Note: Our daily “S&P 500 Outlook, Forecast, and Trading plan for Thursday, 04/04” will be posted around 8:30am EDT, Thursday. THE GIST (“THE WHAT”) Extending gains for the fifth straight session, the S&P 500 rallied during the early session on reports that the U.S. and China are nearing a trade deal. Gains were however pared in the (more…)