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Posted on Monday, 11th July 2011 by Emily Smith

Exchange traded funds that invest in semiconductor and chip stocks lost more than 3% in Tuesday’s mixed overall market due to weakness in top holdings Novellus , Texas Instruments , Applied Materials and Intel .

The chip sector fell sharply Tuesday after Microchip Technology cut its profit outlook.

The company cited several reasons for the warning, including an “inventory correction” after the Japan earthquake and broad-based weak demand across a number of key segments, said analysts at Collins Stewart in a note Tuesday.

Microchip Technology “anticipates the weak demand trends that it has seen will also broadly impact the semiconductor industry in the June/September quarter,” they wrote. “Microchip indicated that it saw weak demand trends across all major geographies including U.S., Europe  and China.”

Semiconductor HOLDRS and SPDR S&P Semiconductor ETF fell more than 3% on Tuesday.

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Posted on Monday, 11th July 2011 by Emily Smith

Credit is given to those that are worthy of it. It is a measure of how excellent you are as an individual as credit measures how accurate you are to your word, how excellent you are in repaying some thing which you have borrowed. Credit cards are meant to assist people do their simple household needs: shopping, dining, or loading up on gas and others. The plastic or the card is actually a means for people to put the goods that they bought on the credit lending companys tab. In return, they repay it back to them.

Occasionally though, we get ourselves in Credit Card Debt because we invest beyond our means. As opposed to paying the bill in full, we only pay the minimum amount necessary to be in excellent standing with credit card firms. But then, we still owe them the balance and as a consequence, they charge us a corresponding interest on the income that they lent out.

Pay off credit card debt entails a willingness to repay what is due. That is why most firms have programs to assist you pay off your accounts. You can find plenty of techniques on how you are able to do this.

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Posted on Sunday, 10th July 2011 by Emily Smith

ATLANTA – In a deal that strengthens its presence in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic states, Eagle Hospital Physicians announced today its acquisition of hospitalist company PrimeDoc Management Services.

PrimeDoc, which primarily serves seven acute-care facilities in Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia, employs more than 100 physicians and also has programs for long-term care and urgent care. With the acquisition, Eagle now employs more than 300 physicians and has contracts with more than 30 hospitals in seven states.

“This is a major milestone in the ongoing evolution of Eagle Hospital Physicians as a leading hospitalist management company,” said Brent McCarty, CEO of Eagle in a statement announcing the deal. “PrimeDoc’s shared practice model, focused on aligning hospital outcomes and quality patient care, meshes well with Eagle’s model of care.”

Founded in 1997 by Robert J. Reynolds MD, president and CEO, PrimeDoc is one of the largest private-practice hospitalist companies in the southeast. PrimeDoc hosp

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Posted on Saturday, 9th July 2011 by Emily Smith

The latest Europe debt-crisis action is pretty substantive, on a couple fronts. I’ll get to that in a minute, but first it’s worth pausing to look at a graphic from a new BIS report (PDF).

The graph shows lending between banks in different countries. It looks like a web made by an insane spider, which is precisely the point: Banks in the U.S. and Europe are connected by a dense web of interbank lending.

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European banks hold a lot of European government bonds. So if one of the larger troubled EU countries (Spain or Italy) can’t pay its debt, that could trigger problems throughout the European banking sector. And, as this graph shows, trouble for European banks could mean trouble for U.S. banks.

The latest from Europe:

1. For months now, there’s been a sense that the EU could manage the fiscal troubles in Greece, Ireland and Portugal. Read more…

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Posted on Thursday, 7th July 2011 by Emily Smith

People spend two days a week using the internet The UK is a nation of internet addicts, spending an average of 50 hours a week online – the equivalent of more than two whole days.

The increasing habit of using the internet for work, leisure and shopping means that we are online for increasing lengths of time.

uSwitch research found that whereas the average person spent five hours online in a typical weekday in 2009, this has now risen to four hours for professional purposes and five for pleasure.

This includes social networking, downloading musing, shopping online and watching films or TV shows.

The highest online use was seen in young adults, with 14% of 18-24 year olds spending over ten hours a day online at the weekend.

As Google+, Facebook and Twitter battle to attract users, the study confirmed that social networking is taking up more of our spare time.

Social interaction online was named as the main culprit for spending extensive time on the internet.

93% of 18-24 year olds regularly use social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.

Online shopping is another reason for online activity as people become increasingly bargain-savvy – 90% now shop online and 85% manage their money online.

The internet has also become a primary source for our entertainment - more than half watch TV and films and a third download their music via the internet.

Londoners were found to spend the most time online – over 55 hours a week, followed closely by the North West at 53 hours a week online, while those in the North East spend the least at just 46 hours per week.

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