Investors remained nonchalant about rising prospects of a global trade war following a weekend summit meeting of Group of Seven leaders that ended on an astoundingly bitter note. It could be that traders simply have bigger concerns, some of which might come into play as a week jam-packed with potential market moving events gets under way.

On Wall Street, the S&P 500 eked out a 0.1% gain, while the Dow industrials managed to hang on to a gain of 5.78 points.