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[TJ Parker]

certainly not the bogus government numbers that everyone is ballyhooing about nor in corporate earnings reports.

along similar lines, i was struck by the following sentence in the b2b release:

"Overall bookings and billings figures for North American-based semiconductor capital equipment providers have remained essentially flat over the past several months,"

what? the b2b has remained essentially flat, at .9, but that means that its settled into a steady decline of 10% per month. but beyond that weak attempt at spin ... well, at least they got klic to 13 and brks to an amazing 27.