Wall St set to open higher as investors await data

Wall Street was set to open slightly higher on the first trading day of the month on Monday as investors await manufacturing data to further assess the health of the world's largest economy. Investors have been keeping a sharp eye on data after the U.S. Federal Reserve held monetary policy steady last week, and gave no signals that it was in a hurry to tighten further. Wall Street closed lower on Friday, with U.S. stocks marking their largest weekly drop in more than two months as corporate earn