11.  Investors said they expect electronic companies such as NEC and Hitachi to slip.

12.  It licenses the technology to electronic companies, which manufacture the machines.

13.  On the Tokyo stock exchange Friday, electronic companies, many of which are big exporters to the U.S., led the market higher.

14.  Retail and consumer electronic companies such as Sharp SA fell.

15.  Smaller electronic companies, on the other hand, may be a better value, traders said.

16.  Stocks of other electronic processing companies rose the last two days, Segal said.

17.  The electronic utility company said it would use proceeds from the sale to redeem and repay debt.

18.  The Japanese electronic company slipped with other technology shares as investors and analysts said they overestimated the potential profits from growing global demand for computers.

19.  This is not the first attempt to create new technology initiatives in Silicon Valley by creating alliances between Japanese consumer electronic companies and new technology start-up ventures.

20.  U.S. stocks were mixed as a slew of stellar earnings reports from financial companies countered declines in electronic networking companies DSC Communications Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc.