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I'm Francesca Fontana for the Wall Street Journal, and this is What's News and Markets,

our look at the biggest stock moves of the week and the news that drove them.

Let's get to it.

Overall, we had a relatively sunny week in the stock market.

Tech stocks took a hit on Wednesday due to fears of renewed trade

tensions between the U.S. and China, but overall, investors seemed to be optimistic about

President Trump's upcoming meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Meanwhile, it was a jam-packed

week for corporate earnings. We'll dig into some specific earnings reports in a bit, but to put it in perspective, nearly

one-fifth of the S&P 500 reported results, including big names like Tesla and Netflix.

I can't speak for everyone, but it really feels like this year is flying by.

I don't know where the time is going.

All in all, the Dow rose 2.2% for the week, the S&P 500 gained 1.9%, and the NASDAQ rose 2.3%. Now, don't

think I wasn't going to mention the giant internet breakdown that kicked off this week. No,

I put it at the top of my list. Amazon breaks the

internet. So a quick rundown, in case you were off the grid this past week, on Monday, a widespread

outage linked to Amazon Web services cascaded across the web. More than 4,000 flights were delayed,

financial transactions were affected, Slack was down, Zoom

was down, Fenmo, Instacart, news websites like WSJ.com, the list goes on.

And it put into stark relief just how fragile our global internet connectivity is.

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