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Market Maker Surveillance Report. CMCSA, LOW, OMX, HPQ, HD, RF, Bullishly Biased Price Friction For Friday, June 17th 2011

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June 17, 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 4571 companies with "abnormal" market making, 3456 companies with positive Friction Factors and 2893 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. COMCAST CORP-CLASS A (NASDAQ:CMCSA), LOWE'S COS INC (NYSE:LOW), OFFICEMAX INC (NYSE:OMX), HEWLETT-PACKARD CO (NYSE:HPQ), HOME DEPOT INC (NYSE:HD), REGIONS FINANCIAL CORP (NYSE:RF). 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
     CMCSA      $0.180       0.77%        8,065,262       34.09%       15,586,120      65.88%       -7,520,858      Abnormal
     LOW        $0.110       0.49%        4,903,213       19.19%       12,568,313      49.18%       -7,665,100      Abnormal
     OMX        $0.110       1.54%        2,285,472       22.23%       5,326,738       51.82%       -3,041,266      Abnormal
     HPQ        $0.030       0.09%        6,595,981       18.33%       17,738,000      49.29%       -11,142,019     Abnormal
     HD         $0.020       0.05%        2,796,873       16.64%       7,274,321       43.29%       -4,477,448      Abnormal
     RF         $0.100       1.62%        9,019,261       24.06%       13,211,521      35.24%       -4,192,260      Abnormal

For example, the chart above shows CMCSA with 7,520,858 greater shares of selling than buying (NetVol) and the stock price was up $0.18000. 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.

COMCAST CORP-CLASS A (NASDAQ:CMCSA) - Comcast Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides consumer entertainment, information, and communication products and services to the residential and commercial customers in the United States. The company operates in two segments, Cable and Programming. The Cable segment manages and operates cable systems, including video, high-speed Internet, and phone services, as well as regional sports and news networks. Its video services include analog, digital, on demand, and high-definition television and/or digital video recorders. This segments high-speed Internet service consists of an interactive portal, Comcast.net, which provides multiple email addresses and online storage, as well as various proprietary content, and value-added features and enhancements. Its phone services include voice over Internet protocol digital phone service that provides local and domestic long-distance calling with various features, such as voice mail, caller ID, and call waiting services. The Programming segment operates national programming networks consisting of E!, The Golf Channel, VERSUS, G4, and Style. The company also develops and operates Internet businesses focused on entertainment, information, and communication, including Comcast.net, Fancast, thePlatform, Fandango, Plaxo, and DailyCandy; and owns two professional sports teams and a multipurpose arena, as well as provides facilities management services, including food services, for sporting events, concerts, and other events. As of December 31, 2009, Comcast Corporation served approximately 23.6 million video customers, 15.9 million high-speed Internet customers, and 7.6 million phone customers, as well as approximately 50.6 million homes in 39 states and the District of Columbia. The company was founded in 1969 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

LOWE'S COS INC (NYSE:LOW) - Lowe's Companies, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a home improvement retailer in the United States and Canada. The company offers a range of products for home decorating, maintenance, repair, remodeling, and property maintenance. It provides home improvement products in the categories of appliances, paint, lumber, flooring, building materials, millwork, lawn and landscape products, hardware, fashion plumbing, tools, lighting, seasonal living, rough plumbing, nursery, outdoor power equipment, cabinets and countertops, rough electrical, home environment, home organization, and windows and walls, as well as boards, panel products, irrigation pipes, vinyl sidings, and ladders. The company also offers installation services through independent contractors in various product categories. Lowe's Companies serves homeowners and renters primarily consisting of do-it-yourself customers and do-it-for-me customers, as well as others buying for personal and family use; and commercial business customers, who work in the construction, repair/remodel, commercial and residential property management, or business maintenance professions. As of January 29, 2010, it operated 1,710 stores, including 1,694 stores in the United States and 16 stores in Canada. The company also offers its products through electronic product catalogs and Lowes.com. Lowe's Companies, Inc. was founded in 1952 and is based in Mooresville, North Carolina.

