…Stocks waver on trade concerns. What makes the list. Home-builders slip. Still, the economy is fairly strong. Ford buys a train station. Financial Review by Sinclair Noe for 06-18-2018 DOW – 103 = 24,987 SPX – 5 = 2773 NAS + 0.64 = 7747 RUT + 8 = 1692 10 Y un = 2.93% OIL + .72 = 65.78 GOLD – 1.00 = 1278.90   Stocks closed lower but not at session lows. The Dow had been down 265 points in early trade and even though it recovered more than half, it could not avoid a fifth consecutive losing session. The S&P 500 index clawed out of a 22-point loss. The Nasdaq went from negative to positive. The Dow is up 0.8% for the year, while the S&P has gained 3.6%; both remain a few percentage points below record levels. The Nasdaq is up 12% for the year and is just below an all-time closing high hit Thursday. Today, gains in energy shares helped curb declines stemming from concerns about a trade war with China. Trump said last week he was pushing ahead with tariffs on $50 billion of Chinese imports. China announced similar tariffs almost immediately and accused the United States of launching a trade war.   Boeing, which has acted as a proxy for trade war tensions with China as it is the single largest U.S. exporter to the country, fell 0.8 percent as the biggest drag on the Dow. Construction equipment maker Caterpillar declined 0.7 percent. Chipmakers, ...