…Nasdaq record high. Trade wars on the horizon. G-6-plus-1 later in the week. M&A around the world. Microsoft gets Github. Buybacks, M&A, & dividends push markets. Apple WWDC. Facebook, again. Financial Review by Sinclair Noe for 06-04-2018 DOW + 178 = 24,813 SPX + 12 = 2746 NAS + 52 = 7606 RUT + 5 = 1653 10 Y + .04 = 2.94% OIL – 1.19 = 64.62 GOLD – 1.60 = 1292.50   Tech stocks led today’s rally and helped push the Nasdaq to a record high close. The Nasdaq Biotechnology Index underperformed the broader market with a 0.7 percent decline Nektar Therapeutics dropped 41% and weighed on the index after mixed results from its experimental cancer drug with Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Opdivo disappointed investors. Bristol-Myers Squibb ended 3.2 percent lower. Merck, however, gained about 2.4 percent after latest data showed its cancer drug Keytruda improved survival as a stand-alone treatment for a type of lung cancer. Falling oil prices weighed on the energy sector.   Weekend trade talks between the U.S. and China ended with little sign of progress, setting the two economic superpowers closer to unleashing $100 billion in tariffs on one another. There was no evident progress on a Chinese commitment to buy more American agricultural and energy products, the purported goal of the meeting. In the wake of the Trump team’s renewed threat last week to slap $50 billion in levies on Chinese imports — tariffs that the administration said it will list June 15 — ...