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Market Maker Surveillance Report. XSRAY, LDK, QTM, CRBC, LVLT, EWA, Bearishly Biased Price Friction For Thursday, January 27th

^{Published on 2011-01-27 17:51:31 - WOPRAI}
 

January 27, 2011 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for Thursday. 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 Thursday there were 2719 companies with "abnormal" market making, 2652 companies with positive Friction Factors and 2364 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. XSTRATA PLC-UNSPONS ADR (OTC:XSRAY), LDK SOLAR CO LTD -ADR (NYSE:LDK), QUANTUM CORP (NYSE:QTM), CITIZENS REPUBLIC BANCORP IN (NASDAQ:CRBC), LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS INC (NASDAQ:LVLT), ISHARES MSCI AUSTRALIA INDEX (NYSE:EWA). 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
     XSRAY      $-0.080      -1.79%       4,522,854       95.59%       170,074         3.59%        4,352,780       Abnormal
     LDK        $-0.120      -0.92%       9,395,726       49.84%       8,175,511       43.36%       1,220,215       Abnormal
     QTM        $-0.570      -15.88%      15,701,423      50.94%       12,571,109      40.78%       3,130,314       Abnormal
     CRBC       $-0.050      -7.60%       3,327,637       59.12%       2,301,045       40.88%       1,026,592       Abnormal
     LVLT       $-0.010      -0.79%       7,580,004       56.00%       5,953,515       43.99%       1,626,489       Abnormal
     EWA        $-0.130      -0.52%       3,345,381       58.34%       1,989,177       34.69%       1,356,204       Abnormal

Analysis of the Friction Factor chart above shows that each of the six stocks mentioned above had more buying than selling on Thursday 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 EWA with 1,356,204 greater shares of buying than selling (NetVol) and the stock price was down $-0.13000. 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.

XSTRATA PLC-UNSPONS ADR (OTC:XSRAY) - Xstrata plc operates as a diversified metals and mining company in Switzerland and internationally. It primarily explores for copper, coking coal, thermal coal, ferrochrome, nickel, vanadium, and zinc metals, as well as platinum group metals, gold, cobalt, lead, and silver deposits. The companys operations and projects span in various countries, including Canada, the United States, the Dominican Republic, Spain, Norway, Germany, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Tanzania, Australia, the Philippines, New Caledonia, and Papua New Guinea. It also develops, markets, and supports technologies for the mining, mineral processing, and metals extraction industries; and provides supports services for commodity business, as well as manages an 'Engineer in Training' program. The company was formerly known as Sudelektra AG and changed its name to Xstrata plc in 1999. Xstrata plc was founded in 1926 and is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland.

LDK SOLAR CO LTD -ADR (NYSE:LDK) - LDK Solar Co., Ltd., through its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of multicrystalline solar wafers to the manufacturers of solar cells and solar modules in the Peoples Republic of China and internationally. The company offers multicrystalline solar wafers between 180 and 220 microns in thickness. It also provides wafer processing services to monocrystalline and multicrystalline solar cell and module manufacturers. In addition, the company manufactures polysilicon materials, which include ingots and polysilicon scraps. It has a joint venture agreement with Q-Cells SE to develop solar power generation systems. The company also has a partnership with Uni Land S.p.A. to develop and construct PV plants totaling 20 megawatts; and with Global Power Resources Ltd. to develop and construct PV plants totaling 100 megawatts. LDK Solar Co., Ltd. was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Xinyu city, the Peoples Republic of China. The company operates as a subsidiary of LDK New Energy Holding Limited.

QUANTUM CORP (NYSE:QTM) - Quantum Corporation operates as a storage company that provides backup, recovery, and archive solutions. The company offers a range of disk, tape, and software solutions for information technology departments in various organizations to protect, retain, and access their digital assets. Its products include tape automation systems, such as autoloaders and entry-level, and mid-range and enterprise libraries; disk-based backup appliances, and virtual tape library for mid-range enterprises; and data management software designed for open system computing environments. The company also provides device and media products, such as removable disk devices, and a range of tape drives and media representing various tape technology formats, including LTO, DLT, and DAT/DDS. It sells its products through value added resellers, direct marketing resellers, branded channels, distributors, and original equipment manufacturers primarily to small businesses, government agencies, and multinational corporations. The company was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

CITIZENS REPUBLIC BANCORP IN (NASDAQ:CRBC) - Citizens Republic Bancorp, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Citizens Bank and F&M BankIowa, which provide banking and financial services to individuals and businesses in Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Iowa, and Indiana. The company operates in four divisions: Regional Banking, Specialty Consumer, Specialty Commercial, and Wealth Management. The Regional Banking division provides a range of lending, depository, and other related financial services to businesses and individual consumers. This division offers direct loans; home equity loans and lines of credit; checking, savings, and money market accounts; certificates of deposit; and fixed and variable annuities, as well as private banking services. The Specialty Consumer division provides marine and recreational vehicle loans to consumers. The Specialty Commercial division provides lending, depository, and related financial services to commercial real estate developers, owners of multi-unit commercial properties, middle-market companies, and local governments and municipalities. It offers commercial mortgages, real estate construction lending, term loans, revolving credit arrangements, inventory and accounts receivable financing, and letters of credit; and noncredit services, including deposit accounts, treasury management, corporate cash management, international banking services, advice and assistance in the placement of securities, and financial planning. The Wealth Management division offers asset management, financial planning, estate settlement and administration, and credit and deposit products and services, as well as trust and investment services. This division also offers retail mutual funds and other securities, variable and fixed annuities, personal disability and life insurance products, and brokerage services. As of December 31, 2009, the company operated 229 offices and 267 ATM locations. Citizens Republic Bancorp, Inc. was founded in 1871 and is based in Flint, Michigan.

LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS INC (NASDAQ:LVLT) - Level 3 Communications, Inc. engages in the communications business in North America and Europe. It offers network and Internet services, including transport services, high speed Internet protocol services, dedicated Internet access, virtual private network services, and dark fiber services, as well as managed modem, an outsourced, turn-key infrastructure solution; and colocation services. The company also provides various media services, comprising Vyvx services that provide audio and video feeds over fiber or satellite; content delivery network services; media delivery services to customers seeking to manage, protect, and monetize content delivered over the Internet; a range of local and long distance voice services, such as voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) and traditional circuit-switch based services; and VoIP Enhanced Local, a VoIP service that enables broadband cable operators, IXCs, VoIP providers, and other companies operating their own switching infrastructure to launch IP-based local and long-distance voice services through a broadband connection. Level 3 Communications media services also consist of SIP Trunking, a VoIP-based local phone service; Local Inbound service that terminates traditional telephone network originated calls to Internet Protocol termination points; Primary Rate Interface, a TDM local phone service that could be configured in various ways; Long Distance services portfolio comprising local and long distance transport and termination services; and Toll Free services portfolio, which terminate toll free calls that are originated on the traditional telephone network. As of December 31, 2009, its network encompassed approximately 67,000 intercity route miles in North America and an intercity network covering approximately 12,000 miles across Europe. Further, it sells coal primarily through long-term contracts with public utilities. The company was founded in 1884 and is headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado.

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