BUYINS.NET: Market Maker Surveillance Report. Top 6 Losing Stocks With Lowest Price Friction For November 25, 2008

Nov 26, 2008 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- ZLC | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- BUYINS.NET, www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for November 25, 2008. Since late October market makers are now required to be on the bid as much as they are on the offer and for like amounts of stock. This "fair market making" requirement is designed to prevent market makers from manipulating stock prices. On Tuesday there were 3,370 companies with "abnormal" market making, 3,254 companies with positive Friction Factors and 2,515 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top 6 companies with the largest dollar loss per share Monday and low price friction (bearish). This means that there was more selling than buying in the stocks and their stock prices dropped faster with less Friction. Zale Corp (NYSE: ZLC), Tat Communciations (NYSE: TCL), Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK), Northern Trust Corp (NASDAQ: NTRS), Kinder Morgan Management (NYSE: KMR | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) and Techne (NASDAQ: TECH). To access Friction Factor, Naked Short Data and SqueezeTrigger Prices on all stocks please visit http://www.buyins.net .

Market Maker Friction Factor is shown in the chart below:

Symbol Change % BuyVol Buy% SellVol Sell% NetVol Friction

ZLC -$3.73 -40.94% 1,793,778 44.33% 1,997,825 49.37% -204,047 -547

TCL -$2.95 -15.95% 103,509 26.25% 211,832 53.72% -108,323 -367

ATK -$2.86 -3.59% 186,866 29.67% 333,332 52.93% -146,466 -512

NTRS -$2.66 -6.07% 1,674,925 45.92% 1,918,256 52.59% -243,331 -915

KMR -$2.63 -6.29% 556,081 30.30% 1,203,817 65.60% -647,736 -2,463

TECH -$2.48 -3.90% 745,688 45.20% 869,587 52.71% -123,899 -500

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Analysis of the Friction Factor chart above shows that each of the six stocks mentioned above have high net dollar losses (Change) and extremely low price friction in their stocks. The Friction Factor displays how many more shares of buying than selling are required to move a stock higher by one cent or how many more shares of selling than buying moves a stock lower by 1 cent.

For example, the chart above shows KMR with a dollar loss Monday of -$2.63 and a Friction Factor of -2,463 shares. That means that it only took 2,463 more shares of selling than buying to move KMR lower by one penny. This means the Market Makers are allowing the stock to drop quickly (low friction). The combination of low friction and negative market direction can drive prices lower faster than normal.

Zale Corporation (NYSE: ZLC | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) operates as a specialty retailer of fine jewelry. The company operates through three segments: Fine Jewelry, Kiosk Jewelry, and All Other. The Fine Jewelry segment operates under five brands. Its Zales Jewelers brand provides moderately priced jewelry with 784 stores in 50 states and Puerto Rico; Zales Outlet brand offers branded watches, gemstones, gold merchandise, and diamond fashion and solitaire products in its 143 stores; and Gordon's Jewelers brand provides jewelry in 261 stores in 35 states of the United States and Puerto Rico; and the Peoples Jewellers and Mappins Jewellers brands offers gold jewelry, gemstone jewelry, and watches through 208 stores in Canada. The Fine Jewelry segment also sells its products through e-commerce sites, such as zales.com and gordonsjewelers.com. The Kiosk Jewelry segment provides gold and silver products primarily under the brand names, including Piercing Pagoda, Plumb Gold, and Silver and Gold Connection through mall-based kiosks in 42 states of the U.S. and Puerto Rico. This segment also offers a collection of popularly-priced bracelets, earrings, charms, rings, 14 karat and 10 karat gold chains, and silver and diamond jewelry. The All Other segment provides insurance and reinsurance facilities for various types of insurance coverage, such as merchandise replacement coverage, credit insurance coverage, and group life insurance coverage. As of July 31, 2008, the company operated 1,396 specialty retail jewelry stores and 739 kiosks in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. Zale Corporation was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Irving, Texas.

Tata Communications Limited (NYSE: TCL | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) and its subsidiaries provide integrated telecommunications solutions in India and internationally. The company operates in three segments: Wholesale Voice, Enterprise and Carrier Data, and Other Services. The Wholesale Voice segment provides international long distance and national long distance voice services. The Enterprise and Carrier Data segment offers corporate data transmission services, such as international private leased circuits, frame relay, Internet leased line circuits, and national private leased circuits. This segment provides IP networks and wholesale IP transit services to tier-2 ISPS, and regional carriers. It also offers mobile signaling services, such as signal conversion and managed roaming services; ethernet services; and Internet protocol and managed services, including Internet telephony, multi protocol label switching based virtual private networks, Internet access, managed hosting, collaboration and conferencing services, managed security services, and other professional services. The Other Services segment provides global roaming, Internet, virtual private network, and data centre services. This segment offers various Internet services, such as connectivity, messaging, Internet telephony, and a range of content services. Tata Communications serves the Fortune 1000 and mid-sized enterprises, service providers, and consumers. The company, formerly known as Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited, was founded in 1986 and is based in Mumbai, India. Tata Communications Limited is a part of the Tata Group.

