Stock futures were rising Monday after President Donald Trump said he reached a trade agreement with the European Union. The deal, reached Sunday, came ahead of the busiest week for corporate earnings reports, an interest-rate decision from the Federal Reserve, the U.S. jobs report for July, and Trump's Aug. 1 tariffs deadline.
These stocks were poised to make moves Monday:
Tesla rose 1.5% in premarket trading after Trump said he struck a deal to set 15% tariffs on goods from the European Union, including automobiles. Tesla operates Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg in Germany. The factory makes Model Y vehicles and battery cells.
Separately, CEO Elon Musk said the electric-vehicle company signed a $16.5 billion deal with Samsung Electronics to produce new-generation chips. "Samsung's giant new Texas fab will be dedicated to making Tesla's next-generation AI6 chip. The strategic importance of this is hard to overstate," Musk said in a post on X. "Samsung currently makes AI4. TSMC will make AI5, which just finished design, initially in Taiwan and then Arizona."
Lockheed Martin rose 1.4% and RTX gained 1% after Trump said the EU agreed to buy large quantities of military equipment under the trade agreement.
Boeing was up 0.8% in the premarket session. Workers in St. Louis rejected a contract offer, raising the potential for another damaging labor strike at the plane maker in just a few days. A press release from the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers said more than 3,200 IAM District 837 members at Boeing facilities in St. Louis, St. Charles, Mo., and Mascoutah, Ill., "have overwhelmingly voted to reject the company's contract offer during a vote held on Sunday, July 27," triggering a seven-day cooling-off period before a strike would begin.
Cheniere , a provider of liquefied natural gas, jumped 6.8% after the EU agreed to buy $750 billion of U.S. energy products, including LNG, oil, and nuclear fuel, under the trade deal.
Charter Communications was up 0.5% in the premarket session after the company, which operates the Spectrum pay TV and internet services, declined more than 18% on Friday -- the stock's largest daily percentage drop on record -- after missing quarterly profit expectations as it lost about 417,000 subscribers across its internet, video, and wireline voice services.
Earnings reports are expected Monday from Cadence Design Systems, Welltower, Waste Management, and Nucor.
Reports are expected later in the week from Microsoft, Apple, Amazon.com, Meta Platforms, UnitedHealth, CVS Health, Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Qualcomm, Visa, Procter & Gamble, Merck, Boeing, United Parcel Service, AbbVie, Arm Holdings, Coinbase Global, Robinhood Markets, Bristol Myers Squibb, Booking Holdings, Spotify, Starbucks, Royal Caribbean, PayPal, Electronic Arts, Lam Research, Carvana, Comcast, MicroStrategy, Moderna, and Colgate-Palmolive.