Volume Leaders: FirstAlert(tm) NYSE-AMEX-NASDAQ Money Index Synopsis

April 27, 2010 (FinancialWire) (Summary of April 26, 2010’s Session) — Of the Most Actives, last session’s trading showed 14 advancers versus 11 decliners. Volume leaders were led by diversified financial services company Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C) trading 160,636,200 shares closing at $4.61 (down 5.1%), followed by the Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF (NYSE: XLF) trading 31,906,189 shares closing at $16.52 (down 1.6%), followed by the SPDRS Trust ETF (AMEX: SPY) trading 26,103,292 shares closing at $121.35 (down 0.4%).

The FirstAlert(tm) Money Index Synopsis is an indicator of the depth of market direction or indirection. While not always including the same stocks, the combined NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ 24 to 25 Most Actives and combined NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ Greatest Percentage Losers and Greatest Percentage Winners (weighted against pure monetary loss/gain) indicate the direction in which the mass of money is flowing, as well as the general focus of the market. View today’s combined NYSE-AMEX-NASDAQ Money Index article via FinancialWire(tm)’s reference section (at http://www.financialwire.net/2010/04/27/fa-index-9/).

Other companies spotlighted in today’s FirstAlert(tm) Money Index include financials/capital markets company Thomas Weisel Partners Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: TWPG), financials/commercial banks company Frontier Financial Corp. (NASDAQ: FTBK), financials/commercial banks company EuroBancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ: EUBK), financials/capital markets company Blackrock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK), Crusader Energy Group, Inc. (AMEX: KRU) and healthcare/life sciences tools & services company Charles River Laboratories International, Inc. (NYSE: CRL), via today’s combined NYSE-AMEX-NASDAQ Money Index (at http://www.financialwire.net/2010/04/27/fa-index-9/).

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