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MarketEye Research Center Update Archives

Each week TTI sends a brief summary of new articles published to the MarketEye Research Center from industry experts: Dennis Zogbi (passives), Ron Bishop (connectors), Michael Schwert (switches and relays), and Walt Custer (industry business conditions).

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12.01.2008dotclearMarketEye for Tuesday, December 2, 2008
In this week’s edition of MarketEye, Walt Custer provides an update on the global electronic component industry, noting that the economic slowdown is ubiquitous.; Switch and relay analyst, Michael Schwert, recently traveled to Hong Kong and Germany for two industry trade shows. He compares the two events in this issue of MarketEye.
 
11.24.2008dotclearMarketEye for Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Walt Custer provides another timely electronic industry update. In this edition of MarketEye, he discusses the exchange rate flux, commodity prices, the status of the global food chain, and the SIA and WSTS forecasts.
 
11.17.2008dotclearMarketEye for Tuesday, November 18, 2008
In this edition of MarketEye, Walt Custer discusses the shocking financial results for Q3, component shipments in Europe, and October sales data in the Taiwan/China region.; Connector analyst, Ron Bishop, provides his annual review of the top 10 connector manufacturers in the electronic component industry.
 
11.10.2008dotclearMarketEye for Tuesday, November 11, 2008
In this week’s edition of MarketEye, Walt Custer provides an economic update on the electronic industry and makes some predictions for the future.; Switch and relay analyst, Michael Schwert, provides an overview of the switch and relay industry in Europe. Future articles from Schwert will include a comparative analysis of the European market to the North American market.
 
11.03.2008dotclearMarketEye for Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Walt Custer shares the economy section of Ed Henderson’s October 2008 “Henderson Electronic Market Forecast” in this edition of MarketEye.; In this edition of MarketEye, Dennis Zogbi explains how the economy and negative journalism are affecting the passive component industry.
 
10.27.2008dotclearMarketEye for Tuesday, October 28, 2008
This week in MarketEye, Walt Custer provides the charts from his presentation to the Chicagoland Circuit Board Association.
 
10.21.2008dotclearMarketEye for Tuesday, October 21, 2008
In this edition of MarketEye, Walt Custer reports on the economic indices, PCB performance in Japan, North American SEMI shipments, the mobile phone and PC markets, as well as the IT spending outlook.; Since 1990, Bishop & Associates has recorded 261 acquisitions in the connector industry. Approximately, half of these occurred in the period from 1995-2000. In this edition of MarketEye, Bishop focuses on the merger and acquisition activity in today’s market.
 
10.13.2008dotclearMarketEye for Tuesday, October 14, 2008
In this edition of MarketEye, Walt Custer notes that economists have adjusted their forecasts due to the current state of the economy. He also reports on mixed results in Taiwan and China and growth in the solar/photovotaic industry.; In this edition of MarketEye, Dennis Zogbi explains a new method for mounting aluminum electrolytic capacitors to printed circuit boards and how it may impact the entire passive component industry.
 
10.07.2008dotclearMarketEye for Tuesday, October 7, 2008
In this edition of MarketEye, Walt Custer takes a look at the electronic component industry and how the current economic crisis has affected the supply chain.; In this switch MarketEye article, analyst Michael Schwert reports that the North American switch market is up, bookings are the same, and prices are off compared to 2007.
 
09.29.2008dotclearMarketEye for Wednesday, October 1, 2008
In this edition of MarketEye, Walt Custer gives a synopsis of his keynote speech on global business conditions in Russia.
 
09.23.2008dotclearMarketEye for Tuesday, September 23, 2008
In this edition of MarketEye, Walt Custer gives FOREX and material costs updates as well as an economic forecast.
 
09.15.2008dotclearMarketEye for Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Business analyst, Walt Custer provides a brief overview of the electronics industry. He reports slight overall growth; In this edition of MarketEye, Michael Schwert reports on switches and relays noting slight improvement from last quarter but down overall from 2007.
 
