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 2641 companies with "abnormal" market making, 3175 companies with positive Friction Factors and 2041 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top companies with Abnormal Price Friction (bearish bias) in their stock prices. This means that there was more buying than selling in the stocks and their stock prices dropped. WASHINGTON MUTUAL INC (OTC: WAMUQ |
WAMUQ $-0.014 -18.26% 25,666,007 51.82% 23,643,328 47.74% 2,022,679 Abnormal
WASHINGTON MUTUAL INC (OTC:WAMUQ) - Washington Mutual, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a consumer and small business banking company in the United States. It operates in four segments: Retail Banking Group, Card Services Group, Commercial Group, and Home Loans Group. The Retail Banking Group segment offers deposit and other retail banking products and services, which include checking and interest-bearing checking, personal checking, savings, money market deposit, and time deposit accounts to consumers and small businesses; loan products comprising home loans, home equity loans, home equity lines of credit, and mortgage loans; and investment advisory and brokerage services. The Card Services Group segments operations consist of issuing credit cards, holding outstanding balances on credit cards in portfolio or securitizing and selling them, servicing credit card accounts, and providing other cardholder services. The Commercial Group segment provides finance to developers and investors for multi family dwellings and other commercial properties, services multi family and other commercial real estate loans, and provides limited deposit services to commercial customers. The Home Loans Group segment originates, fulfills, and services home loans, and home equity loans and lines of credit; manages capital market operations; and holds the companys held for investment portfolios of home loans, home equity loans, and home equity lines of credit made to higher risk borrowers through the subprime mortgage channel. As of December 31, 2007, the company operated 2,257 retail banking stores and 233 lending stores and centers in 36 states. Washington Mutual, Inc. was founded in 1889 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. On September 26, 2008, Washington Mutual Inc. filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 in the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.
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