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Comerica began amassing its stake in Munder Capital in the 1990s and rode a wave of success during the tech bubble, only to get burned by writedowns when the bubble burst.

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Her view is that the market--based in part on forecasts from Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and others about U.S. troubles spreading--is wrongly expecting that the entire aerospace sector will ultimately get burned by the U.S. credit market's meltdown.

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It does that by working closely with chip designers to get ever more functions burned into silicon and by lending its purchasing clout and efficiency skills to Delta Networks.

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