BUYINS.NET: Market Maker Surveillance Report. Highest Net Sell Volume and Negative Price Friction Stocks For December 3, 2008

Dec 04, 2008 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- UN | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- BUYINS.NET, www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for December 3, 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 Wednesday there were 3,156 companies with "abnormal" market making, 3,313 companies with positive Friction Factors and 2,443 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top 6 companies with the highest net sell volume on Wednesday and lowest negative price Friction (bearish). This means that there was more selling than buying in the stocks and their stock prices dropped faster with less Friction. Thornburg Mortgage (NYSE: TMA), International Coal Group (NYSE: ICO), Unilever (NYSE: UN), Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA), Halliburton (NYSE: HAL | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) and Infineon Technologies (NYSE: IFX). 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

TMA -$0.09 -30.00% 8,325,075 39.11% 12,422,754 58.36% -4,097,679 -455,298

ICO -$0.04 -1.65% 656,641 20.12% 2,280,707 69.88% -1,624,066 -406,017

UN -$0.12 -0.53% 1,215,181 30.93% 2,348,684 59.79% -1,133,503 -94,459

JAVA -$0.06 -1.85% 7,035,190 46.40% 8,097,390 53.40% -1,062,200 -177,033

HAL -$0.32 -2.08% 7,375,304 42.08% 8,379,513 47.81% -1,004,209 -31,382

IFX -$0.77 -37.93% 7,657,320 41.83% 8,651,483 47.26% -994,163 -12,911

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Analysis of the Friction Factor chart above shows that each of the six stocks mentioned above have low price friction combined with more selling than buying (negative Net Volume) 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 JAVA down -$0.06 with a Friction Factor of -177,033 and a Net Volume of -1,062,200. That means that it takes 177,033 more shares of selling than buying to drop JAVA by one penny. On Wednesday the Market Makers allowed the stock to move down on heavier selling than buying (low negative friction).

Thornburg Mortgage, Inc. (NYSE: TMA | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) operates as a residential mortgage lending company. It originates, acquires, and retains investments in adjustable and variable rate mortgage (ARM) assets. The companys ARM assets consist of purchased ARM assets and ARM loans, including traditional ARM assets and hybrid ARM assets. It acquires and originates assets, through correspondent lending, wholesale lending, direct retail lending, and bulk acquisition programs. Thornburg Mortgage, Inc. acquires ARM assets from investment banking firms, broker-dealers, mortgage bankers, mortgage brokerage firms, banks, savings and loan institutions, credit unions, home builders, and other entities involved in originating, securitizing, packaging, and selling mortgage-backed securities and mortgage loans. It operates as an externally advised real estate investment trust (REIT). As a REIT, the company would not be subject to federal corporate income tax, provided it distributes at least 90% of taxable income to its shareholders. Thornburg Mortgage, Inc. was founded in 1992 and is based in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

International Coal Group, Inc. (NYSE: ICO), through its subsidiaries, produces coal in Northern and Central Appalachia with a range of mid to high Btu, low to medium sulfur steam, and metallurgical coal. It produces, processes, and sells steam coal from 12 regional mining complexes, which, as of December 31, 2007 were supported by 13 active underground mines, 13 active surface mines, and 9 preparation plants located throughout West Virginia, Kentucky, Maryland, and Illinois. The company owned or controlled approximately 316 million tons of metallurgical quality coal reserves and approximately 649 million tons of steam coal reserves. It markets its coal to various customers, including investment grade electric utilities, as well as domestic and international industrial customers. International Coal Group was founded in 2004 and is based in Scott Depot, West Virginia.

