To: SusieQ1065 who wrote (72717 ) 9/12/2002 7:39:06 AM From: 2MAR$ Respond to of 208838 Wall St seen down ahead of Greenspan, -->Adobe <---results LONDON, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Wall Street is forecast to open lower on Thursday as investors wait to hear from Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan on the state of the economy and ahead of earnings results from publishing software maker Adobe <ADBE.O>. Adobe shares were untraded in Europe ahead of its third-quarter results. Executive recruitment firm Korn/Ferry International <KFY.N> and business software provider Verity <VRTY.O> are also expected to release earnings results on Thursday. Concerns that the world's largest economy is struggling to recover were stoked on Wednesday, when the Federal Reserve's Beige Book showed growth had slowed in recent weeks. "I don't think Greenspan is going to be all doom and gloom," said Peter Dixon, an economist at Commerzbank. "Greenspan has talked of moderate signs of a pickup but it's very unlikely that the economy will grow very quickly." The possibility of war will also be at the forefront of investors' minds as U.S. President George W. Bush addresses the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday to make his case for an American-led strike against Iraq. Stock index futures were weaker across the board by 1025 GMT. The Dow Jones industrial average <.DJI> contract and the broader S&P 500 <.SPX> contract were both down 0.4 percent. "The threat of war is still a concern affecting markets and I think you'll find big fund managers are going to delay some of their decisions until we see whether the United Nations is going to back Bush," one trader said. Technology stocks in particular looked set to come under pressure, ahead of an expected 0.7 percent opening dip for the Nasdaq <.IXIC> index, according to stock index futures. Financial bookmakers City Index were calling networking equipment firm Cisco <CSCO.O>, computing giant IBM <IBM.N>, chip maker Intel <INTC.O> and software giant Microsoft <MSFT.O> all down a few cents. ((Friedel Rother, London Newsroom +44 20 7542 8712 fax +44 20 7583 3769, uk.stocks.news@reuters.com)) Reuters Terminal subscribers -- for updates on news on Nasdaq's new trading platform SuperMontage changes please double click on <NASDAQ/INFO1>. For more detailed information about the Nasdaq changes, please see the Nasdaq White Paper at www.reuters.com/nasdaqchanges