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Market Maker Surveillance Report. HPQ, MRK, AMAT, CMCSA, WTSLA, FXI, Bullishly Biased Price Friction For Wednesday, January 19

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January 19, 2011 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for Wednesday. Since October 2008 market makers are now required to be on the bid as much as they are on the offer and for like amounts of stock. This Fair Market Making Requirement is designed to prevent market makers from manipulating stock prices. On Wednesday there were 2198 companies with "abnormal" market making, 1279 companies with positive Friction Factors and 4399 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top companies with Abnormal Price Friction (bullish bias) in their stock prices. This means that there was more selling than buying in the stocks and their stock prices rose. HEWLETT-PACKARD CO (NYSE:HPQ), MERCK & CO. INC. (NYSE:MRK), APPLIED MATERIALS INC (NASDAQ:AMAT), COMCAST CORP-CLASS A (NASDAQ:CMCSA), WET SEAL INC/THE-CLASS A (NASDAQ:WTSLA), ISHARES FTSE/XINHUA CHINA 25 (NYSE:FXI). To access Friction Factor, Naked Short Data and SqueezeTrigger Prices on all stocks please visit http://www.buyins.net .

Market Maker Friction Factor is shown in the chart below:

     Symbol     Change       Percent      Buy Volume      Buy %%       Sell Volume     Sell %%      Net Volume      Friction
     HPQ        $0.060       0.13%        6,287,263       38.49%       7,919,868       48.48%       -1,632,605      Abnormal
     MRK        $0.050       0.13%        11,181,321      38.06%       15,312,570      52.12%       -4,131,249      Abnormal
     AMAT       $0.050       0.33%        12,566,134      46.24%       14,538,796      53.50%       -1,972,662      Abnormal
     CMCSA      $0.370       1.62%        15,573,767      44.92%       18,524,910      53.44%       -2,951,143      Abnormal
     WTSLA      $0.050       1.44%        655,071         19.98%       2,623,054       80.02%       -1,967,983      Abnormal
     FXI        $0.130       0.29%        7,986,008       44.02%       10,155,692      55.98%       -2,169,684      Abnormal

Analysis of the Friction Factor chart above shows that each of the six stocks mentioned above had more selling than buying on Wednesday and their stock prices rose. The Friction Factor displays how many more shares of buying than selling are required to move a stock higher by one cent or how many more shares of selling than buying moves a stock lower by 1 cent.

For example, the chart above shows FXI with 2,169,684 greater shares of selling than buying (NetVol) and the stock price was up $0.13000. This means the Market Makers were trading the stock in a way inconsistent with normal supply and demand (Economics 101); more selling than buying should cause prices to drop.

HEWLETT-PACKARD CO (NYSE:HPQ) - Hewlett-Packard Company offers various products, technologies, software, solutions, and services worldwide. The companys Services segment provides consulting, outsourcing, and technology services to infrastructure, applications, and business process domains. It serves manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, communications, energy, transportation, and consumer and retail industries, as well as governments. Its Enterprise Storage and Servers segment offers storage and server products and solutions for industry standard servers, business critical systems, and storage works offerings. The companys HP Software segment provides enterprise IT management solutions, information management and business intelligence solutions, and communications and media solutions. Its Personal Systems Group segment offers personal computers (PCs) comprising commercial PCs, consumer PCs, workstations, handheld computing devices, calculators, and other related accessories, and software and services for the commercial and consumer markets. The companys Imaging and Printing Group segment provides consumer and commercial printer hardware, printing supplies, printing media, and scanning devices, such as inkjet and Web solutions, laserjet and enterprise solutions, managed enterprise solutions, graphics solutions, and printer supplies. Its HP Financial Services segment offers leasing, financing, utility programs, and asset recovery services; and financial asset management services for enterprise customers, as well as specialized financial services to SMBs, and educational and governmental entities. The company also provides various network infrastructure products, including Ethernet switch products that enhance computing and enterprise solutions under the brand name of ProCurve Networking. Hewlett-Packard Company was founded in 1939 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

