81.   Given the cheaper prices in the long-battered tech sector, one market observer said he expected investors to do more buying Thursday.

82.   Goldman Sachs analyst Abby Joseph Cohen said the tech sector is poised for a comeback within the next several weeks as the profit outlook strengthens and relative valuations improve.

83.   Given the cheaper prices in the long-battered tech sector, one market observer said he expected Wall Street investors to do more buying Thursday.

84.   In the tech sector, semiconductor stocks fell after Merrill Lynch downgraded many companies, including PMC-Sierra and Intel.

85.   In the tech sector, attention was focused on bellwethers Intel and IBM, scheduled to report their earnings later Tuesday.

86.   In the tech sector, attention was focused on bellwethers Intel and IBM, which were scheduled to report their earnings later Tuesday.

87.   Investors bid down the safer stocks like drug issues after months of running them up when riskier tech sectors fell out of favor.

88.   Investors have been selling stocks on their fears about an economic slowdown and falling corporate profits since Labor Day, with the tech sector hardest hit.

89.   Investors traded more cautiously in the tech sector, however, troubled by reports of improper accounting at Computer Associates.

90.   Investors were particularly cautious in trading in the tech sector.