09.09.2008dotclearMarketEye for Tuesday, September 9, 2008
In his latest MarketEye article, Walt Custer provides a market overview and discusses the soft landing in most sector of the electronic industry.; Paumanok Publications, Inc. has been monitoring a global trend to design in more thin film chip resistor components instead of the traditional thick film solutions employed for the last 25 years. In this edition of MarketEye, Dennis Zogbi explains why this trend will grow into a multimillion dollar market over the next five years.
 
09.02.2008dotclearMarketEye for Wednesday, September 3, 2008
TTI’s resident business analyst, Walt Custer, discusses how the electronic component industry fared in the second quarter of this year. He reports some growth and a softer global electronics expansion; Bob Hult of Bishop and Associates, Inc. provides an overview of the power connector product set in this issue of MarketEye
 
08.26.2008dotclearMarketEye for Tuesday, August 26, 2008
In this week’s edition of MarketEye, Walt Custer provides information on industrial production growth, electronic equipment shipments, the Japanese electronic market, pricing information, and a status on the semiconductor and world server shipments.
 
08.18.2008dotclearMarketEye for Tuesday, August 19, 2008
In this issue of MarketEye, Walt Custer discusses the softening of the European and Japanese economies, falling oil prices, the strengthening of the U.S. Dollar, and the status of the electronics industry in Southeast Asia. ; Ron Bishop, TTI’s connector analyst, provides a mid-year review of the connector industry and an outlook for the remainder of 2008 in this issue of MarketEye.
 
08.11.2008dotclearMarketEye for Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Business analyst Walt Custer provides a global overview of the electronic components industry in this week’s edition of MarketEye.
 
08.04.2008dotclearMarketEye for Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Walt Custer, TTI’s resident business analysis, provides a look at the global electronics industry. He notes overall moderate growth.; In this edition of MarketEye, Michael Schwert explains how the housing and automotive markets are negatively affecting the switch and relay market. He also talks about ZF Group’s acquisition of Cherry Corporation.
 
07.28.2008dotclearMarketEye for Tuesday, July 29, 2008
In this edition of MarketEye business analyst, Walt Custer, reviews a number of key releases that occurred in the global electronics industry last week. ; Zogbi on Passives: CY 2008 has proven to be a difficult time for regional economies and specific end-use segments, but the fundamentals remain healthy. In this installment of Marketeye, Dennis Zogbi shows how specific forecasts made by his company, Paumanok Publications, at the beginning of the year are now playing themselves out as anticipated but with a few additional eye-opening surprises.
 
07.21.2008dotclearMarketEye for Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Business analyst Walt Custer provides a global overview of the electronic components industry in this week’s edition of MarketEye.
 
07.15.2008dotclearMarketEye for Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Custer on Business Conditions: Global Economic Outlook (through 2010) ; Schwert on Switches and Relays: Relays Start 2008 where they Finished 2007; And are we in a Recession?
 
07.07.2008dotclearMarketEye for Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Custer: Soft Domestic Landing in Progress? Or is the U.S. Seasonally-Adjusted DOC Data too Optimistic?; Hult of Bishop & Associates: Hult: RoHS Rolling On
 
07.01.2008dotclearMarketEye for Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Custer on Business Conditions: In this edition of MarketEye, Custer offers a brief overview of the electronic component industry.; Zogbi on Passives: Passive component analyst, Dennis Zogbi discusses how the new developments in the supply chain for tantalum capacitors have created concern about potential price increases for the specialty dielectric. Raw materials suppliers to the tantalum capacitor industry have indicated they cannot mine ore profitably at current levels to satisfy demand from the high tech economy.
 
06.23.2008dotclearMarketEye for Tuesday, June 24, 2008
In the latest edition of MarketEye, Walt Custer reports on the status of the electronic component industry while focusing on mobile phone component inventory, specifically Apple’s 3G iPhone.