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Market Maker Surveillance Report. KIRK, TLB, PMI, USAP, SIHI, GFRE, Losing Stocks With Lowest Price Friction For Friday, May 2

May 20, 2011 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for Friday. Since October 2008 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 Friday there were 2588 companies with "abnormal" market making, 1670 companies with positive Friction Factors and 3274 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top companies with the largest percentage loss per share Friday 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. KIRKLAND'S INC (NASDAQ:KIRK), TALBOTS INC (NYSE:TLB), PMI GROUP INC/THE (NYSE:PMI), UNIVERSAL STAINLESS & ALLOY (NASDAQ:USAP), SINOHUB INC (AMEX:SIHI), GULF RESOURCES INC (NASDAQ:GFRE). 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       Percent      Buy Volume      Buy %%       Sell Volume     Sell %%      Net Volume      Friction
     KIRK       $-1.450      -9.70%       342,932         42.92%       453,385         56.74%       -110,453        -762    
     TLB        $-0.500      -9.96%       2,397,171       28.73%       2,751,744       32.97%       -354,573        -7,091  
     PMI        $-0.180      -11.46%      2,331,504       29.38%       3,461,737       43.63%       -1,130,233      -62,791 
     USAP       $-3.670      -9.81%       66,561          41.05%       85,591          52.78%       -19,030         -52     
     SIHI       $-0.170      -12.88%      85,634          21.25%       130,604         32.40%       -44,970         -2,645  
     GFRE       $-0.480      -12.44%      872,642         45.72%       1,019,607       53.42%       -146,965        -3,062  

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 KIRK with a dollar loss Friday of $-1.45000 and a Friction Factor of -762 shares. That means that it only took 762 more shares of selling than buying to move KIRK 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.

KIRKLAND'S INC (NASDAQ:KIRK) - Kirklands, Inc. operates as a specialty retailer of home decor and gifts in the United States. Its stores offer a range of merchandise, including framed art, mirrors, wall decor, candles and related items, lamps, decorative accessories, accent furniture, textiles, garden-related accessories, and artificial floral products. The company also provides an assortment of holiday merchandise during seasonal periods, as well as items suitable for gift-giving. It operates its stores under the names Kirklands, Kirklands Home, Kirklands Home Outlet, and Kirklands Outlet. The company operates its stores in enclosed malls and various off-mall venues, including lifestyle centers, power strip centers, outlet centers, and freestanding locations. As of January 30, 2010, it operated 279 stores in 29 states. The company was founded in 1966 and is based in Nashville, Tennessee.

TALBOTS INC (NYSE:TLB) - The Talbots, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a specialty retailer and direct marketer of womens apparel, accessories, and shoes in the United States and Canada. It offers classic sportswear, casual wear, dresses, coats, sweaters, accessories, and shoes in misses, petites, woman, and woman petite sizes. The company also markets its products online through its Web site, talbots.com, as well as through catalogs. As of January 30, 2010, it operated 580 stores under the Talbots brand name. The company was founded in 1947 and is headquartered in Hingham, Massachusetts.

PMI GROUP INC/THE (NYSE:PMI) - The PMI Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides residential mortgage insurance products that offer loss protection to mortgage lenders and investors in the event of borrower default in the United States. The company offers mortgage insurance products to meet the capital and credit risk mitigation needs of its customers. Its products include primary mortgage insurance through primary flow channel that provide the insured with first-loss mortgage default protection on individual loans at specified coverage percentages; and mortgage insurance to credit unions through its 50% joint venture interest in CMG Mortgage Insurance Company. The PMI Groups customers primarily include mortgage lenders, depository institutions, commercial banks, and investors. The company was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Walnut Creek, California.

UNIVERSAL STAINLESS & ALLOY (NASDAQ:USAP) - Universal Stainless & Alloy Products Inc. manufactures and markets semifinished and finished specialty steel products, including stainless steel, tool steel, and other alloyed steels in the U.S. The company offers specialty steel products in the form of long products, such as ingots, blooms, billets, and bars; and flat-rolled products comprising slabs and plates. Universal Stainless sells to rerollers, forgers, service centers, original equipment manufacturers, which primarily include the power generation and aerospace industries, and wire redrawers. It also provides conversion services on materials supplied by its customers, as well as produces customized shapes primarily for original equipment manufacturers. Founded in 1994, the company is based in Bridgeville, Pa.

SINOHUB INC (AMEX:SIHI) - SinoHub, Inc. operates as an electronics company that engages in manufacturing and distributing custom design, private-label mobile phones (VCM - Virtual Contract Manufacturing) worldwide. The company also provides electronic component purchasing (ECP) services to manufacturers and design houses in China, as well as supply chain management (SCM) services, offering logistics, warehousing, importing, and distribution services to companies operating in China. SinoHub holds the database of approximately 50,000 different electronic components, in combination with its long term industry relationships. Through its relationships with design houses that were formed through the SCM and ECP businesses, the company gets access to the mobile phone roadmaps from approximately 20 design houses in China, and SinoHub uses this information anonymously in its custom design mobile phone business to provide strategic support to customers, including mobile phone distributors and operators. Its ECP business engages in procurement-fulfillment and spot electronic component sales to manufacturers and design houses. The company offers SinoHub SCM, a proprietary platform based on its Web-based software system that provides order entry, automated price and category checking, order tracking and monitoring, inventory management, payment system, finished orders database, executive dashboard reporting system, shipment tracking, bonded inventory control system, vendor managed inventory, and VAT tracking for recovery on export of finished goods. SinoHub, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Shenzhen, China.

GULF RESOURCES INC (NASDAQ:GFRE) - Gulf Resources, Inc. and its subsidiaries manufacture and trade in bromine and crude salt, as well as manufacture chemical products for use in the oil industry and paper manufacturing industry in the Peoples Republic of China. Its bromine is used in brominated flame retardants, fumigants, water purification compounds, dyes, medicines, and disinfectants. The companys bromine is also used to form intermediates in organic synthesis. Gulf Resources, Inc. also manufactures and sells chemical products, such as hydroxyl guar gums, demulsified agents, corrosion inhibitors for acidizing, bactericides, chelants, iron ion stabilizers, clay stabilizing agents, flocculants agents, remaining agents, and expanding agents with enhanced gentleness, which are used in oil and gas field exploration, oil and gas distribution, oil field drilling, wastewater processing, papermaking chemical agents, and inorganic chemicals. In addition, it engages in the research and development of commonly used chemical products, as well as medicine intermediates. The company is based in Shouguang City, the Peoples Republic of China.

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