DALTON TANONAKA, CNN ANCHOR, BIZASIA: Investors in the United States will begin their trading week on firm footing. For sentiment ahead of the market opening on Wall Street we go to Sasha Salama. She's at the Nasdaq marketsite, as she always is, in New York. Sasha, any signs of picking up where the market left off Friday?</s>SASHA SALAMA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Dalton, the bulls will be happy to know that the futures at this point are looking toward a positive open, slightly positive here at the Nasdaq, after a huge rally Friday, a 4 percent gain, that brought the market back above 1900 to 1916. Year-to-date, though, we're still looking at quite a decline of 22 percent Friday's rally was the biggest in about six weeks. The hope is that the sagging U.S. economy and corporate profits will start to turn around. We've got a whole plate of the economic news coming up this week: consumer confidence on Tuesday; GDP for the second quarter Wednesday; and the Chicago Purchasing Managers on Friday, which is always seen as a precursor to the national purchasing managers' report. In terms of stocks to watch, we're going to be watching Intel today. The world's biggest chipmaker coming out with a new speedy Pentium 4 chip today. It's expected also to make price cuts. And Intel is hosting a very closely watched high-tech developers forum in San Jose, California. We'll be watching for developments out of that meeting -- Dalton.</s>TANONAKA: All right, Sasha, thank 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
U.S. Investors Hoping Sagging Economy will Turn Around