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US stock futures slid on Tuesday, eyeing a pullback from their recent rally amid growing warnings that investor relief over a cooling in trade tensions and in US inflation may be misplaced.Dow Jones Industrial Average futures traded flat in the wake of component Home Depot's mixed earnings report.

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Notably, the S&P 500 achieved its fifth consecutive daily gain on Friday, marking its best weekly performance of the year.

Longer-dated Treasury yields rose to the psychological 5% level and S&P 500 Index futures slid with the dollar after a downgrade of the US’s credit score by Moody’s Ratings increased concerns over the nation’s debt.

President Donald Trump said on Friday that the US will set tariff rates for its trading partners within the next few weeks. He explained that the administration cannot negotiate trade deals with all countries at once due to limited capacity.

In a surprising turn of events, President Trump on Thursday said India has offered to drop tariffs on US goods as part of a potential trade deal.

Trump's latest tariff pause has Wall Street reeling back its recession calls. Discussion of an economic downturn later in 2025 had surged as economists argued Trump's widespread tariffs would boost inflation and slow economic growth.

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Despite a brief rally earlier in the week, all major indexes closed with modest losses, except for the Russell 2000, which posted a slight gain.

US stock futures backed off on Tuesday as economic worries replaced US-China trade truce euphoria in the wait for the latest US consumer inflation report to reveal the impact of tariffs.