BUYINS.NET: Market Maker Surveillance Report. Top 6 Losing Stocks With Lowest Price Friction For March 24, 2009

Mar 25, 2009 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) --
TTES | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- BUYINS.NET, www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for March 24, 2009. 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 3,358 companies with "abnormal" market making, 1,960 companies with positive Friction Factors and 3,599 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top 6 companies with the largest dollar loss per share Tuesday 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. T-3 Energy Services (NASDAQ: TTES), Cullen/Frost Bankers (NYSE: CFR | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating), Millicom International Cellular (NASDAQ: MICC | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating), M and T Bank (NYSE: MTB | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating), Affiliated Managers Group (NYSE: AMG | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) and Lufkin Industries (NYSE: LUFK). 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

TTES -$3.89 -26.20% 882,200 47.53% 940,322 50.66% -58,122 -149

CFR -$3.88 -7.84% 336,850 32.47% 475,089 45.80% -138,239 -356

MICC -$3.43 -7.59% 706,259 49.08% 726,428 50.48% -20,169 -59

MTB -$3.35 -6.87% 798,528 34.62% 916,131 39.72% -117,603 -351

AMG -$3.00 -6.40% 564,418 41.94% 574,274 42.67% -9,856 -33

LUFK -$2.90 -7.22% 182,584 40.53% 221,510 49.17% -38,926 -134

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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 TTES with a dollar loss Tuesday of -$3.89 and a Friction Factor of -149 shares. That means that it only took 149 more shares of selling than buying to move TTES 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.

T-3 Energy Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTES), together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, repairs, and services products used in the drilling and completion of new oil and gas wells, the workover of existing wells, and the production and transportation of oil and gas primarily in the United States and Canada. It offers pressure and flow control products, such as blow-out preventers (BOPs), BOP control systems, elastomer products, high pressure gate valves, manifolds, and control valves, as well as production, drilling, and well service chokes that are used in the drilling, completion, production, and workover of onshore, offshore, and subsea applications. The company also provides wellhead products, which include wellheads, production chokes, and production valves used for onshore oil and gas production. In addition, it offers pipeline products, which comprise various valves for pipeline applications, including gate, ball, control, and check valves. Further, the company provides aftermarket parts and services, such as remanufactured products and parts, repair, and field services. It markets its products through its direct sales force to drilling contractors, exploration and production companies, and pipeline companies. T-3 Energy Services, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is based in Houston, Texas.

Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc. (NYSE: CFR), through its subsidiaries, provides various banking and financial products and services primarily in Texas. The company, through its principal subsidiary, The Frost National Bank (Frost Bank), offers various commercial banking services to corporations and other business clients, such as financing for industrial and commercial properties; financing for equipment, inventories, and accounts receivable; acquisition financing; commercial leasing; and treasury management services. The bank also offers consumer banking services, including checking accounts, savings programs, automated teller machines, overdraft facilities, installment and real estate loans, home equity loans and lines of credit, deposit services, safe deposit facilities, and brokerage services; and international banking services comprising accepting deposits, making loans, issuing letters of credit, handling foreign collections, transmitting funds, and dealing in foreign exchange. In addition, Frost Bank operates as a correspondent for financial institutions; offers a range of trust, investment, agency, and custodial services for individual and corporate clients; and provides capital markets services, including sales and trading, new issue underwriting, money market trading, and securities safekeeping and clearance. As of December 31, 2008, the bank operated approximately 100 financial centers in the Austin, Corpus Christi, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Rio Grande Valley, and San Antonio regions of Texas. In addition, Cullen/Frost, through its other subsidiaries, provides insurance brokerage services; brokerage services, including the sale and purchase of securities; advisory and private equity services to middle market companies; and loans to qualified borrowers. It serves energy, manufacturing, services, construction, retail, telecommunications, healthcare, military, and transportation industries. The company was founded in 1868 and is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas.

Millicom International Cellular S.A. (NASDAQ: MICC | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) and its subsidiaries provide mobile telephony services in Central and South America, Africa, and Asia. The company offers prepaid services using mass market distribution methods; and broadband Internet, fixed wireless telephony, and public telephony, as well as operates an international gateway, a high-speed data business, and a television station. As of December 31, 2007, it had approximately 23.4 million subscribers and interests in 16 mobile operations in 16 countries. The company was founded in 1968 and is based in Luxembourg, Luxembourg.

M&T Bank Corporation operates as the holding company for M&T Bank and M&T Bank, National Association that provide commercial and retail banking services to individuals, corporations and other businesses, and institutions. It offers business loans and leases; business credit cards; deposit products, including savings deposits, time deposits, negotiable order of withdrawal accounts, and noninterest-bearing deposits; and financial services, such as cash management, payroll and direct deposit, merchant credit card, and letters of credit. The company also provides residential real estate loans; multifamily commercial real estate loans; commercial real estate loans; residential mortgage loans and other assets; investment and trading securities; short-term and long-term borrowed funds; brokered certificates of deposit and interest rate swap agreements related thereto; and offshore branch deposits. In addition, it offers foreign exchange services. Further, M&T Bank Corporation provides consumer loans, and commercial loans and leases; credit life, and accident and health reinsurance; and insurance agency services. As of December 31, 2008, it had 684 banking offices in New York state, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia, as well as a branch in George Town, Cayman Islands. The company was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Buffalo, New York.

Affiliated Managers Group, Inc. (NYSE: AMG), through its affiliates, operates as an asset management company providing investment management services to mutual funds, institutional clients, and high net worth individuals in the United States. It provides advisory or subadvisory services to mutual funds. These funds are distributed to retail and institutional clients directly and through intermediaries, including independent investment advisors, retirement plan sponsors, broker-dealers, major fund marketplaces, and bank trust departments. The company also offers investment products in various investment styles in the institutional distribution channel, including small, small/mid, mid, and large capitalization value and growth equity, and emerging markets. In addition, it offers quantitative, alternative, and fixed income products, and manages assets for foundations and endowments, defined benefit, and defined contribution plans for corporations and municipalities. Affiliated Managers Group provides investment management or customized investment counseling and fiduciary services. The company was formed as a corporation under the laws of Delaware in 1993. Affiliated Managers Group is based in Prides Crossing, Massachusetts.

Lufkin Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: LUFK) and its subsidiaries manufacture and sell oil field pumping units and power transmission products worldwide. It operates in two segments, Oil Field and Power Transmission. The Oil Field segment manufactures and services artificial reciprocating rod lift equipment and related products. It also transports and repairs pumping units; and refurbishes used pumping units. In addition, this segment designs, manufactures, installs, and services computer control equipment and analytical services for pumping units, as well as operates an iron foundry to produce castings for new pumping units. The Power Transmission segment designs, manufactures, and services speed increasing and reducing gearboxes for industrial applications. It also manufactures capital spares for customers in conjunction with the production of new gearboxes, as well as produces parts for after-market service. In addition, this segment provides on and off-site repair and service for its own products, and also those manufactured by other companies. The company operates in the United States, Europe, Canada, Latin America, the Middle East, and North Africa. Lufkin Industries was founded in 1902 and is based in Lufkin, Texas.

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