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Asian markets edge higher; Chinese shares rise despite earthquake, higher inflation
- Asian markets edged tentatively higher Monday as investors awaited a slew of key U.S. economic data and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's speech this week for hints of what's in store for the U.S. economy. Shanghai's main index inched up, but the advance was capped by worries over inflation and over potential damage from a severe earthquake that hit central China's Sichuan province. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 index rose 88.02 points, or 0.6 per cent, to 13,743.36, and Australia's benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index climbed 1 per cent to 5,828.5 after briefly touching a three-month high. Financial markets in Hong Kong and South Korea were closed for public holidays. Australia's market rose for the third straight day, led by National Australia Bank and other banking stocks after Westpac Banking Corp. approached St. George Bank with a takeover proposal. "Very much in focus were banking stocks, with corporate activity seeming to ignite a lot of interest in that sector, which flowed through to the rest of the market," said Helen Spencer, a private client advisor at Macquarie Equities in Brisbane. Trading in shares of Westpac, Australia's fourth-largest bank by market capitalization, and St. George, the fifth-biggest, is halted for talks on an all-share bid. If successful, the deal would create Australia's largest bank by market capitalization. David Halliday, private client advisor at Macquarie Private Wealth in Sydney, said that Westpac's move sent a strong signal to the market about where the major banks saw their own sector. National Australia Bank advanced 5.9 per cent, Commonwealth Bank gained 4.4 per cent, and Australia and New Zealand Banking Group added 3 per cent. Investors in the regional were cautious ahead of the release of April consumer price index and retail sales figures out of the U.S., a key export market. Also, Bernake and other Federal Reserve officials are giving speeches this week. "Players are watching how the outcome (of the speeches) will affect the global stock market," said Tsuyoshi Segawa, equity strategist at Shinko Securities in Tokyo. He said lingering worries over the credit crisis continued to weigh on the market. "We all knew that the credit crunch problem has not been resolved, it's just that optimism has outperformed pessimism lately," he said. In Tokyo, gainers included electronics firm Kyocera Corp. rose 2.1 per cent and Konica Minolta Holdings Inc. jumped 12 per cent. In mainland China, stocks rebounded from early losses on gains in banking shares. The Shanghai Composite Index rose 0.4 per cent to 3,626.98. The Shenzhen Composite Index rose 1.3 per cent to 1,111.97. Share prices fell after the government announced that the consumer price index, the country's main inflation benchmark, rose 8.5 per cent in April over the same month a year earlier. That was an acceleration from March's 8.3 per cent increase, although short of February's 8.7 per cent rise, the highest in 12 years. In afternoon trading, heavyweight banks rose on bargain hunting. Shenzhen Development Bank rose 2.9 per cent while Bank of Communications gained 1.3 per cent. "Investors were rebuilding positions after the official data confirmed market rumors, but concerns that the high inflation won't ease in the short term would limit buying interest," said Amy Lin, an analyst at CSC International Holdings. Analysts said the central bank would likely implement more tightening measures to curb inflation, such as raising banks' reserve requirement ratio or benchmark interest rates. Analysts said that shares of companies located in the Sichuan region may fall in coming sessions due to the 7.8-magnitude earthquake, which struck Wenchuan county in Sichuan midafternoon Monday. Shares in aircraft makers also rose after the launch Sunday of a state-owned manufacturer of large planes. Hafei Aviation Industry surged by the 10 per cent daily limit, while Xi'an Aircraft International soared 5.3 per cent to 25.68 yuan. Elsewhere in the region, the Philippines' key index rose 0.9 per cent to 2,803.49, while Taiwan's main index rose 0.4 per cent to 8,830.05. In currencies, the dollar was quoted at 103.32 yen midafternoon in Tokyo, compared with 103.04 yen in New York late Friday. The euro stood at US$1.5406, down from US$1.5456 late Friday in New York.
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Appointments Deirdre Murray joined Qwest Communications International Inc., of Denver, as business development manager of the company's government services division.