MERCK & CO. INC. (NYSE:MRK) - Merck & Co., Inc., a global health care company, discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets medicines, vaccines, biologic therapies, and consumer and animal products. The companys Pharmaceutical segment provides human health pharmaceutical products, such as therapeutic and preventive agents for the treatment of human disorders in the areas of bone, respiratory, immunology, dermatology, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and obesity, infectious diseases, hypertension and/or heart failure, urology, bronchospasm, neurosciences and ophthalmology, oncology, and womens health; and human health vaccines, including preventative pediatric, adolescent, and adult vaccines against measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella. Merck & Co.s Animal Health segment offers antibiotics, anti-inflammatory products, vaccines, products for the treatment of fertility disorders, and parasiticides for cattle, swine, horses, poultry, dogs, cats, salmons, and fishes. The companys Consumer Health Care segment provides over-the-counter products, including antihistamines, products for constipation, cold/flu medicines, nasal decongestant sprays, and laxative tablets; foot care products, which comprise topical antifungal products, and foot and sneaker odor/wetness products; and sun care products, such as sun care lotions, sprays, dry oils, and lip-protection products, as well as sunless tanning and sunburn relief products. It sells consumer health care products through wholesale and retail drug, food chain, and mass merchandiser outlets in the United States and Canada. The company serves drug wholesalers and retailers, hospitals, government agencies, physicians, physician distributors, veterinarians, and animal producers, as well as managed health care providers, such as health maintenance organizations, pharmacy benefit managers, and other institutions. Merck & Co., Inc. was founded in 1891 and is headquartered in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey.

APPLIED MATERIALS INC (NASDAQ:AMAT) - Applied Materials, Inc. provides nanomanufacturing technology solutions for the semiconductor, flat panel display, solar, and related industries worldwide. Its Silicon segment provides a range of manufacturing equipment used to fabricate semiconductor chips or integrated circuits. It offers systems that perform primary processes used in chip fabrication, including atomic layer deposition, chemical vapor deposition, physical vapor deposition, etch, rapid thermal processing, chemical mechanical planarization, and wafer metrology and inspection, as well as systems that etch, measure, and inspect circuit patterns on masks used in the photolithography process. The companys Applied Global Services segment offers products and services designed to improve the performance and productivity, and reduce the environmental impact of the fab operations of semiconductor, LCD, and solar photovoltaics manufacturers. Its Display segment provides equipment to fabricate thin film transistor LCDs for televisions, computer displays, and other consumer-oriented electronic applications. The companys Energy and Environmental Solutions segment offers manufacturing solutions for the generation and conservation of energy. It also provides manufacturing solutions for wafer-based crystalline silicon, and glass-based thin film applications to enable customers to increase the conversion efficiency and yields of solar PV devices. In addition, this segment offers roll-to-roll vacuum Web coating systems for deposition of a range of films on flexible substrates for functional, aesthetic, or optical properties, as well as large-area deposition equipment for the production of low-emissivity and solar control architectural glass. The company serves manufacturers of semiconductor wafers and chips, flat panel liquid crystal displays, solar photovoltaic cells and modules, and other electronic devices. Applied Materials, Inc. was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

COMCAST CORP-CLASS A (NASDAQ:CMCSA) - Comcast Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides consumer entertainment, information, and communication products and services to the residential and commercial customers in the United States. The company operates in two segments, Cable and Programming. The Cable segment manages and operates cable systems, including video, high-speed Internet, and phone services, as well as regional sports and news networks. Its video services include analog, digital, on demand, and high-definition television and/or digital video recorders. This segments high-speed Internet service consists of an interactive portal, Comcast.net, which provides multiple email addresses and online storage, as well as various proprietary content, and value-added features and enhancements. Its phone services include voice over Internet protocol digital phone service that provides local and domestic long-distance calling with various features, such as voice mail, caller ID, and call waiting services. The Programming segment operates national programming networks consisting of E!, The Golf Channel, VERSUS, G4, and Style. The company also develops and operates Internet businesses focused on entertainment, information, and communication, including Comcast.net, Fancast, thePlatform, Fandango, Plaxo, and DailyCandy; and owns two professional sports teams and a multipurpose arena, as well as provides facilities management services, including food services, for sporting events, concerts, and other events. As of December 31, 2009, Comcast Corporation served approximately 23.6 million video customers, 15.9 million high-speed Internet customers, and 7.6 million phone customers, as well as approximately 50.6 million homes in 39 states and the District of Columbia. The company was founded in 1969 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

WET SEAL INC/THE-CLASS A (NASDAQ:WTSLA) - The Wet Seal, Inc., a specialty retailer, operates stores that sell fashionable and contemporary apparel and accessory items designed for female customers. The company operates two primarily mall-based chains of retail stores under the Wet Seal and Arden B names. Its Wet Seal stores provide fashionable and basic apparel, and accessories for teenage girls; and Arden B stores offer contemporary collections of fashion, basic separates, and accessories for the feminine contemporary woman. In addition, the company operates Web-based stores, including wetseal.com that provides Wet Seal merchandise; and ardenb.com, which offers Arden B apparel and accessories. As of May 1, 2010, it had 501 stores, including 422 Wet Seal stores and 79 Arden B stores in 47 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. The company was founded in 1962 and is based in Foothill Ranch, California.

ISHARES FTSE/XINHUA CHINA 25 (NYSE:FXI) - ISHARES TR FTSE I

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