us stock futures rose sunday evening after all three major averages notched their best week since june at fridays close futures tied to the dow jones industrial average gained 116 points or 037 sp 500 futures and nasdaq 100 futures increased 058 and 081 respectively the moves come after yet another volatile week for stocks as thirdquarter earnings season heats up on friday the dow gained more than 748 points or 247 the sp 500 and the nasdaq composite rose 237 and 231 respectively that added to gains from earlier in the week the sp 500 and dow gained 47 and 49 respectively while the nasdaq rose 52 so far earnings reports have had mixed results for stocks on friday bank stocks goldman sachs and jpmorgan chase gained more than 4 after reporting results but not all results have been solid snap shed 28 after reporting an earnings miss the equities market is trying to form a bottom to get to the last leg of the bear market said david donabedian chief investment officer of cibc private wealth us in a friday note it feels like a twoway market right now we have a tug of war going on between the skeptics and those who think it is time to own equities there are more big earnings reports on deck in the coming week including tech giants such as apple alphabet amazon and microsoft wall street will also be watching for more inflation data on monday the october manufacturing and services purchasing managers indexes will be released