1.   Chief Executive Officer Jim Morgan said the semiconductor industry is at near-historic lows in factory utilization, and cutbacks in capital spending continue.

2.   Offsetting the surprising increase in prices, factory utilization slackened more than expected in April as industrial production was unchanged from a month ago.

3.   Reports on prices, job growth and factory utilization have pointed to a slowdown from the fast pace of growth in the first quarter, and indicated little inflation.

4.   Reports of expanding industrial production and higher factory utilization failed to dent the rally in bonds.

5.   We have full factory capacity utilization.

6.   With factory utilization high and unemployment low, strong domestic demand was bound to pull in a wave of imports.

7.   Figures for industrial production and factory capacity utilization came in about as expected.

8.   Reports due next week on consumer prices and factory utilization could determine the course of stocks, analysts said.