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Technology Stocks : FSII - The Worst is Over? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Joe Dancy who wrote (1740)	2/4/1998 10:51:00 PM
From: Donald Wennerstrom	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2754

This has been a rip-roaring week for the semi-equips with today being the best of all. I thought I would just put up a preview of the week by looking at the last 3 day increases. FOUR 01/30/98 02/04/98 DAY CLOSE CLOSE PERCENT SYMBOL COMPANY PRICE PRICE CHANGE VECO Veeco Instruments 22.50 29.50 31 PRIA Pri Automation 27.50 35.75 30 SFAM Speed Family 23.81 30.50 28 GGNS Genus 2.69 3.38 26 TGAL Tegal 4.50 5.63 25 GSNX Gasonics 11.63 13.94 20 KLIC Kulicke & Soffa Industries 20.25 24.25 20 ASYT Asyst Technologies 22.88 27.00 18 PLAB Phototronics 23.00 26.88 17 NANO Nanometrics 8.50 9.88 16 CFMT CFM Technologies 14.75 17.13 16 KLAC KLA Instruments 37.50 43.06 15 HELX Helix Technology 19.13 21.88 14 CMOS Credence Systems 25.38 29.00 14 IMSC Integrated Measurement Systems 13.13 15.00 14 NVLS Novellus Systems 36.06 41.19 14 FSII FSI International 11.94 13.56 14 LRCX Lam Research 22.81 25.88 13 UTEK Ultratech Stepper 20.50 23.13 13 SVGI Silicon Valley Group 22.38 25.25 13 ETEC Etec System 41.50 46.75 13 AMAT Applied Materials 32.81 36.88 12 MTSN Mattson Technology 7.19 8.00 11 TER Teradyne 39.50 43.94 11 IPEC Integrated Process Equipment 14.63 16.00 9 ASEC Aseco 9.63 10.50 9 BRKS Brooks Automation 16.25 17.50 8 SUBM Submicron Systems 1.63 1.75 7 PHTN Photon Dynamics 2.75 2.94 7 EGLS Electroglas 14.50 15.50 7 COHU Cohu 43.00 45.63 6 SMTL Semitool 12.75 13.38 5 WJ Watkins Johnson 25.00 26.13 5 MICN Micrion 13.63 14.19 4 WFR MEMC Electronic Materials 16.88 17.19 2 LTXX LTX 5.19 5.00 -4 TRKN Trikon Technologies 1.66 1.44 -13 TOTALS 689 785 14 Looks like the momentum players are back with a vengence. Even FSII is participating in the fun. Are we going to have another good day tomorrow?