Stock futures are slightly higher Friday morning at the end of a busy week of earnings reports and trade-related news.

Alphabet shares rallied 3.5%, but Honeywell stock declined more than 2%. IBM shares sold off more than 5% in morning trading. L3Harris stock jumped more than 3%, as O'Reilly shares lost 1%. And ServiceNow surged more than 7% in early morning action.

The successor to the first stock market index is getting up there with the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite in all-time-high territory.

Major stock indexes were mixed in late trading Thursday as investors reacted to a flurry of earnings reports from major companies, notably tech giants Tesla and Alphabet, and awaited new developments related to tariffs.

Stock indexes built on early winnings in afternoon action and finished on a high note Wednesday amid news of a U.S.-Japan trade deal and progress in talks with the European Union. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence chip behemoth NvidiaNVDA rose on the stock market today ahead of two earnings reports from Magnificent Seven companies.

US stock futures rose slightly on Friday (July 18) after the S&P 500 closed at a record high in the previous session, with major indexes on pace to end the week in positive territory. Futures tied to the S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 each ticked up 0.