The Trump administration's tough talk on tariffs softened last week, and government reports on Friday showed job growth was booming in February while real-wages roared, capping a good week for the Standard & Poor's 500 with 1.7% surge on Friday that left stocks just 4% from their all-time high.

313,000 new jobs were added to the economy last month, when only about 200,000 were expected. In addition, the official unemployment rate stayed at 4.1%. That's the same it has been since October 2017, and the lowest it's been since December 2001, which capped the end of the longest expansion in post-War U.S. history, the boom of the 1990s.

Meanwhile, purchasing managers at large non-manufacturing companies - 86% of U.S. gross domestic product - continued to say they're experiencing near-record high levels of activity. The 59.5% reading in February for months has hovered at highs rarely reached.