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Enhanced Global SEMIndex Launched at www.SEMIndex.org
SAN JOSE, Calif., August 27, 2001--An enhanced SEMIndex® , a powerful web-based index research tool to help analysts and investors track the chip equipment and materials industry, was unveiled today.
The announcement was made by SEMIndex sponsor Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI), a global trade association of more than 2,400 companies that provide the technology and materials for building chips to power computers, cell phones and thousands of other industrial and consumer electronics.
The Global SEMIndex and all sub-indices have been restated historically in the new site. These restated index values may be obtained on the website by downloading available Excel-formatted data.
"Now, investors worldwide can receive Index values every three to four minutes for 20 of the 24 hours in the global trading day," explained SEMI senior vice president and Index spokesman David Ringler.
"We'll provide data on eight different sector indices, including a global index, regional indexes for Europe, Japan and the U.S. and for several varying market capitalization categories," Ringler said. He also noted that much of the information is now downloadable as Excel-formatted data.
The SEMIndex, produced for SEMI by InvestorCom, Inc. in New York, is comprised of 65 of SEMI's global public semiconductor equipment, materials and related services companies.
The only global sector index of its kind, the SEMIndex was created to educate investors about the sector and the difference in the performance of semiconductor and materials sector equities from semiconductor stocks as represented by the Philadelphia SOX index.
The SEMIndex includes industry sector companies with market capitalizations of U.S. $50 million or more. The market-weighted index includes companies from the U.S., Japan and Europe. In addition to a primary market-weighted index, there are sub-indexes based on geographical regions and market capitalizations.
The SEMIndex web page also provides links to index company websites, five-year historical sector performance information and current industry market statistics.
The SEMIndex, adjusted daily for input from Asian and European markets, was set at a value of 100 on January 4, 1999. The high this year was 260.
New SEMIndex features:
* All three regional indices (U.S., Japan and Europe) are now tracked on an intraday, 3-4 minute delay, live basis; investors in Tokyo during their trading day can watch their region's SEMIndex trading activity on an essentially moment-to-moment basis; same for Europe and U.S.
* The composite global SEMIndex will display the entire index results on a 24 hour world time basis; viewers can see the relative movement of the composite index on a region by region basis.
* Viewers can easily download index data for a particular display (e.g., Japan index, 5 yrs.) in an Excel tabular format; that data can then be merged with other Excel-formatted data for comparative purposes.
* Regional SEMindices will now include comparative regional major indices (e.g., Tokyo Nikkei, German Dax) in addition to the Nasdaq and SOX in the U.S.
Based in San Jose, Calif., SEMI is an international industry association serving more than 2,400 companies participating in the semiconductor and flat panel display equipment and materials markets. SEMI maintains offices in Austin, Beijing, Boston, Brussels, Hsinchu, Moscow, Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo and Washington, D.C. For more information, visit SEMI on the Internet at www.semi.org.
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