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To: Gottfried who wrote (50452)	8/13/2001 1:57:33 AM
From: advocatedevil	Respond to of 70976

"Tokyo stocks off sharply,Rohm and Advantest weigh" snips: Advantest Corp, the country's top maker of semiconductor testing devices, slumped 5.79 percent to 7,970 yen, helping send the tech-sensitive Nikkei average down 1.80 percent or 210.83 points to 11,524.23 by 0447 GMT. Late on Friday, Advantest slashed its group net profit forecast for the year to next March to 4.0 billion yen ($32.80 million), a stunning 84 percent fall from an estimate made in April. Specialty chip maker Rohm followed suit, cutting its group net profit estimate for the current business year by 56.6 percent to 36 billion yen. Its shares were ask-only at 15,500 yen, 11.4 percent below Friday's close. Several brokerages downgraded Rohm and Advantest following their profit revisions and also cut ratings on their peers including Kyocera Corp and Murata Mfg Co Ltd . Kyocera, the world's biggest maker of IC ceramic packages, was down by its daily limit of 1,000 yen or 10.72 percent at 8,330. Murata, a maker of communications equipment parts, shed 8.38 percent to 7,110 yen. Complete article at: biz.yahoo.com AdvocateDevil

To: Gottfried who wrote (50452)	8/13/2001 2:19:42 AM
From: advocatedevil	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70976

Gottfried, Have you stopped by Fry's recently? I shop at the Sunnyvale store and typically go there almost every Saturday (yeah, I'm a bit of a geek and have four PCs networked at home that I'm always buying something for). The last two visits have been eye opening. I was able to pick from a host of parking spaces near the front entrance and walked right up to one of the cashiers without waiting in line. I can't recall seeing Fry's this slow EVER. Hey, it's just one electronics store out of thousands like it out there, but it sure caught my attention. AdvocateDevil