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Technology Stocks : Applied Materials No-Politics Thread (AMAT) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (4855)	1/9/2003 10:02:16 PM
From: Sarmad Y. Hermiz	Respond to of 25522

I'm sure nothing can overcome the perception that this is the worst Christmas in decades. But anyway, another item showing rising demand for electronics. 8:23PM Sony says PS2 sales sharply up in Nov. and Dec. (SNE) by Mariko Ando Sony said it has sold over 4 million units of its PlayStation2 game consoles during the key holiday shopping season in November and December to users in North America. The figure represents a 42 percent gain over the same period last year, according to figures released by Sony's [s:sne] game business unit Sony Computer Entertainment. In Europe, the company sold more than 3.4 million units of PS2, a gain of 27 percent. But sales in Japan declined 27 percent to 940,000 units. Overall worldwide sales totaled 8.5 million units, a rise of 24 percent from the year-ago period.