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BUYINS.NET: AXR, CT, EXM, MNT, SSD, USS Have Been Added To Naked Short List Today

Friday, December 28, 2007; Posted: 09:14 AM

Dec 28, 2007 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- USS | charts | news | PowerRating -- BUYINS.NET, www.buyins.net, announced today that these select companies have been added to the NASDAQ, AMEX and NYSE naked short threshold list: AMREP Corp. (NYSE: AXR), Capital Trust Inc. (NYSE: CT), Excel Maritime Carriers Ltd. (NYSE: EXM), Mentor Corp. (NYSE: MNT), Simpson Manufacturing Co. Inc. (NYSE: SSD), U.S. Shipping Partners L.P. (NYSE: USS). For a complete list of companies on the naked short list please visit our web site. To find the SqueezeTrigger Price before a short squeeze starts in any stock, go to www.buyins.net.

AMREP Corp. (NYSE: AXR | charts | news | PowerRating) together with its subsidiaries, engages in real estate, fulfillment services, and magazine distribution businesses. The company sells developed and undeveloped lots to national, regional, and local homebuilders, and commercial and industrial property developers in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. As of April 30, 2007, the company owned approximately 17,550 acres in Rio Rancho platted into home site and commercial lots. The company also owns two tracts of land in Colorado consisting of one residential property of approximately 160 acres, and one property of approximately 10 acres zoned for commercial use. In addition, it leases a 29,000 square foot commercial rental property in Rio Rancho. AMREP provides fulfillment and related services for publishers and other customers, as well as distributes periodicals nationally and internationally. Its fulfillment and related services include magazine subscription fulfillment services, lettershop and graphic art services, customer telephone support, list services, and product fulfillment services. The company's newsstand distribution services include the distribution and sale of periodicals to wholesalers. It distributes various magazines, including automotive, puzzle, men's sophisticates, comics, romance, and sports. The company was founded in 1955 and is based in Princeton, New Jersey. With 6.65 million shares outstanding and 809,000 shares declared short as of November 2007, there is a failure to deliver in shares of AXR.

Capital Trust Inc. (NYSE: CT | charts | news | PowerRating) operates as a real estate investment trust in the United States. It specializes in originating and managing credit sensitive structured financial products. The company makes investments for its own account, as well as manages a series of private equity funds on behalf of institutional and individual investors. Its investment program focuses on structured commercial real estate debt investments, including B Notes, subordinate CMBS, corporate mezzanine loans, first mortgage loans, and property mezzanine loans. The company also finances single properties, multiple property portfolios, and operating companies. It has elected to be taxed as a real estate investment trust and would not be subject to federal income tax, if it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income to its shareholders. The company was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in New York, New York. With 17.51 million shares outstanding and 3.91 million shares declared short as of November 2007, there is a failure to deliver in shares of CT.

Excel Maritime Carriers Ltd. (NYSE: EXM | charts | news | PowerRating) engages in the ownership and operation of dry bulk carriers, and in the provision of seaborne transportation services for dry bulk cargoes, such as iron ore, coal and grains, bauxite, fertilizers, and steel products worldwide. As of June 26, 2007, the company's fleet consisted of 16 vessels comprising 10 Panamax and 6 Handymax vessels with a total carrying capacity of 965,249 deadweight tonnage. Excel Maritime Carriers was founded in 1988 and is based in Athens, Greece. With 19.95 million shares outstanding and 677,400 shares declared short as of November 2007, there is a failure to deliver in shares of EXM.

Mentor Corp. (NYSE: MNT | charts | news | PowerRating) engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of various products serving the aesthetic medicine market. Its products comprise breast implants, including saline-filled implants and silicone gel-filled implants for plastic and reconstructive surgery; capital equipment and consumables used for soft tissue aspiration or body contouring; breast reconstruction products; extremity tissue expanders; and facial rejuvenation products, which consist of dermal filler products and cosmeceutical products for skin restoration. The company also offers software, consulting, and business management tools for plastic surgeons. Mentor Corporation operates in the United States, Canada, western Europe, Central and South America, and the Pacific Rim. The company was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California. With 33.94 million shares outstanding and 6.25 million shares declared short as of November 2007, there is a failure to deliver in shares of MNT.

Simpson Manufacturing Co. Inc. (NYSE: SSD | charts | news | PowerRating) through its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and marketing of building products. It designs, engineers, and manufactures wood-to-wood, wood-to-concrete, wood-to-masonry connectors, screw fastening systems and collated screws, and prefabricated shearwalls; and venting systems for gas, wood, oil, pellet, and other alternative fuel burning appliances. The company also offers adhesives, mechanical anchors, carbide drill bits, and powder actuated tools for concrete, masonry, and steel. It markets its products to the residential construction, light industrial and commercial construction, remodeling, and do-it-yourself markets in the United States, Europe, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, and other countries in Central America and South America. The company distributes its products through its sales force and wholesale distributors. Simpson Manufacturing was founded in 1956 and is based in Pleasanton, California. With 48.53 million shares outstanding and 7.07 million shares declared short as of November 2007, there is a failure to deliver in shares of SSD.

U.S. Shipping Partners L.P. (NYSE: USS | charts | news | PowerRating) provides long-haul marine transportation services to oil and gas companies, primarily for refined petroleum products in the United States. It also engages in the coastwise transportation of petrochemical and commodity chemical products. As of December 31, 2006, the company's fleet consisted of 10 tank vessels, including 6 integrated tug barge units (ITBs), 1 product tanker, and 3 chemical parcel tankers. The company's tank vessels transport refined petroleum products, such as gasoline, jet fuel, diesel fuel, and feedstocks from refineries to terminals and facilities engaged in further processing. Its ITBs primarily transport clean refined petroleum products, such as gasoline, diesel fuel, heating oil, jet fuel, and lubricants from refineries and storage facilities to various destinations, including other refineries and distribution terminals. The company's product tanker carries petroleum products; and parcel tankers transport specialty refined petroleum, petrochemical, and commodity chemical products, such as lubricants, paraxylene, caustic soda, and glycols from refineries and petrochemical manufacturing facilities to other manufacturing facilities and distribution terminals. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Edison, New Jersey. With 11.34 million shares outstanding and 274,800 shares declared short as of November 2007, there is a failure to deliver in shares of USS.

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