





Market Maker Surveillance Report. CRBC, STEM, GM, DPTR, ACAS, MSFT, Bearishly Biased Price Friction For Friday, June 24th 2011
Published in Stocks and Investing on Friday, June 24th 2011 at 17:50 GMT by WOPRAI

June 24, 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 4355 companies with "abnormal" market making, 2537 companies with positive Friction Factors and 4013 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. CITIZENS REPUBLIC BANCORP IN (NASDAQ:CRBC), STEMCELLS INC (NASDAQ:STEM), GENERAL MOTORS CO (NYSE:GM), DELTA PETROLEUM CORP (NASDAQ:DPTR), AMERICAN CAPITAL, LIMITED (NASDAQ:ACAS), MICROSOFT CORP (NASDAQ:MSFT). 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 CRBC $-0.010 -1.55% 53,404,819 85.50% 9,052,485 14.49% 44,352,334 Abnormal STEM $-0.040 -6.88% 17,749,863 89.30% 1,963,446 9.88% 15,786,417 Abnormal GM $-0.350 -1.16% 26,063,973 60.62% 6,907,460 16.06% 19,156,513 Abnormal DPTR $-0.010 -1.91% 23,452,578 91.82% 2,088,700 8.18% 21,363,878 Abnormal ACAS $-0.090 -0.97% 34,139,229 88.76% 4,158,244 10.81% 29,980,985 Abnormal MSFT $-0.330 -1.34% 46,025,533 62.66% 27,040,846 36.81% 18,984,687 AbnormalAnalysis of the Friction Factor chart above shows that each of the six stocks mentioned above had more buying than selling on Friday 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 CRBC with 44,352,334 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.
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.
STEMCELLS INC (NASDAQ:STEM) - StemCells, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, engages in the research, development, and commercialization of stem cell therapeutics and related technologies. It develops cell-based therapeutics for the central nervous system and liver. The companys lead product candidate, HuCNS-SC cells have completed a Phase I clinical trial for the treatment of infantile and late infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis, a neurodegenerative disease that affects infants and young children. HuCNS-SC cells are also in Phase I clinical trial for the treatment of Pelizeaus-Merzbacher disease, a fatal myelination disorder in the brain. In addition, it involves in preclinical development with its human liver engrafting cells (hLEC) to evaluate hLEC as a potential cellular therapy for a range of liver diseases. Further, the company is developing and commercializing applications of its technologies to enable stem cell-based research to academic and industrial laboratories. It markets a range of proprietary cell culture products under the SC Proven brand, including iSTEM, GS1-R, GS2-M, RHB-A, RHB-Basal, NDiff N2B27, NDiff 2 and 27 supplements, HEScGRO, and ESGRO Complete proprietary media. StemCells, Inc. has exclusive rights to approximately 50 issued or allowed U.S. patents, and 200 granted or allowed non-U.S. patents. The company was founded in 1988 and is based in Palo Alto, California.
GENERAL MOTORS CO (NYSE:GM) - General Motors Company (GM) operates as a global automaker. It produces cars and trucks and sells them under the brand names Baojun, Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, Daewoo, Holden, Opel, Isuzu, Vauxhall, Jiefang, FAW, and Wuling. The company sells its cars and trucks to dealers for consumer retail sales, as well as to fleet customers, including daily rental car companies, commercial fleet customers, leasing companies, and governments. Its major markets include China, the United States, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, and Italy. GMs OnStar subsidiary provides vehicle safety, security, and information services. In addition, it provides automotive financing services through its subsidiary, General Motors Financial Company, Inc., which purchases automobile finance contracts for new and used vehicles purchased by consumers primarily from franchised and select independent dealerships. GM was founded in 1908 and is headquartered in Detroit, Michigan.
DELTA PETROLEUM CORP (NASDAQ:DPTR) - Delta Petroleum Corporation and its subsidiaries engage in the exploration, acquisition, development, production, and sale of natural gas and crude oil primarily in the Rocky Mountain and onshore Gulf Coast regions. The company owns interests in developed and undeveloped oil and gas properties in federal units offshore California, near Santa Barbara; and developed and undeveloped oil and gas properties in the continental United States. It also engages in contract drilling operations, as well as providing moving services for third party drilling rigs in the Casper, Wyoming area. As of December 31, 2009, the companys proved reserves were comprised of approximately 126.7 billion cubic feet of natural gas, and 4.5 Mmbbls of crude oil. Delta Petroleum Corporation was founded in 1984 and is based in Denver, Colorado.
AMERICAN CAPITAL, LIMITED (NASDAQ:ACAS) - American Capital, Ltd. is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in management and employee buyouts, mezzanine, acquisition, recapitalization, middle market, and growth capital investments. The firm seeks to invest in senior debt mezzanine and equity financing for buyouts of private equity firms and direct in private and public companies. It also invests in special situations and in government. In special situations, the firm invests in troubled situations and in distressed situations. In this area, it invests in acquisitions of true turnarounds, 363 auctions, portfolio add-ons, operationally challenged companies; financings in exit, ABL loans, second lien refinance, and direct lending to distressed companies. The firm invests in manufacturing, services, and distribution companies with a special focus on energy sector. In energy production sector, the firm invests in lower risk oil and gas exploration, production and development; natural gas liquids; coal mining and coal-fired generation; uranium mining and nuclear-fired generation; wind-powered generation; and solar-powered generation. In energy transmission sector, the firm invests in oil and gas pipelines; LNG tankers and regasification facilities; and power transmission. In energy distribution sector, it targets propane distribution; gas distribution; electricity distribution. In energy services sector, the firm invests in oil and gas services and utility services. The firm also targets investments in companies that provide services or products to federal, state or local governments. It seeks to invest in information technology, human resources/benefit administration, outsourcing, transaction processing, engineering and construction, logistics, original equipment manufacturers homeland security and component, after market parts and supplies, and technology. It invests as lead or participative investor. The firm and its affiliates invest from $5 million to $300 million per company in North America and 5 million ($6.92520 million) to 25 million ($34.6260 million) per company in Europe. It invests in companies with at least $4 million in EBITDA. American Capital, Ltd. was founded in 1986 and is based in Bethesda, Maryland with additional offices in United States, Europe, and Asia.
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.
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