DALTON TANONAKA, CNN ANCHOR, BIZASIA: Now to Wall Street, where prices got off to a shaky start in a busy week; consumer confidence numbers are due out with GDP numbers coming Wednesday. For the Tuesday's session pre-open sentiment we go to CNN's Sasha Salama at the Nasdaq marketsite in New York. Sasha, good morning.</s>SASHA SALAMA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Thank you, Dalton. We're going to be watching volume very closely today after an extremely light day on Monday. Not surprising, it is the last week in August. The Nasdaq lost just 4 points, finishing at 1912 on anemic volume of just under 1,2 billion shares. One stock we're watching, the third-biggest maker of mobile phones, that's Ericsson, ERICY, the ticker symbol. The stock is actually up in the premarket after losing ground on Monday. The story here is that Ericsson has agreed to merge its mobile phone business into a joint venture with Sony. Both companies are trying to get those loss-making business back into the black. And the new operations will start October 1. We're also watching Herman Miller Furniture. This is a maker of office furniture. After the close on Monday the company cut its revenue and earnings targets for the first quarter. Dalton, back to you. END TO ORDER VIDEOTAPES AND TRANSCRIPTS OF CNN INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMMING, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE THE SECURE ONLINE ORDER FROM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
Last Week of August Spells Anemic Volume for Nasdaq