Semiconductor equipment stocks like Applied Materials have boomed while The Streets semiconductor analysts worry over whether personal computer sales are about to peak.
Applied Materials (AMAT) is expected to report poor first quarter earnings on Wednesday, February 13, 2013 with analysts expecting a 83.3% drop in earnings from a year ago.
Intelligence analysts have spent the months since bin Laden was killed sifting through documents, letters, video and other materials retrieved from his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.