71.   Output from the electronics sector makes up half of total manufacturing production and accounts for the bulk of exports for the trade-dependent island.

72.   Semiconductor stocks and water-dependent TFT-LCD panel makers led the electronics sector lower, they added.

73.   Rotational interest was evident not only across the board against a relatively weaker electronics sector but also within the sector itself, he said.

74.   Singapore has joined the global wafer fabrication race in earnest to maintain the competitive edge of its electronics sector amid warnings of a future glut in the industry.

75.   Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong expressed confidence Thursday that the city-state would ride out an economic slowdown caused by a downturn in the global electronics sector.

76.   Siemens, the German electrical engineering giant, wants to hive off its defence electronics sector as part of the restructuring of the firm, a company spokesman said.

77.   Some products in the electronics sector which have started to show some signs of recovery but this had not spread to other sectors, the official said.

78.   Telecoms-led declines in the electronics sector and profit-taking in financial and some non-electronics industrials outweighed foreign capital inflows.

79.   Thai stocks closed marginally lower Thursday after late buying in the property and electronics sectors partly offset earlier profit-taking, dealers said.

80.   The consumer electronics sector was more mixed, with Sony seeing a fall in net profit but it projected a tenfold rise this year.