Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, U.S., July 15, 2025. <\/p>\n
Jeenah Moon | Reuters<\/p>\n
U.S. stock futures were little changed Sunday night as investors tracked the latest developments on trade, and awaited the start of big tech earnings this week.<\/p>\n
Dow Jones Industrial Average futures fell by 27 points, or 0.05%. S&P 500 futures slid 0.04%, while Nasdaq 100 futures dipped 0.03%.<\/p>\n
Trade was once again in focus as the White House reiterated its position on tariffs. On Sunday, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick called Aug. 1 the “hard deadline”<\/a> for countries to start paying tariffs, though he also added that “nothing stops countries from talking to us after August 1.”<\/p>\n Wall Street is coming off a winning week for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq, both of which continued to notch all-time highs. The S&P 500 ended the week higher by 0.6%, while the Nasdaq climbed 1.5%. The Dow ended the week slightly lower.<\/p>\n The moves come on the heels of a solid start to earnings season. Of the 59 S&P 500 companies that have reported thus far, more than 86% have topped expectations, according to FactSet data.<\/p>\n The major averages could receive a boost in the week ahead if Alphabet<\/a> and Tesla<\/a> \u2014 the first of the so-called Magnificent Seven companies set to report \u2014 manage to beat estimates. The megacaps are expected to be a major driver of earnings growth during the second-quarter earnings season. FactSet’s John Butters expects the Magnificent Seven will post earnings growth of 14% in the second quarter, while the other 493 S&P 500 companies are seen posting growth of just 3.4%.<\/p>\n “We’re at an all time high for the [S&P 500] right at the beginning of earnings season,” said Mark Malek, investment chief at Siebert Financial, adding, “If we can get through this earnings season with not too many major failures, I think that is really, really important at this point, if we want to continue this upward momentum that we have in the market.”<\/p>\n On the economic front, the June reading for leading indicators, which are predictive metrics for the overall market and economy, is scheduled for release on Monday at 10 a.m. ET.<\/p>\n Verizon Communications<\/a> and Domino’s Pizza<\/a> are among the companies set to report earnings Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, U.S., July 15,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":79186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[11733,133,64,81,51315,135,134,141,67,132,68,29055],"class_list":{"0":"post-79185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-alphabet-inc","9":"tag-breaking-news-markets","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-business-news","12":"tag-dominos-pizza-inc","13":"tag-markets","14":"tag-stock-markets","15":"tag-tesla-inc","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-verizon-communications-inc"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114888140622073157","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}