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Market Maker Surveillance Report. IWM, C, UCBI, EWC, INTC, PPL, Bullishly Biased Price Friction For Thursday, March 17th 2011

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March 17, 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 2796 companies with "abnormal" market making, 3117 companies with positive Friction Factors and 1886 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. ISHARES RUSSELL 2000 (NYSE:IWM), CITIGROUP INC (NYSE:C), UNITED COMMUNITY BANKS/GA (NASDAQ:UCBI), ISHARES MSCI CANADA (NYSE:EWC), INTEL CORP (NASDAQ:INTC), PPL CORPORATION (NYSE:PPL). 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
     IWM        $0.200       0.26%        27,193,909      42.88%       35,209,505      55.52%       -8,015,596      Abnormal
     C          $0.060       1.37%        180,706,379     48.07%       184,934,956     49.19%       -4,228,577      Abnormal
     UCBI       $0.440       28.76%       4,850,451       40.60%       7,096,898       59.40%       -2,246,447      Abnormal
     EWC        $0.680       2.15%        2,273,589       33.55%       4,502,754       66.45%       -2,229,165      Abnormal
     INTC       $0.100       0.52%        27,090,182      45.63%       32,312,879      54.42%       -5,222,697      Abnormal
     PPL        $0.070       0.29%        2,694,992       32.19%       5,064,729       60.49%       -2,369,737      Abnormal

For example, the chart above shows IWM with 8,015,596 greater shares of selling than buying (NetVol) and the stock price was up $0.20000. 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.

ISHARES RUSSELL 2000 (NYSE:IWM) - ISHARE RUS 2000 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.

UNITED COMMUNITY BANKS/GA (NASDAQ:UCBI) - United Community Banks, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for United Community Bank that provides retail and corporate banking services. Its deposit product line includes interest-bearing and non interest bearing deposits, NOW accounts, money market accounts, checking accounts, savings deposits, time deposits, and brokered deposits. The companys loan portfolio comprises commercial and industrial loans, commercial loans secured by real estate, commercial construction loans, residential construction loans, residential mortgage, and consumer installment loans. It also offers wire transfers, brokerage services, and other financial services. In addition, the company provides insurance brokerage services, as well as retail brokerage services through an affiliation with a third party broker/dealer. As of December 31, 2009, United Community Bank operated at 107 locations in north Georgia, the Atlanta, Georgia MSA, the Gainesville, Georgia MSA, coastal Georgia, western North Carolina, and east Tennessee. The company was founded in 1950 and is based in Blairsville, Georgia.

ISHARES MSCI CANADA (NYSE:EWC) - ISHARE MSCI CANAD

INTEL CORP (NASDAQ:INTC) - Intel Corporation designs, manufactures, and sells integrated circuits for computing and communications industries worldwide. It offers microprocessor products used in notebooks, netbooks, desktops, servers, workstations, storage products, embedded applications, communications products, consumer electronics devices, and handhelds. The company also offers system on chip products that integrate its core processing functionalities with other system components, such as graphics, audio, and video, onto a single chip. It also provides chipset products that send data between the microprocessor and input, display, and storage devices, such as keyboard, mouse, monitor, hard drive, and CD or DVD drives; motherboards that has connectors for attaching devices to the bus, and products designed for desktop, server, and workstation platforms; and wired and wireless connectivity products, including network adapters and embedded wireless cards used to translate and transmit data across networks. In addition, Intel offers NAND flash memory products primarily used in portable memory storage devices, digital camera memory cards, and solid-state drives; network processors used in networking equipment to manage and direct data moving across networks and the Internet; software products, including operating systems, middleware, and tools used to develop, run, and manage various enterprise, consumer, embedded, and handheld devices, as well as software development tools that enable the creation of applications; and healthcare products designed to connect people and information to improve patient care and safety. Further, it offers platforms that include a microprocessor, chipset, and enabling software. Intel sells its products primarily to original equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers, PC and network communications products users, and other manufacturers of industrial and communications equipment. The company was founded in 1968 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

PPL CORPORATION (NYSE:PPL) - PPL Corporation, through its subsidiaries, generates and markets electricity to approximately 4 million retail, commercial, and industrial customers in the northeastern and western United States and the United Kingdom. It generates energy from various fuel sources, including uranium, coal, natural gas, oil, and water. As of December 31, 2009, the company operated 371 substations with a total capacity of approximately 30 million kVA; 33,053 circuit miles of overhead lines; and 7,310 cable miles of underground conductors in Pennsylvania. Its distribution system in the United Kingdom included 651 substations with a total capacity of 25 million kVA; 28,877 miles of overhead lines; and 23,896 cable miles of underground conductors. The company was founded in 1920 and is headquartered in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

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