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Market Maker Surveillance Report. FXI, C, BAC, MU, EMC, EWJ, Highest Net Buy Volume With Lowest Price Friction For Monday, Feb


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February 14, 2011 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for Monday. 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 Monday there were 2551 companies with "abnormal" market making, 2783 companies with positive Friction Factors and 2384 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top companies with the highest net buy volume on Monday and lowest price Friction (bullish). This means that there was more buying than selling in the stocks and their stock prices rose faster with less Friction. ISHARES FTSE/XINHUA CHINA 25 (NYSE:FXI), CITIGROUP INC (NYSE:C), BANK OF AMERICA CORP (NYSE:BAC), MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC (NASDAQ:MU), EMC CORP/MASS (NYSE:EMC), ISHARES MSCI JAPAN INDEX FD (NYSE:EWJ). 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
     FXI        $0.150       0.36%        9,231,360       67.52%       5,472,754       40.03%       3,758,606       250,574 
     C          $0.030       0.61%        176,547,651     50.44%       165,605,837     47.31%       10,941,814      3,647,271
     BAC        $0.100       0.68%        51,912,207      46.73%       47,939,859      43.15%       3,972,348       397,235 
     MU         $0.340       2.99%        35,255,478      52.75%       31,425,187      47.02%       3,830,291       112,656 
     EMC        $0.230       0.85%        13,647,931      55.42%       8,878,192       36.05%       4,769,739       207,380 
     EWJ        $0.110       0.93%        14,513,412      60.15%       10,391,167      43.06%       4,122,245       374,750 

Analysis of the Friction Factor chart above shows that each of the six stocks mentioned above have high net dollar gains (Change) and very low price friction in their stocks. 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 EWJ with a Net Buy Volume of 4,122,245 shares and a Friction Factor of 374,750 shares. That means that it takes 374,750 more shares of buying than selling to move EWJ higher by one penny. This means the Market Makers are allowing the stock to move up higher as of Monday (lower friction). And with one of the highest Net Buy Volumes, the combination of low friction and high net buy volume is bullish.

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

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.

BANK OF AMERICA CORP (NYSE:BAC) - Bank of America Corporation, a financial holding company, provides banking and nonbanking financial services and products to individual consumers, small- and middle-market businesses, large corporations, and governments in the United States and internationally. The companys Deposits segment generates savings accounts, money market savings accounts, certificate of deposits, individual retirement accounts, and checking accounts; and Global Card Services segment provides the U.S. consumer and business card, consumer lending, international card and debit card services. Its Home Loans & Insurance segment offers consumer real estate products and services, including mortgage loans, reverse mortgages, home equity lines of credit, and home equity loans. It also provides property, casualty, life, disability, and credit insurance. The companys Global Banking segment offers lending products, including commercial loans and commitment facilities, real estate lending, leasing, trade finance, short-term credit, asset-based lending, and indirect consumer loans; capital management and treasury solutions, such as treasury management, foreign exchange, and short-term investing options; and investment banking services comprising debt and equity underwriting and distribution, and merger-related advisory services. Its Global Markets segment provides financial products, advisory services, financing, securities clearing, settlement, and custody services. The companys Global Wealth & Investment Management segment offers investment and brokerage services, estate management, financial planning services, fiduciary management, credit and banking expertise, and asset management products. Bank of America Corporation serves customers through a network of approximately 6,011 banking centers, 18,262 automated teller machines, telephone, and online and mobile banking channels. The company was founded in 1874 and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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.

EMC CORP/MASS (NYSE:EMC) - EMC Corporation develops, delivers, and supports information infrastructure and virtual infrastructure technologies and solutions. The companys Information Storage segment offers networked information storage systems and software, which are deployed in storage area network (SAN), networked attached storage (NAS), unified storage combining NAS and SAN, content addressed storage, and direct attached storage environments. Its Content Management and Archiving segment provides software, which optimizes business processes, as well as creates, manages, delivers, and archives information from documents and discussions, e-mail, Web pages, images, XML, reports, records, rich media, and application data. The companys RSA Information Security segment delivers products, packaged solutions, and services to guard the integrity and confidentiality of information throughout its lifecycle. This segment offers solutions in identity assurance and access control, data loss prevention, encryption and key management, compliance and security information management, and fraud protection. Its principal products include RSA enVision, the RSA Data Loss Prevention (DLP) 7.0 Suite, RSA Share Project, and the RSA Adaptive Authentication platform. EMC Corporations VMware Virtual Infrastructure business offers virtual infrastructure solutions and services to address a range of IT problems that include cost and operational inefficiencies, business continuity, software lifecycle management, and desktop management. The company also provides consulting, technology deployment, managed, customer support, and training and certification services. It sells its products and services through direct sales and multiple distribution channels in North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, South Africa, and the Asia Pacific. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.

ISHARES MSCI JAPAN INDEX FD (NYSE:EWJ) - ISHARE MSCI JAPAN

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