Wall Street is anticipating a 1)wea

Wall Street is anticipating a 1)weak stock market at least for the next week or two, as investors 2)grapple with 3)negative corporate news. The market is in a so-called "4)confession" period, when companies let Wall Street know if they think they will miss their 5)profit targets for the quarter. The Dow Jones Industrial Average will start the week at 10,623, having dropped 3 percent last week. The tech-weighted NASDAQ composite will start more than 8 percent lower. The list of U.S. companies announcing lower second-quarter earnings keeps getting longer. Some 6)heavyweights are included among the corporate victims of a slower U.S. economy, and it goes beyond U.S. borders. On Friday, Nortel Networks of Canada, the world's leading supplier of 7)telecommunications equipment, said it would take a big loss and plans to cut more jobs. Meanwhile, U.S. manufacturing 8)slumped in May for an eighth consecutive month. And businesses are cutting prices in the face of slower demand. Analysts say all this weight is proving too heavy for the average investor to bear