Alliant Techsystems, Inc. (NYSE: ATK | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) supplies aerospace and defense products to the U.S. government agencies, and its prime contractors and subcontractors. The company also supplies ammunition and related accessories to law enforcement agencies and commercial customers. Its ATK Armament Systems segment offers military ammunition and gun systems, such as small-caliber training and tactical ammunition rounds; medium-caliber ammunition, including fighting and light armored vehicles, helicopters, A-10 close-combat support aircraft, and AC-130 gunship aircraft; and chain guns for medium-caliber gun systems. This segment also provides ammunition, gun care products, targets and traps, rifle scopes and mounts, and binoculars to law enforcement agencies and sport shooting enthusiasts; solid extruded propellant for medium caliber and tank ammunition, artillery charge systems, and air and ground launched rockets; and commercial gun powder for sporting ammunition manufacturers, hunters, and sport shooters. The companys ATK Launch Systems segment manufactures human and cargo space launch vehicles, conventional and strategic missiles, missile defense interceptors, and decoy and illuminating flares. Its ATK Mission Systems segment offers missile systems, precision-guided munitions, force protection systems, speed-of-light weapons, soldier weapon systems, barrier systems, large-caliber ammunition, tactical and hypersonic propulsion systems, warheads, fuzes, missile defense divert and control systems, electronic warfare and aircraft integration products, structural and engine components, radomes, and apertures; solar arrays and solar panel substrates; optical support structures; radio frequency antenna reflectors and antennas; composite bus structures, towers, and subsystems; thermal systems; deployable booms and masts; titanium propellant tanks; and insertion motors, as well as technical services. The company was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Northern Trust Corporation (NASDAQ: NTRS | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) operates as the holding company for The Northern Trust Company that provides a range of banking and financial services to large and mid-sized corporations and financial institutions in the United States and internationally. It generates various deposit products, including demand and other noninterest bearing, savings, money market, savings certificates, and time deposit accounts. The companys loan portfolio comprises residential real estate, commercial real estate, commercial, and personal loans, as well as lease financing. It also provides asset servicing, asset management, and related services to corporate and public retirement funds, foundations, endowments, fund managers, insurance companies, and government funds, as well as offers foreign exchange services. In addition, the company offers personal trust, investment management, custody, and philanthropic services; financial consulting; guardianship and estate administration; qualified retirement plans; and private banking services focusing on high net worth individuals and families, business owners, executives, professionals, retirees, and established privately-held businesses. Further, it provides brokerage, securities lending, transition management, and related services. Northern Trust Corporation was founded in 1889 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Kinder Morgan Management, LLC (NYSE: KMR | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) operates as an energy transportation and storage company in North America. The company operates in five segments: Products Pipelines, Natural Gas Pipelines, CO2, Terminals, and Trans Mountain. The Products Pipelines segment consists of approximately 8,300 miles of refined petroleum products pipelines that deliver gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, and natural gas liquids; and approximately 60 associated product terminals and petroleum pipeline transmix processing facilities. The Natural Gas Pipelines segment comprises 14,700 miles of natural gas transmission pipelines and gathering lines; and natural gas storage, treating, and processing facilities to gather, transport, store, treat, process, and sell natural gas. The CO2 segment produces, markets, and transports carbon dioxide to oil fields, through approximately 1,300 miles of pipelines; owns interests in and/or operates 10 oil fields in West Texas; and owns and operates a 450 mile crude oil pipeline system in West Texas. The Terminals segment consists of approximately 108 owned or operated liquids and bulk terminal facilities; and approximately 45 rail transloading and materials handling facilities in the United States and Canada, which transloads, stores, and delivers various petroleum, petrochemical, and other liquids products. The Trans Mountain segment comprises approximately 700 miles of common carrier pipelines for the transportation of crude oil and refined petroleum to the interior of British Columbia, and to marketing terminals and refineries in the Vancouver, British Columbia and Puget Sound in Washington State; and five associated product terminals. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in Houston, Texas. Kinder Morgan Management LLC operates as a subsidiary of Knight Inc.

TECHNE Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) and its subsidiaries engage in the development and manufacture of biotechnology products, and hematology calibrators and controls primarily in the United States and Europe. The companys biotechnology product line includes Cytokines, extracted from natural sources or produced using recombinant DNA technology; Enzymes and related factors including enzyme substrates and inhibitors; antibodies, proteins produced by the immune system of an animal; assay kits, such as human and animal Quantikine kits, which allow research scientists to quantify the amount of a specific analyte; clinical diagnostic kits, including erythropoietin, transferrin receptor, and Beta2-microglobulin immunoassays; flow cytometry products consisting of fluorochrome labeled antibodies and Fluorokine kits, which measure the presence or absence of cell surface receptors for specific cytokines by flow cytometry; and intracellular cell signaling products, including antibodies, phospho-specific antibodies, antibody protein arrays, active caspases, kinases, phosphatases, and ELISA assays. The hematology product line comprises whole blood CBC controls/calibrators; linearity and reportable range controls that provide a means of assessing the linearity of hematology analyzers for white blood cells, red blood cells, platelets, and reticulocytes; whole blood reticulocyte controls for manual and automated counting of reticulocytes; whole blood flow cytometry controls for flow cytometry instruments; whole blood glucose/hemoglobin control to monitor instruments which measure glucose and hemoglobin in whole blood; erythrocyte sedimentation rate control to monitor erythrocyte sedimentation rate tests; and multi-purpose platelet reference controls for use by automated and semi-automated analyzers. TECHNE Corporation sells its products to research and clinical diagnostics markets. The company was founded in 1976 and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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