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...demand has come mostly from manufacturers of PCs, next-generation cell phones and consumer electronics, including ever more sophisticated game consoles such as Xbox and GameCube. But telecom companies have stepped up their pace too. "Later in the year, we could see a real surprise," says analyst Chris Chaney at A.G. EDWARDS. "Someone like Intel could come in with a big order for new equipment." Chaney favors the equipment makers, which he views as better values than the chipmakers. The equipment companies' shares also tend to be earlier movers, because chipmakers must buy more equipment before they can produce more...
Meanwhile, the lift-off thus far has been more projected than real. "We've seen stabilization, but the end market hasn't recovered," notes analyst Jeremy Lopez at MORNINGSTAR. At Applied Materials, revenue will be down 40% this year, and the firm will earn just 25[cents] a share, Chaney estimates, compared with $2.39 in the peak year of 2000. It will be two to three years before earnings per share top the previous peak, he says. And you shouldn't own the stock unless you believe that will happen...
...invest in new processes and research. The company refined its semiconductor and liquid-crystal-display operations so effectively that traditional competition from Tokyo was upended. "Samsung is more cost effective, and its manufacturing technology is better than at companies like Sharp and Hitachi," says Shiro Mikoshiba, a Nomura Securities analyst in Tokyo. "The Japanese stopped competing two years...
...supportive Rada is vital. Few Ukrainians outside the ruling class seem to care much about the elections, though. Most are becoming alienated from the political process. They have other things to worry about, like making ends meet. In 1990, on the eve of independence, says Miroslav Popovich, a political analyst and director of the Institute of Philosophy in Kyiv, "Ukraine was an industrial- agricultural country, with more population in cities than in the countryside. In the past 10 years the trend has been reversed." The majority now live again in villages, he says, in circumstances of "appalling poverty, with...
...points. Even for overseas journeys, most customers are onboard within 15 minutes of their airport arrival. And if you wrap up your work early, or need to stay late, the airplane is ready when you are. "Reducing the hassle factor is a very important consideration," says Daniel Solon, an analyst at Avmark International, an aviation consultancy in London...