OFFICEMAX INC (NYSE:OMX) - OfficeMax Incorporated, together with its subsidiaries, distributes business-to-business and retail office products. The Officemax Contract segment markets and sells office supplies and paper, technology products and solutions, office furniture, and print and document services directly to corporate and government offices, as well as to small and medium-sized offices in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Puerto Rico. It sells its products through field salespeople, outbound telesales, catalogs, the Internet, and office products stores. As of January 23, 2010, it operated 44 distribution centers and 5 customer service and outbound telesales centers, as well as 55 office products stores. The Officemax Retail segment operates as a retail distributor of office supplies and paper, print and document services, technology products and solutions, and office furniture. It operated 1010 stores the United States and Mexico, 3 distribution centers in the United States, and 2 small distribution centers in Mexico. The company, formerly known as Boise Cascade Corporation, was founded in 1913 and is headquartered in Naperville, Illinois.

HEWLETT-PACKARD CO (NYSE:HPQ) - Hewlett-Packard Company offers various products, technologies, software, solutions, and services to individual consumers and small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), as well as to the government, health, and education sectors worldwide. The companys Services segment provides consulting, outsourcing, and technology services to infrastructure, applications, and business process domains. Its Enterprise Storage and Servers segment offers storage and server products. This segment provides industry standard servers, business critical systems, and storage works offerings. The companys HP Software segment provides enterprise IT management solutions, information management and business intelligence solutions, and communications and media solutions. Its Personal Systems Group segment offers commercial personal computers (PCs), consumer PCs, workstations, handheld computing devices, calculators and other related accessories, and software and services for the commercial and consumer markets. The companys Imaging and Printing Group segment provides consumer and commercial printer hardware, printing supplies, printing media, and scanning devices, such as inkjet and Web solutions, laserjet and enterprise solutions, managed enterprise solutions, graphics solutions, and printer supplies. Its HP Financial Services segment offers leasing, financing, utility programs, and asset recovery services; and financial asset management services for enterprise customers, as well as specialized financial services to SMBs, and educational and governmental entities. The company also provides network infrastructure products under the ProCurve, 3Com, and TippingPoint brand names; video collaboration products under the Halo brand name; and Palm smartphones, as well as licenses its specific technology to third parties. Hewlett-Packard Company was founded in 1939 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

HOME DEPOT INC (NYSE:HD) - The Home Depot, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a home improvement retailer. The companys stores sell a range of building materials, home improvement products, and lawn and garden products to do-it-yourself, do-it-for-me (D-I-F-M), and professional customers. It also offers installation services to D-I-F-M customers. These installation programs include products, such as carpeting, flooring, cabinets, countertops, and water heaters. In addition, the company provides professional installation of various products, such as generators, and furnace and central air systems that are sold through its in-home sales programs. As of December 31, 2009, it had 2,244 The Home Depot stores located throughout the United States, including the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the territories of the U.S. Virgin Islands and Guam; Canada; China; and Mexico. The Home Depot, Inc. was founded in 1978 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

REGIONS FINANCIAL CORP (NYSE:RF) - Regions Financial Corporation operates as the holding company for the Regions Bank that provides a range of commercial, retail, and mortgage banking services in the United States. It offers various deposit products, including savings accounts, transaction accounts, and money market accounts, as well as time deposits, such as certificate of deposits and individual retirement accounts. The companys loan portfolio comprises commercial and industrial loans; owner occupied commercial real estate mortgage and construction loans; investor real estate loans consisting of commercial real estate mortgage and construction loans; and consumer loans, including residential first mortgage, home equity, and indirect and other consumer loans. Regions Financial Corporation, through other subsidiaries, provides regional brokerage and investment banking products and services, such as securities brokerage, asset management, financial planning, mutual funds, securities underwriting, sales and trading, investment banking services, and trust services. It also offers insurance brokerage services for various lines of personal and commercial insurance comprising property, casualty, life, health, and accident; credit-related insurance consisting of title, term life, credit life, environmental, crop, and mortgage insurance; and debt cancellation products. In addition, the company provides domestic and international equipment financing products primarily to commercial clients. It offers its banking services through approximately 1,800 banking offices and 2,200 ATMs in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. The company was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama.

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