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Market Maker Surveillance Report. VITA, GPS, INTC, MOS, MSFT, ORCL, Bearishly Biased Price Friction For Friday, May 20th 2011

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May 20, 2011 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for Friday. 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 Friday there were 2588 companies with "abnormal" market making, 1670 companies with positive Friction Factors and 3274 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. ORTHOVITA INC (NASDAQ:VITA), GAP INC/THE (NYSE:GPS), INTEL CORP (NASDAQ:INTC), MOSAIC CO/THE (NYSE:MOS), MICROSOFT CORP (NASDAQ:MSFT), ORACLE CORP (NASDAQ:ORCL). 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
     VITA       $-0.010      -0.26%       3,998,381       89.03%       492,594         10.97%       3,505,787       Abnormal
     GPS        $-4.110      -17.65%      13,861,896      35.93%       10,553,253      27.35%       3,308,643       Abnormal
     INTC       $-0.300      -1.27%       35,080,370      53.31%       30,647,908      46.57%       4,432,462       Abnormal
     MOS        $-0.910      -1.37%       16,807,884      33.67%       13,927,075      27.90%       2,880,809       Abnormal
     MSFT       $-0.230      -0.91%       28,589,853      58.52%       20,056,930      41.06%       8,532,923       Abnormal
     ORCL       $-0.110      -0.32%       10,304,795      62.86%       7,305,388       44.56%       2,999,407       Abnormal

For example, the chart above shows VITA with 3,505,787 greater shares of buying than selling (NetVol) and the stock price was down $-0.01000. 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.

ORTHOVITA INC (NASDAQ:VITA) - Orthovita, Inc., a specialty spine and orthopedic company, develops and markets orthobiologic and biosurgery products. The companys orthobiologics platform offers products for the fusion, regeneration, and fixation of human bone; and the biosurgery platform provides products for controlling intra-operative bleeding/hemostasis. Its orthobiologic product portfolio comprises Vitoss bone graft substitute, a high-porous resorbable beta-tricalcium phosphate bone graft substitute used to help the body guide the three-dimensional regeneration of the patients own bone; Bone Marrow Aspiration System with imbibe needles, syringes, and imbibe disposable delivery instrumentation, which provides spine and orthopedic surgeons with a method for harvesting a patients own bone marrow; Cortoss Bone Augmentation Material, a polymer composite for use in various surgical procedures to provide structural stability and reinforcement of the bones after surgery; and Aliquot Delivery System that facilitates delivery of materials to bony sites, including delivery of Cortoss product directly to the surgical site. The companys biosugery products include Vitagel surgical hemostat, a composite liquid hemostat that combines the biomaterials bovine thrombin and bovine collagen with the patients autologous plasma, and applied in the spine, hip, and knee replacement surgeries; and Vitasure Absorbable Hemostat, a plant-based hemostat product that can be deployed throughout surgery. It sells its products in the United States and internationally through a network of direct sales representatives and independent non-stocking distributors. The company has strategic partnerships with Kensey Nash Corporation; Angiotech Pharmaceuticals (U.S.), Inc.; and Medafor, Inc. Orthovita was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania.

GAP INC/THE (NYSE:GPS) - The Gap, Inc. operates as a specialty retailing company. The company offers apparel, accessories, and personal care products for men, women, children, and babies under the Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic, Piperlime, and Athleta brand names. Its products include wardrobe basics, such as denim, khakis, and T-shirts; fashion apparel; casual apparel and accessories; maternity apparel; womens underwear, sleepwear, loungewear, and sports and active apparel; and shoes and accessories. The company also has franchise agreements with unaffiliated franchisees to operate stores in Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East under the Gap and Banana Republic brand names. It operates approximately 3,246 company-operated and franchise store locations. The company operates company-operated stores in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Ireland, Japan, China, and Italy. In addition, it offers its products through catalogs, as well as through gap.com, oldnavy.com, bananarepublic.com, piperlime.com, and athleta.com Websites. The Gap, Inc. was founded in 1969 and is based in San Francisco, California.

