Chip Stocks In Focus, Here’s One To Watch For

• February 11, 2005
• Brice Wightman

Stocks are staging a
strong rally.  Equities are just off session highs despite some
early morning weakness brought on by worries about Dell’s first quarter sales.
Nearly all sectors are in the green with the exception of utilities. 
Semiconductor stocks are leading the pack. Positive comments regarding their
strong demand and lower dependence from just Personal Computers and increasing
demand from gadgets such as portable music players, cell phones, and well as
demand from the auto industry are helping the rally in chip stocks.  Shares
of Intel
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above it’s 200 day moving average.  The stock has been below this benchmark
line since last March.

Strong sectors are: Semiconductors
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Gold Bugs
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+2.22%.

Weak sectors are:  Utility
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Dow		10,809.31
S&P 500		1206.27
Nasdaq		2072.58

The dollar is -0.16 at
84.41

Crude Oil is +0.00 at
47.10

Gold is -+2.80 to 420.80

ce=”Arial” size=”2″ face=”Arial”>Volume is 627 million on the NYSE and
98 million on the Nasdaq.

Market breadth is positive.

NYSE	Issues
Advancing	2025	Up Vol 747
Declining	1071	Down Vol 234
	1.89	3.19
Nasdaq
Advancing	1771	Up Vol  509
Declining	1115	Down Vol 117
	1.59	4.35

Stocks in the News

Dell Inc [DELL|DELL reported earnings
indicated soft sales and offered a disappointing outlook.

Pfizer Inc
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way to market its drugs to doctors.

Veeco Instruments
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results due to an investigation in its TurboDisc unit.

Pixar
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share.

Ebay Inc
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sees lower new capital expenditures this year than it had earlier forecast.

 

Brice Wightman