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Contest Stocks: FMT "Homes In" As Best Performer

Here's our latest contest "stock report." Mortgage finance company FMT is back in the news--as a best performer, thought it's been gone for a while as one of the most widely held, it's in the most active list. And GIGM turned into a negative play with news the company sees slower growth ahead. Here you go:


Best performing grades by % gain from Monday's close to Tuesday's close:
Fremont General Financial Services--up 40.65% on news that they agreed to sell its commercial-real estate lending business.
MGM Mirage Travel & Leisure--up 27.05% after Kerkorian's Tracinda wants to buy Bellagio & City Center.
Corus Bankshares--up 12.38%.
Spansion--up 9.67% on news that Intel & STMicroelectronics to form company to become top supplier of NOR flash memory-chips which Spansion produces.
Monro Muffler Brake--up 9.21% on strong earnings.

Worst performing trades by % loss from Monday's close to Tuesday's close close:
United Natural Foods Retail--down 10.60% as earnings missed expectations.
Global Sources--down 8.66%.
Home Inns--down 8.42% as the Shanghai economy hotel chain reported earnings.
D&S--down7.56% as Chilean companies fell on pension fund changes and profit taking.
GigaMedia Ltd--down 6.83% as the Taiwanese company warned that Q2 revenue growth would slow.
Black Box Industrial Goods & Services $35.65 $38.20 -6.68
Blackboard--down 6.45%.
Sasol Ltd--down 6.28%.
Neurochem down 5.67%.
Tele Chile--down 5.30% as Chilean companies fell on pension fund changes and profit taking.

The Most Active and Widely Helds for our Million Dollar Top 20 and our Second Chance Finalists:

Most active        Volume
REV                  75,619,245
CMGI                72,710,383
CNXT                69,000,024
KRY                  51,769,661
CHTR                45,904,851
SIRI                 41,318,976
FMT                 40,230,023
GTW                36,891,226
VG                   23,209,483
GIGM                22,428,515

Widely held         Shares  
CMGI               410,945,149
REV                 390,246,889
CNXT               292,847,756
KRY                 264,117,327
SIRI                 219,810,338
GTW                186,503,642


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