Unilever N.V. (NYSE: UN), together with its subsidiaries, produces and supplies fast moving consumer goods in food, and home and personal care product categories in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa. It offers soups, bouillons, sauces, snacks, mayonnaise, salad dressings, olive oil, margarines, spreads, and frozen foods, as well as cooking products, such as liquid margarines under Knorr, Hellmanns, Becel/Flora, Rama/Blue Band, Calv WishBone, Amora, Ragd Bertolli brands. The company also provides ice creams under the international Heart brand, including Cornetto, Magnum, Carte dOr and Solero, Walls, Kibon, Algida, Ola, Ben & Jerrys, Breyers, Klondike, and Popsicle brands; tea-based beverages under Lipton, Brooke Bond, and PG Tips brands; weight management products under SlimFast brand; and nutritionally enhanced products under Annapurna and AdeS/Adez brands. In addition, it offers personal care products, including deodorants, anti-perspirants, skin care, and hair care products under Dove, Lux, Rexona, Sunsilk, Axe, Ponds, Suave, Clear, Lifebuoy, and Vaseline brands, as well as oral care products under Signal and Close Up brands. Further, the company provides laundry products, such as tablets, powders, liquids, and soap bars under Omo, Surf, Comfort, Radiant, Skip, and Snuggle brands; and household care products, including surface cleaners and bleach under Cif, Domestos, and Sun/Sunlight brands. It also offers solutions for professional chefs and caterers. The company sells its products through its sales force, independent brokers, agents, and distributors to chain, wholesale, co-operative, and independent grocery accounts; and food service distributors and institutions. It also distributes its products through a network of distribution centers, satellite warehouses, company-operated and public storage facilities, and depots. Unilever N.V., formerly known as Naamlooze Vennootschap Margarine Unie, was founded in 1927 and is based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) provides network computing infrastructure solutions worldwide. It offers its solutions under the Java technology platform, the Solaris Operating System, the MySQL database management system, Sun StorageTek storage solutions, and the UltraSPARC processor names. The company also develops networking computing products and technologies that include servers, storage, open source software, tools, services, and training. It offers servers, such as entry server systems, and enterprise and data center servers based on SPARC64, UltraSPARC, AMD Opteron, and Intel Xeon microprocessors; desktops; data storage products and services, including libraries, drives, virtualization systems, media, and software; and disk system products comprising data center disks, network attached storage, enterprise archive system, midrange disks, workgroups disks, a boot disk, and disk device software, as well as develops and sells silicon-based chips that facilitate networking, cryptography, and high-performance computing. The companys software offerings primarily comprise enterprise infrastructure software systems, software desktop systems, developer software, and infrastructure management software. In addition, Sun Microsystems offers component products, such as central processor unit chips and embedded boards on an original equipment manufacturer basis; and supplies after-market and peripheral products. Further, it offers support and managed services for hardware, software, and client solutions, as well as provides professional and educational services. The companys solutions are used in search, social networking, entertainment, financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, retail, news, energy, and engineering companies. It has strategic alliances and partnerships with Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Fujitsu; Intel Corporation; and Hitachi Data Systems. The company was founded in 1982 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

Halliburton Company (NYSE: HAL | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) provides various products and services to the energy industry for the exploration, development, and production of oil and gas properties worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Completion and Production, and Drilling and Evaluation. The Completion and Production segment provides production enhancement services, completion tools and services, and cementing services. Its production enhancement services include stimulation services, pipeline process services, sand control services, and well intervention services; completion tools and services consist of subsurface safety valves and flow control equipment, surface safety systems, packers and specialty completion equipment, intelligent completion systems, expandable liner hanger systems, sand control systems, well servicing tools, and reservoir performance services; and cementing services comprise bonding the well and well casing, while isolating fluid zones and maximizing wellbore stability. The Drilling and Evaluation segment provides field and reservoir modeling, drilling, evaluation, and well-bore placement solutions that enable customers to model, measure, and optimize their well construction activities. Its offerings include baroid fluid services, sperry drilling services, security DBS drill bits, wireline and perforating services, and project management, as well as integrated exploration, drilling, and production software information systems. In addition, Halliburton Company provides real time tiltmeter and microseismic mapping and reservoir monitoring services. The company serves national and independent oil and gas companies. Halliburton Company was founded in 1919 and is based in Houston, Texas.

Infineon Technologies AG (NYSE: IFX | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) designs, develops, manufactures, and markets semiconductors and system solutions used in various microelectronic applications in Europe, Asia, and North America. Its products include standard commodity components, full-custom devices, semi-custom devices, and application-specific components for memory, analog, digital, and mixed-signal applications. The companys Automotive, Industrial, and Multimarket segment offers power semiconductors; sensors and microcontrollers with and without embedded memory, silicon discretes, chip card, and security integrated circuits (ICs); and application-specific IC design solutions. The companys Communication Solutions segment offers various wireless communications products, including baseband ICs, RF transceivers and single-chip ICs, power management ICs, and radio-frequency products, as well as RF-power components for wireless infrastructure. Its solutions include hardware system design and software solutions for mobile telephone systems and Bluetooth, as well as DECT/WDCT systems. This segment also provides wireline communications products, including ICs for voice and core access solutions, and broadband access system solutions for xDSL and VoIP, as well as system solutions for broadband CPE and home networking equipment. The companys Qimonda segment designs memory technologies and develops, manufactures, and markets various memory products on a module, component, and chip level. In addition, it offers advanced DRAM products for infrastructure, graphics, mobile, and consumer applications, as well as standard DRAM products for personal computers, notebooks, and workstations. The company has strategic alliances with International Business Machines Corporation; Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, Ltd.; Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.; United Microelectronics Corporation; Hyundai Motor Company; and Micron Technology, Inc. Infineon Technologies AG was founded in 1999 and is based in Neubiberg, Germany.

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