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TSMC, UMC April sales up y/y, q/q
The world's top two pure-play semiconductor foundries both saw revenues in April rise on a year-over-year as well as sequential basis.
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AMD continues to withhold details on asset-lite plans
Advanced Micro Devices continued to withhold details on its "asset-smart" strategy at its 2008 annual meeting of stockholders Thursday.
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International Science and Engineering Fair Opens Today
Young scientists and innovators from around the world arrived in Atlanta today to compete in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair presented by Agilent Technologies.
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Samsung's Hope for Education Technology Program
Contest is open only to legal residents of the fifty United States and the District of Columbia.
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Freescale begins consultation on future of Scottish plant
Almost a year after announcing that it was looking to sell its wafer fab in East Kilbride, Scotland, as a going concern, Freescale Semiconductor has told staff that no buyer has come forward and that it is ...
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Integrated Silicon Solution appoints new CFO
Chip supplier Integrated Silicon Solution Inc. said Monday it named John M. Cobb as chief financial officer and vice president of finance and administration, effective May 12.
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QuickLogic Enhances SDIO Host Controller Solution to Handle Multiple Cards, Mixed Sizes
Continuing its commitment to the mobile device market, QuickLogic Corporation , has enhanced its proven SDIO host controller solution by providing it with the ability to handle multiple, independent memory ...
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Egenera Uses Micron's Aspen Memory(R) Modules to Reduce Data Center Server Power Consumption
Micron Technology, Inc. today announced that Egenera Inc., a global leader in Infrastructure Virtualization solutions, has designed Micron ' s line of energy-efficient Aspen Memory products into its Egenera ...
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Troubleshooting performance problems, configuring routers or responding to help-desk calls might not bring images of mom to everyone's mind, but network managers say that without applying key lessons learned ...
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KLA-Tencor Announces Analyst Day 2008
Tencor Corporation today announced that its Analyst Day event will be held on June 5, 2008 from 7:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. PDT at the KLA-Tencor Corporate Headquarters in Milpitas, Calif.
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Thin-Film Batteries Move Toward Commercialization
Thin-film battery technology gained considerable momentum in recent years and now moves toward commercialization.
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TranSwitch Announces Industry's Most Flexible Programmable Silicon Platform for Access Applications
... Platform Products for TranSwitch corporation. TranSwitch Corporation designs, develops and markets innovative semiconductors that provide core functionality and complete solutions for voice, data and video communications network equipment. As a ...
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Micrel Sends Letter to Shareholders
Micrel, Incorporated and its Board of Directors today issued the following letter to its shareholders regarding proposals made by Obrem Capital Management to be voted upon at the May 20, 2008 Special Meeting of ...
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AMD Launches Low-Power Opterons
Advanced Micro Devices launched a low-power version of its Opteron processor on Monday, targeting customers who are hoping to save a few watts in the data center.
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Microtune's New Multi-Standard 1-GHz Tuner Supports Low-Power...
Permalink Microtune ' s New Multi-Standard 1-GHz Tuner Supports Low-Power Consumer Equipment in All-Digital Cable Networks Microtune ' s New Cable Tuner, with Less Than 900 mWatts of Power Consumption, Supports ...
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Expanded Programmable Analog Performance of New Cypress PSoC(R)...
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. today introduced a new PSoC mixed-signal array with an enhanced analog-to-digital converter for fast analog sampling and expanded 8 Kbytes of Flash memory capacity for complex ...
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Wave to Demonstrate Hardware-based Enterprise Data Protection in...
Wave Systems Corp. announced it is participating in Dell ' s global " Future of Computing " Road Show, demonstrating the company ' s hardware-based data protection solutions with Seagate Technology, LLC.
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Applied Materials Announces Powerful SunFab Performance Service;...
Comtex SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 12, 2008 ----Applied Materials, Inc. today announced another first for the solar industry with its SunFab Performance Service program.
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