MatlinPatterson Global Sells $3M Worth of Huntsman

• ByJonathan Moreland, RealMoney Contributor
• On 9:55 am EDT, Monday October 12, 2009

Editor's note: Only seven records on buy table due to the slow filing period.

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Which insiders are selling and buying chunks of stocks?

Below are lists of the top 10 open-market insider purchases and sales filed at the Securities and Exchange Commission Friday as ranked by dollar value. Company executives and directors are in the best position to assess the attractiveness of their firms' shares, and here is how many of them are voting their wallets! Please note, however, that these are factual lists, not buy and sell recommendations. Dollar value is only one metric to assess the importance of an insider transaction.

CSMG Technologies (CTGI) Robbins Donald S Sr CEO,PR, DIR,BO 3,000,000 $300,000 Mint Leasing (MLES) Parish Jerry CEO,PR, DIR,SEC, BO 8,278,872 $299,695 Urstadt Biddle Properties (UBP) Urstadt Charles J CB,CEO, DIR,BO 7,300 $104,201 Mistras Group (MG) Stamatakis Manuel N DIR 6,000 $75,000 Mistras Group (MG) Peterik Paul CFO 2,000 $25,000 Calamos Convertible Opp & Inc Fund (CHI) Bank Of America Corp De BO 200 $2,290 Suffolk Bancorp (SUBK) Kandell David A DIR 43 $1,244

IAC/ Interactivecorp (IACI) Liberty Media Corp BO 416,200 $8,008,864 Huntsman (HUN) MatlinPatterson Global Opp Partners BO 348,161 $3,044,216 Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation BO 720 $2,378,439 Morningstar (MORN) Phillips Donald James II MD 24,800 $1,261,841 Boston Scientific (BSX) Nicholas Peter M DIR 100,000 $1,003,390 Liberty Global (LBTYA) (LBTYK) Ramos Mauricio PR 41,313 $908,886 Compellent Technologies (CML) Aszmann Lawrence E CTO 40,625 $783,250 Loopnet (LOOP) Boyle Richard J Jr CEO,DIR 75,278 $752,863 Hittite Microwave (HITT) Ayasli Yalcin BO 18,000 $660,500 Microsoft (MSFT) Bach Robert PR 25,000 $637,500

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