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Market Maker Surveillance Report. C, GE, MF, ESRX, INTC, ORCL, Bearishly Biased Price Friction For Tuesday, October 25th 2011


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Published in Stocks and Investing on Tuesday, October 25th 2011 at 18:00 GMT by WOPRAI   Print publication without navigation


October 25, 2011 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for Tuesday. 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 Tuesday there were 3775 companies with "abnormal" market making, 1839 companies with positive Friction Factors and 4379 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. CITIGROUP INC (NYSE:C), GENERAL ELECTRIC CO (NYSE:GE), MF GLOBAL HOLDINGS LTD (NYSE:MF), EXPRESS SCRIPTS INC (NASDAQ:ESRX), INTEL CORPORATION (NASDAQ:INTC), 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
     C          $-0.670      -2.12%       18,771,509      29.00%       15,765,309      24.36%       3,006,200       Abnormal
     GE         $-0.220      -1.34%       26,952,577      33.02%       21,268,329      26.06%       5,684,248       Abnormal
     MF         $-1.620      -45.63%      23,362,378      37.26%       16,244,567      25.91%       7,117,811       Abnormal
     ESRX       $-0.850      -2.10%       6,784,175       67.77%       3,996,135       39.92%       2,788,040       Abnormal
     INTC       $-0.010      -0.04%       31,429,726      54.35%       27,648,967      47.82%       3,780,759       Abnormal
     ORCL       $-0.570      -1.73%       16,781,658      55.57%       14,360,502      47.55%       2,421,156       Abnormal
Analysis of the Friction Factor chart above shows that each of the six stocks mentioned above had more buying than selling on Tuesday 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 C with 3,006,200 greater shares of buying than selling (NetVol) and the stock price was down $-0.67000. 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.

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. The company operates through two 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, and branded cards in North America, Asia, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The Institutional Clients Group business provides securities and banking services comprising 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 operates Brokerage and Asset Management, Local Consumer Lending, and Special Asset Pool businesses. 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, personal 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 160 countries. The company was founded in 1812 and is based in New York, New York.

GENERAL ELECTRIC CO (NYSE:GE) - General Electric Company (GE) operates as a technology, media, and financial services company worldwide. Its Energy Infrastructure segment produces gas, steam, and aero derivative turbines; generators; combined cycle systems; and renewable energy solutions, as well as provides water treatment services and equipment. This segment also sells surface and subsea drilling and production systems, floating production platform equipment, compressors, turbines, turboexpanders, and high pressure reactors to oil and gas companies. The companys Technology Infrastructure segment manufactures jet engines, turboprop and turbo shaft engines, and its replacement parts for use in military and commercial aircraft, as well as provides repair and maintenance services. This segment also produces healthcare products, including diagnostic imaging systems; offers transportation products and maintenance services; provides enterprise solutions using sensors for temperature, pressure, moisture, gas and flow rate, as well as non-destructive testing inspection equipment. GEs NBC Universal segment engages in the production and distribution of films and television programs; operation of television stations and cable/satellite television networks, as well as theme parks. The companys Capital Finance segment offers commercial lending and leasing products to manufacturers, distributors, and end-users of equipment and capital assets; consumer financial services to consumers and retailers; capital and investment solutions for real estate; commercial finance to the energy and water industries; and commercial aircraft leasing and finance, and fleet and financing solutions. Its Consumer & Industrial segment produces various home appliances, lighting products, and electrical equipment and control products, as well as provides related services. The company has a joint venture with Shenhua International Limited. The company was founded in 1892 and is based in Fairfield, Connecticut.

MF GLOBAL HOLDINGS LTD (NYSE:MF) - MF Global Holdings Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a brokerage firm offering customized solutions in global cash and derivatives markets. It provides execution and clearing services for products in the exchange-traded and over-the-counter derivative markets, as well as for products in the cash market. The company primarily offers execution and clearing services for equities, fixed income products, interest rate products, foreign exchange products, and commodities. It also provides research, execution, and clearing services for listed and OTC equity-linked derivatives and cash securities; and execution, clearing, and financing services for fixed income and interest rate derivative products. In addition, the company offers foreign exchange services directly to its clients on an agency and principal basis; and clients execution, clearing, and financing services for transactions relating to derivative contracts, including futures, options, forward sale agreements, and other types of instruments based on the price of metals, steel products, and industrial materials. Further, it provides clearing and execution services for exchange-listed and OTC-traded energy derivatives. The company serves corporate hedgers, asset managers, professional traders, hedge funds, sovereign institutions, and individual investors through employee brokers and sales professionals, introducing brokers, and online platforms. It operates primarily in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong, Canada, India, and Japan. The company was formerly known as MF Global Ltd. and changed its name to MF Global Holdings Ltd. in January 2010. MF Global Holdings Ltd. is based in New York, New York.

EXPRESS SCRIPTS INC (NASDAQ:ESRX) - Express Scripts, Inc. provides a range of pharmacy benefit management (PBM) services in North America. The companys PBM services include retail network pharmacy management and retail drug card programs; home delivery pharmacy services; specialty pharmacy services; patient care contact centers; benefit plan design and consultation; drug formulary management; compliance and therapy management programs; information reporting and analysis programs; rebate programs, electronic claims processing, and drug utilization review; consumer health and drug information; bio-pharma services, including reimbursement and customized logistics solutions; medication therapy and safety through pharmacogenomics; and assistance programs for low-income patients. It also engages in the distribution of pharmaceuticals and medical supplies to providers and clinics; fertility pharmaceuticals requiring special handling or packaging; and sample units to physicians, as well as the verification of practitioner licensure, healthcare account administration, and implementation of consumer-directed healthcare solutions. It serves HMOs, health insurers, third-party administrators, employers, union-sponsored benefit plans, workers compensation plans, government health programs, office-based oncologists, renal dialysis clinics, ambulatory surgery centers, primary care physicians, and retina specialists. Express Scripts was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.

INTEL CORPORATION (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.

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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