices, which have helped to deliver a fillip to energy-related stocks with U.S. benchmark crude-oil hitting the highest level since November 2014 above $71 in Wednesday's session. The S&P 500 index was up 0.8% at 2,715, having turned positive for the year in the previous session, up 1.6% year-to-date, while the Nasdaq Composite Index was trading 0.7% higher for the session at 7,391, for a year-to=date advance of 7.1%, outperforming the main U.S. equity gauges by a wide margin.