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Market Maker Surveillance Report. XRT, MI, WFC, MU, C, XLV, Bearishly Biased Price Friction For Wednesday, January 26th 2011

^{Published on 2011-01-26 17:51:38 - WOPRAI}
 

January 26, 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 2468 companies with "abnormal" market making, 3767 companies with positive Friction Factors and 1641 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top companies with Abnormal Price Friction (bearish bias) in their stock prices. This means that there was more buying than selling in the stocks and their stock prices dropped. SPDR S&P RETAIL ETF (NYSE:XRT), MARSHALL & ILSLEY CORP (NYSE:MI), WELLS FARGO & CO (NYSE:WFC), MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC (NASDAQ:MU), CITIGROUP INC (NYSE:C), HEALTH CARE SELECT SECTOR (NYSE:XLV). 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
     XRT        $-0.080      -0.17%       5,420,197       60.63%       4,081,080       45.65%       1,339,117       Abnormal
     MI         $-0.120      -1.67%       7,624,835       51.30%       6,425,865       43.24%       1,198,970       Abnormal
     WFC        $-0.290      -0.89%       11,797,302      45.84%       10,295,292      40.00%       1,502,010       Abnormal
     MU         $-0.010      -0.05%       19,798,423      52.41%       17,980,332      47.59%       1,818,091       Abnormal
     C          $-0.020      -0.41%       230,494,978     52.87%       190,371,391     43.66%       40,123,587      Abnormal
     XLV        $-0.040      -0.12%       4,548,140       59.29%       3,239,465       42.23%       1,308,675       Abnormal

Analysis of the Friction Factor chart above shows that each of the six stocks mentioned above had more buying than selling on Wednesday and their stock prices dropped. 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 XLV with 1,308,675 greater shares of buying than selling (NetVol) and the stock price was down $-0.04000. This means the Market Makers were trading the stock in a way inconsistent with normal supply and demand (Economics 101); more buying than selling should cause prices to rise.

SPDR S&P RETAIL ETF (NYSE:XRT) - SPDR RETAIL ETF

MARSHALL & ILSLEY CORP (NYSE:MI) - Marshall & Ilsley Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides diversified financial services to corporate, institutional, government, and individual customers in the United States. Its Commercial Banking segment provides various products and services, including secured and unsecured loans and lines of credit, letters of credit, asset-based lending, equipment financing, mezzanine financing, global trade services, treasury management, demand deposit accounts, interest bearing accounts, and time deposits, as well as construction loans for commercial and residential development, and land acquisition and development loans. The companys Community Banking segment provides consumer and business banking products and services comprising loan and deposit products, such as mortgages, home equity loans and lines, credit cards, student loans, personal lines of credit and term loans, demand deposit accounts, interest bearing transaction accounts, and time deposits, as well as loans for working capital, inventory, and general corporate use; commercial real estate construction loans; and agricultural loans. Its Wealth Management segment provides asset management, trust, and banking services, as well as offers retirement plan services, Taft-Hartley services, not-for-profit services, north star deferred exchange, and trust operations outsourcing services. The company also provides derivative solutions and investment services, currency conversion and foreign exchange services, and risk management to corporate, business banking, and financial institution clients. As of December 31, 2009, it operated 162 branch offices in Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona metropolitan areas, Kansas City and nearby communities, Floridas west coast and Orlando, Florida, Minneapolis/St. Paul and Duluth, Minnesota, and central Indiana; and 17 offices in the St. Louis metropolitan area. The company was founded in 1847 and is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

WELLS FARGO & CO (NYSE:WFC) - Wells Fargo & Company, through its subsidiaries, provides retail, commercial, and corporate banking services principally in the United States. The company operates through three segments: Community Banking; Wholesale Banking; and Wealth, Brokerage, and Retirement. The Community Banking segment offers deposit products, including checking accounts, savings deposits, market rate accounts, individual retirement accounts, time deposits, and debit cards. Its loan products include lines of credit, equity lines and loans, equipment and transportation loans, education loans, residential mortgage loans, and credit cards. This segment also provides receivables and inventory financing, equipment leases, real estate financing, small business administration financing, venture capital financing, cash management, payroll services, retirement plans, and merchant payment processing services; consumer and real estate loans to individuals; and loans secured by autos, as well as purchases sales finance contracts from retail merchants. The Wholesale Banking segment provides commercial and corporate banking products and services, including commercial loans and lines of credit, letters of credit, asset-based lending, equipment leasing, mezzanine financing, high-yield debt, foreign exchange services, treasury management, investment management, institutional fixed-income sales, commodity and equity risk management, insurance, corporate trust fiduciary and agency services, and investment banking services. This segment also provides banking products for commercial real estate market, and mortgage brokerage services. The Wealth, Brokerage, and Retirement segment offers financial advisory, lending, fiduciary, and investment management services. As of December 31, 2009, Wells Fargo & Company provided its services through approximately 10,000 banking stores located in 39 states and the District of Columbia. The company was founded in 1929 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC (NASDAQ:MU) - Micron Technology, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and marketing of semiconductor devices worldwide. Its products include dynamic random access memory (DRAM) products that provide data storage and retrieval, which include DDR, DDR2, DDR3, and other specialty DRAM memory products, such as SDRAM, mobile DRAM, pseudo-static RAM, and reduced latency DRAM. The company also offers NAND flash memory products, which are electrically re-writeable and non-volatile semiconductor devices that retain content when power is turned off. Micron Technologys products are used in a range of electronic applications, including personal computers, workstations, network servers, mobile phones, flash memory cards, USB storage devices, digital still cameras, MP3/4 players, and in automotive applications. It sells its products to original equipment manufacturers and retailers through internal sales force, independent sales representatives, and distributors, as well as Web-based customer direct sales channel. Micron Technology, Inc. has joint ventures with Intel Corporation, Singapore Economic Development Board, Canon Inc., and Hewlett-Packard Company, Nanya Technology Corporation, and Photronics, Inc. The company was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Boise, Idaho.

CITIGROUP INC (NYSE:C) - Citigroup, Inc., a global financial services company, provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a range of financial products and services, including consumer banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, and wealth management. The company has two primary segments, Citicorp and Citi Holdings. The Citicorp segment operates as a global bank for businesses and consumers with two primary businesses, Regional Consumer Banking and Institutional Clients Group. The Regional Consumer Banking business provides traditional banking services, including retail banking, branded cards, and small commercial banking in North America, Asia, Latin America, and Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The Institutional Clients Group business provides securities and banking services, including investment banking and advisory services, lending, debt and equity sales and trading, institutional brokerage, foreign exchange, structured products, cash instruments and related derivatives, and private banking; and transaction services consisting of treasury and trade solutions, and securities and fund services. The Citi Holdings segment has three businesses: Brokerage and Asset Management, Local Consumer Lending, and Special Asset Pool. The Brokerage and Asset Management business, through its 49% stake in Morgan Stanley Smith Barney joint venture and Nikko Cordial Securities, offers retail brokerage and asset management services. The Local Consumer Lending business provides residential mortgage loans, retail partner card loans, student loans, personal loans, auto loans, commercial real estate, and other consumer loans, as well as western European cards and retail banking services. The Special Asset Pool business is a portfolio of securities, loans, and other assets. Citigroup Inc. has approximately 200 million customer accounts and operates in approximately 140 countries. The company was founded in 1812 and is based in New York, New York.

HEALTH CARE SELECT SECTOR (NYSE:XLV) - Health Care Select

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