July 30, 2009 (FinancialWire) — Of the Most Actives, last session’s trading showed 11 advancers versus 14 decliners. Volume leaders were led by Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C) trading 228,735,800 shares closing at $3.22 (up 8.4%), the PowerShares QQQ Trust Series 1 (NASDAQ: QQQQ) trading 40,695,419 shares closing at $39.34 (down 0.3%) and Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) trading 39,682,400 shares closing at $13.52 (up 1.3%).

Of last session’s Greatest Percentage Losers, stocks taking the greatest monetary losses were led by Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) trading on volume of 21,222,700 shares (losing $1,498.1 million), Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (NYSE: RCL) trading on volume of 2,954,100 shares (losing $523.4 million) and New York Community Bancorp Inc. (NYSE: NYB) trading on volume of 5,014,500 shares (losing $477.8 million).

Of last session’s Greatest Percentage Winners, stocks making the greatest monetary gains were led by Elron Electronic Industries Ltd. (NASDAQ: ELRN) trading on volume of 902,419 shares (gaining $61.4 million), Park-Ohio Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: PKOH) trading on volume of 43,500 shares (gaining $13.3 million) and ZIOPHARM Oncology, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZIOP) trading on volume of 57,673 shares (gaining $10.3 million).

The statistical source for deriving each day’s The FirstAlert(tm) Money Index is StockSmart.com (http://www.stocksmart.com/ri/mostactive.staticdoc).

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