(These are the market notes on today's action by Mike Santoli, CNBC's Senior Markets Commentator. See today's video update from Mike above.) More apprehensive chopping around the week-long range with a slightly firmer tone to end the week, as the urgent selling in regional lenders abated, a China-trade agreement remains in limbo and investors ask whether a 2% dip from a record high has been enough to skim away some market froth and set the rally on firmer footing. No answers on the final front. The S & P 500 has spent all week between the high and low from last Friday, when a 2.7% drop shattered an unusually long period without even a 1% daily decline. The index has now taken on the look of a sideways range stretching back five weeks or so and has crisscrossed the 6667 line daily this week

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