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What the stock market’s most crucial week of the year tells us about the road ahead

June 18, 2018

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Stock-market investors navigated, virtually unscathed, a gauntlet of central-bank gatherings, a historic summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean Kim Jong Un, and flaring trade tensions.

The S&P 500 index SPX, -0.10% ended the week essentially flat, managing the narrowest of weekly gains, up 0.02% to 2,779.66, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.34% posted a weekly decline of 0.9%. The Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, -0.19% outperformed both, rising 1.3% for the five-day period.

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