Buying trends 'on display'.

Trends in the U.S. electronics equipment market (shipments only).

                                                      % Change
                                           Dec.  Jan. (r)  Feb.*  YTD

Computers and electronics products          0.7    3.7     -1.0   10.2
Computers                                   2.1   10.3      1.3   28.5
Storage devices                            11.4   -1.9     -1.4   24.5
Other peripheral equipment                 -6.5    6.9     -4.1    1.5
Nondefense communications equipment        -3.9    6.7     -1.7    2.9
Defense communications equipment           63.6  -34.6     46.7   11.7
A/V equipment                               3.2    0.0     -8.7   27.1
Semiconductors                             -4.3   13.0     -7.1   12.3
Components (1)                              4.7    0.0      1.5   16.3
Nondefense search and navigation
  equipment                                -0.8    2.8      0.9   10.7
Defense search and navigation equipment    -2.4   -2.8      6.6    7.1
Medical, measurement and control            2.3   -2.9     -1.8   -4.8

(r) Revised. * Preliminary. (1) Includes semiconductors. Seasonally
adjusted. Source: U.S. Department of Commerce Census Bureau, April 2005