Stock Futures Edge Higher as Oil Eases, Setting Up a Week With a Fed Decision and Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon Earnings

After two losing weeks for the S&P 500, Wall Street enters one of the busiest stretches of the year, with the Fed and three of the biggest tech companies all on the calendar.

Where did stock futures open on Sunday night?

U.S. stock futures rose slightly when trading reopened Sunday evening, Oct. 25, 2026. At 7:40 p.m. Eastern, S&P 500 futures were up 0.13%, Dow futures up 0.12% and Nasdaq 100 futures up 0.1%, Investing.com reported. Oil prices pulled back from six-month highs, easing some pressure on stocks.

Stock index futures are contracts that let traders bet on where an index will be at a later date. They trade almost around the clock, so they give an early read on how the regular session might open at 9:30 a.m. Eastern. They are not a guarantee: the mood can change many times overnight.

The early numbers, from Investing.com, put S&P 500 futures at 7,669.0, Nasdaq 100 futures at 29,151.50 and Dow futures at 52,455.0. By 10:20 p.m. Eastern the picture was a little more mixed, with Dow futures up 0.22%, S&P 500 futures up 0.11% and Nasdaq 100 futures roughly flat, down 0.02%, according to a Stocktwits report on TradingView.

How did stocks end last week?

The bounce comes after a rough stretch. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite have now posted two straight weekly losses, driven mostly by selling in technology and AI stocks, Investing.com reported. On Friday, Oct. 23, the Dow fell 1.23% to 52,215.16, losing more than 650 points, and the S&P 500 slipped 0.52% to 7,623.68. We covered that session in our story on stocks falling as oil surged on Friday.