INTEL CORP (NASDAQ:INTC) - Intel Corporation engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of 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 provides system on chip products that integrate its core processing functionalities with other system components, such as graphics, audio, and video, onto a single chip. In addition, it offers chipset products that send data between the microprocessor and input, display, and storage devices, including keyboard, mouse, monitor, hard drive, and CD, DVD, or Blu-ray drives; motherboards designed for desktop, server, and workstation platforms, and that has connectors for attaching devices to the bus; and wired and wireless connectivity products consisting of network adapters and embedded wireless cards used to translate and transmit data across networks. Further, the company provides NAND flash memory products primarily used in portable memory storage devices, digital camera memory cards, and solid-state drives; software products comprising operating systems, middleware, and tools used to develop, run, and manage various enterprise, consumer, embedded, and handheld devices; and software development tools that enable the creation of applications. Additionally, it develops computing platforms, which are integrated hardware and software computing technologies designed to offer an optimized solution. The company sells its products principally to original equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers, PC components and other products users, and other manufacturers of industrial and communications equipment. It has a strategic alliance with Scientific Conservation Inc. Intel Corporation was founded in 1968 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

MOSAIC CO/THE (NYSE:MOS) - The Mosaic Company engages in the production and marketing of concentrated phosphate and potash crop nutrients for the agriculture industry worldwide. The company produces phosphate crop nutrients for use in crop nutrients and feed phosphate for animal feed ingredients. It also produces and sells potash for use as fertilizers and animal feed ingredients, as well as in industrial applications. Potash is also used for de-icing and as a water softener regenerant. In addition, The Mosaic Company produces and/or markets phosphate-, potash-, and nitrogen-based crop nutrients and animal feed ingredients, as well as operates sales offices, crop nutrient blending and bagging facilities, port terminals, and warehouses. It sells its products primarily to wholesale distributors, retail chains, cooperatives, independent retailers, and national accounts. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Plymouth, Minnesota. The Mosaic Company is a subsidiary of Cargill, Incorporated.

MICROSOFT CORP (NASDAQ:MSFT) - Microsoft Corporation develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a range of software products and services for various computing devices worldwide. The companys Windows & Windows Live Division segment offers Windows operating system, Windows Live, and Internet Explorer. It offers Windows operating system, which include Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP Home, as well as Windows Live suite of applications and Web services. Microsofts Server and Tools segment provides Windows Server operating systems, Windows Azure, Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Azure, Visual Studio, Silverlight, System Center products, Biz Talk server, Microsoft consulting services, and product support services. This segment also provides enterprise consulting and product support services; and training and certification to developers and information technology professionals, as well as builds standalone and software development lifecycle tools for software architects, developers, testers, and project managers. The companys Online Services Division segment offers online information products, such as Bing, MSN portals, and channels; and an online advertising platform for publishers and advertisers. Microsofts Microsoft Business Division segment offers Microsoft Office, Microsoft SharePoint, and Microsoft Dynamics ERP and CRM, as well as Microsoft Office Web Apps. The companys Entertainment and Devices Division segment develops, produces, and markets the Xbox 360 platform; PC software games; online games and services; Mediaroom, an Internet protocol television software; Windows Phone and Windows Embedded device platforms; the Zune digital music and entertainment platform; and application software for Apples Macintosh computers, Microsoft PC hardware products, and other devices. This segment also involves in retail and marketing of packaged versions of the Microsoft Office system and the Windows operating systems. Microsoft was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

ORACLE CORP (NASDAQ:ORCL) - Oracle Corporation, an enterprise software company, develops, manufactures, markets, distributes, and services database and middleware software, applications software, and hardware systems worldwide. It engages in licensing database and middleware software, including database, application server and application grid, SOA suite and business process management, data migration and integration, business intelligence, identity and access management, content management, portal and user interaction, developer tools, Oracle enterprise manager, and Java platform. The company also offers application software, including enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, enterprise performance management, supply chain management, business intelligence applications, enterprise project portfolio management, and industry-specific applications; and software license updates and product support services. In addition, it provides hardware systems products, such as servers, storage products, Solaris operating system and other hardware-related software, and networking components and products; and hardware systems support services. Further, the company offers consulting services, which include enterprise architecture design and implementation, business/IT strategy alignment, business process simplification, solution integration, and product implementation, enhancements, and upgrades; on demand and advanced customer services; and training services, as well as certification programs. It markets and sells its products directly, as well as through resellers, system integrators/implementers, consultants, education providers, Internet service providers, network integrators, and independent software vendors to various industries, government agencies, and educational institutions. The company has a strategic alliance with Cap Gemini S.A. to market and implement Oracle Revenue Management for public. Oracle was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

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