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From full global headquarters, this is Motley Fool Money.

It's the Motley Fool Money Radio Show. I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio this week

from Motley Fool One, Jason Moser from Motley Fool Pro and Options Jeff Fisher

and for a million-dollar portfolio of Ron Gross, good to see you as always, gentlemen.

The earning season is officially here. We will dig into some of the latest results

best selling author Dan Levitton will help explain how we can be more productive

and why multitasking is in fact bad for us and as always we'll give you an inside look at the stocks on our radar.

But we begin with the increased volatility in the market.

Microtrip technology is a relatively small company in the semiconductor industry

but after warning the third quarter sales will be lower than previously thought.

Semiconductor stocks across the board were being sold off on Friday.

Jeff, I can understand this if we were talking about Intel making this kind of warning.

What Intel micron technology across the board, much bigger semiconductor companies are being taken down.

What's going on?

Exactly. A little microchip which has about 560 million in quarterly revenue is taken down the entire sector.

The reason why I really Chris is they book their results on a sell through basis

which means they look at results based on the end customer where most the industry looks at sell-in.

Intel sells into a PC manufacturer they count that as revenue.

This company is a good leading indicator to weakness on the customer end which may then trickle through

and hit all the other chip makers down the road.

Secondly, they said September was weak and September is usually a strong month but it was weak because of China.

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