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

To: matt dillabough who wrote (16892)	12/19/2005 9:09:35 AM
From: Gottfried	Respond to of 25522

re "Stifel downgrades.." They should have stifled themselves :) PS: apologies to Archie Bunker

To: matt dillabough who wrote (16892)	12/19/2005 11:07:31 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 25522

Japan's chip gear b-to-b climbs, says report Peter Clarke EE Times (12/19/2005 10:36 AM EST) LONDON — Japan-based semiconductor production equipment manufacturers posted a book-to-bill ratio of 1.05 for November, up from 1.01 for October and 0.90 in September, according a Reuters report that cited the Semiconductor Equipment Association of Japan (SEAJ) as its source. The three-month average of worldwide bookings in November was 133.34 billion yen (about $1.15 billion), the report said, up from 122.2 billion yen (about $1.08 billion) in October. The book-to-bill ration stood at 1.09 in June and 1.08 in July before declining below 1 in the second half of 2005 and then rising again.