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To: Gottfried who wrote (25544)10/21/1998 5:06:00 PM
From: Math Junkie  Respond to of 70976
 
<<It was amazing how AMAT's price totally ignored the btb this morning.>>

I have yet to see Wall Street pay attention to the equipment book-to-bill the way they did to the chip book-to-bill. Since the latter was discontinued, I would guess that the equipment number is seen as too much of a trailing indicator to be of that much interest to the Street.