U.S. stock index futures barely budged on Thursday, as results from Taiwan's TSMC failed to shake investors from their cautious mood following a rollercoaster session marked by concerns about the Federal Reserve's independence.

Early trading on Wall Street was quietly mixed as markets shift their attention toward a deluge of corporate earnings reports.

U.S. stock index futures moved higher on Wednesday after cooler-than-expected producer prices data for June reinforced expectations that the Federal Reserve could cut interest rates later

A healthy crop of earnings helped European stocks bust out of a four-day losing streak on Thursday, Wall Street was watching Netflix and the dollar bounced after U.S. President Donald Trump quashed talk he was about to fire Fed head Jerome Powell.

Wall Street braced for another inflation checkup after Tuesday's consumer price reading spurred traders to pare bets on Fed rate cuts in the coming months.

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Investors will keep a close watch on producer prices data, searching for signs of rising costs at the factory gate.

With the deadline for tariffs now moved to August 1, investors are pinning their hopes on negotiations to stave off an all-out trade war. "Market volatility is likely to pick up, but the latest development does not constitute an escalation in the trade war," UBS analysts said.

Stock futures were little changed on Tuesday evening, as investors await earnings releases from several big banks and the latest wholesale inflation report. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average pulled back 76 points, or 0.1%, while S&P 500 futures lost 0.2%. Nasdaq 100 futures slipped 0.2%.