US stock futures traded slightly higher on Monday, with contracts on the Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq each up nearly 0.2%, as investors monitored trade developments and prepared for a busy week of corporate earnings. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick reaffirmed that August 1st remains a “hard deadline” for implementing new tariffs, though he signaled that negotiations with trade partners are still ongoing. On the earnings front, Verizon surged nearly 5% in premarket trading after reporting results that beat expectations on both earnings and revenue, while also raising its full-year profit outlook. Market focus is also turning to a wave of key earnings reports due this week from megacap names including Alphabet and Tesla, as well as IBM, T-Mobile, and Coca-Cola. Meanwhile, Microsoft shares slipped 0.2% in premarket action after the company issued a warning about "active attacks" targeting a server software used by government agencies and businesses for internal document sharing.