Escalating chaos again proves incapable of derailing the S&P 500 index as bargain hunters keep buying on the dip

• Even with Friday’s decline on the president’s diagnosis, stocks managed enough buoyancy over the first four days to come out comfortably ahead, defying a panoply of threats
• If anything is a microcosm for the 2020 stock market, the last few days are it – dip buyers clawing their way through considerable political and societal gloom and finding things to embrace