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To: Donald Wennerstrom who wrote (30707)	5/28/2006 6:52:41 PM
From: Donald Wennerstrom	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95390

Here is the weekly update for the Group. The Group, SOX and NASDAQ changed by -4, -5, and 1 percent respectively. - 5/19/06 5/26/06 FST CALL NEXT FST CALL - CLOSE CLOSE PERCENT NXT YR YEAR LNG TRM SYMBOL PRICE PRICE CHANGE EARN PE GROWTH PEG COHU 16.55 17.55 6 1.31 13 15 0.89 LTXX 7.24 7.65 6 0.66 12 15 0.77 ASML 19.17 20.05 5 1.33 15 15 1.01 KLIC 8.42 8.58 2 1.15 7 10 0.75 SMTL 9.30 9.47 2 0.71 13 15 0.89 UTEK 17.60 17.92 2 0.87 21 20 1.03 VECO 24.26 24.39 1 1.37 18 15 1.19 BRKS 12.50 12.54 0 0.80 16 15 1.05 AMAT* 17.01 16.91 -1 1.20 14 15 0.94 ATMI 26.61 26.38 -1 1.34 20 18 1.12 PLAB 17.98 17.55 -2 1.29 14 15 0.91 FSII 4.93 4.81 -2 0.27 18 15 1.19 CYMI 47.96 46.36 -3 2.77 17 20 0.84 NVLS* 23.71 22.81 -4 1.30 18 15 1.17 PHTN 17.03 16.33 -4 1.00 16 20 0.82 TER* 15.27 14.64 -4 0.93 16 18 0.87 MTSN 9.43 8.96 -5 0.77 12 20 0.58 LRCX 47.61 45.14 -5 3.17 14 18 0.81 ASYT 6.89 6.51 -6 0.48 14 11 1.23 EGLS 3.83 3.52 -8 -0.12 22 KLAC* 45.24 40.62 -10 2.56 16 17 0.94 WFR 39.06 34.40 -12 2.10 16 18 0.91 CMOS 6.57 4.57 -30 0.56 8 13 0.65 TOTALS 444.17 427.66 -4 27.82 15 SOX-X 489.67 466.77 -5 COMPQX2193.88 2210.37 1 * STOCKS INCLUDED IN SOX INDEX

To: Donald Wennerstrom who wrote (30707)	5/28/2006 7:36:18 PM
From: TREND1	Respond to of 95390

"what does the 6 in "6_Major" mean?" Just 6th computer program. Nothing important.

To: Donald Wennerstrom who wrote (30707)	5/29/2006 2:36:46 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 95390

OT The Big Glut: Trouble in Paradise Barron's ^ \| 5/29/2006 \| Robin Goldwyn Blumenthal online.barrons.com IT WOULD SEEM TO HAVE IT ALL: four bedrooms, a guest house, a pool and a rock waterfall. But the vacation home in Naples, Fla., hasn't been drawing much interest from buyers, so the seller recently threw in that most modern of amenities: the $1 million price cut. That's brought the asking price down a full 25%. "If you want to sell, you've got to go back to '04 prices," says Chip Harris of Coldwell Banker Previews International, which is handling the property. * * * After a long string of double-digit annual price increases, a number of second-home meccas across the country are suddenly suffering from plunging sales volume and burgeoning inventories of unsold homes. Result: Naples-style discounting is starting to spread. It hit the town of Pocasset, on Massachusetts' Cape Cod, just as retired executive Jack Reen was trying to sell his four-acre, six-bedroom beachfront home. He cut the price several times, for a total of 42% off the listing price, before striking a deal at $3.95 million. Reen takes a philosophical view of the experience, noting that the original price was set at the top of the market. "Calling the tops and bottoms is impossible," he says. (Excerpt) Read more at online.barrons.com ...