DALTON TANONAKA, CNN ANCHOR, BIZASIA: Those after-the-bell earnings from HP and Dell Computer will likely be the Friday focus on Wall Street. For the pre-open sentiment we go to Sasha Salama. She's at the Nasdaq marketsite in New York. Sasha, what do you think?</s>SASHA SALAMA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Dalton, the futures are doing the talking here, they are pointing to a lower open after the overall Nasdaq did managed to eke out a gain on Thursday, finishing at 1930; volume picking up to its heaviest point so far this week, but still, anemic. After all, it's August. We are watching Dell Computers, this will be a key focus today. After hours, Dell down a bit after finishing virtually unchanged on Thursday. Dell, the biggest maker of PCs in the world, coming in right in line with estimates, but it said that it wouldn't meet estimates for third quarter, both revenues and earnings. it says that it is really facing a very tough price-competition war out there, and that is going to take down the stock, and we're seeing that already in the premarket -- Dalton.</s>TANONAKA: 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
Nasdaq Ekes Out Gain; Dell Says it Won't Meet Estimates for 3Q