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Market Maker Surveillance Report. COP, MF, YHOO, SPF, MSFT, NWSA, Bearishly Biased Price Friction For Friday, October 28th 201

^{Published on 2011-10-28 18:00:36 - WOPRAI}
 

October 28, 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 4006 companies with "abnormal" market making, 2937 companies with positive Friction Factors and 2951 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. CONOCOPHILLIPS (NYSE:COP), MF GLOBAL HOLDINGS LTD (NYSE:MF), YAHOO! INC (NASDAQ:YHOO), STANDARD PACIFIC CORP (NYSE:SPF), MICROSOFT CORP (NASDAQ:MSFT), NEWS CORP-CL A (NASDAQ:NWSA). 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
     COP        $-1.750      -2.37%       5,647,975       38.41%       3,402,899       23.14%       2,245,076       Abnormal
     MF         $-0.250      -17.48%      30,842,124      36.75%       27,849,163      33.19%       2,992,961       Abnormal
     YHOO       $-0.070      -0.42%       12,599,814      57.82%       8,935,660       41.00%       3,664,154       Abnormal
     SPF        $-0.410      -11.55%      4,787,197       46.87%       2,174,082       21.29%       2,613,115       Abnormal
     MSFT       $-0.230      -0.84%       39,000,872      61.87%       22,991,872      36.47%       16,009,000      Abnormal
     NWSA       $-0.040      -0.24%       8,849,727       57.34%       6,441,231       41.73%       2,408,496       Abnormal

For example, the chart above shows COP with 2,245,076 greater shares of buying than selling (NetVol) and the stock price was down $-1.75000. 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.

CONOCOPHILLIPS (NYSE:COP) - ConocoPhillips operates as an integrated energy company worldwide. The companys Exploration and Production (E&P) segment explores for, produces, transports, and markets crude oil, bitumen, natural gas, liquefied natural gas, and natural gas liquids. Its Midstream segment gathers, processes, and markets natural gas; and fractionates and markets natural gas liquids in the United States and Trinidad. The companys Refining and Marketing (R&M) segment purchases, refines, markets, and transports crude oil and petroleum products, such as gasolines, distillates, and aviation fuels. Its Chemicals segment manufactures and markets petrochemicals and plastics. This segment offers olefins and polyolefins, including ethylene, propylene, and other olefin products; aromatics products, such as benzene, styrene, paraxylene, and cyclohexane, as well as polystyrene and styrene-butadiene copolymers; and various specialty chemical products comprising organosulfur chemicals, solvents, catalysts, drilling chemicals, mining chemicals, and engineering plastics and compounds. The companys Emerging Businesses segment develops new technologies and businesses. It focuses on power generation; and technologies related to conventional and nonconventional hydrocarbon recovery, refining, alternative energy, biofuels, and the environment. This segment also offers E-Gas, a gasification technology producing high-value synthetic gas. ConocoPhillips was founded in 1917 and is based in Houston, Texas.

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.

YAHOO! INC (NASDAQ:YHOO) - Yahoo! Inc., together with its consolidated subsidiaries, operates as a digital media company that delivers personalized digital content and experiences, across devices and worldwide. The companys communications and communities offerings provide a range of communication and social services to users and small businesses across various devices and through its broadband Internet access partners. Its search and marketplaces offerings provide answers to users' information needs by delivering meaningful search, local, and listings experiences on the search results page and across Yahoo!. Yahoo!s marketplaces offerings and services enable users to research specific topics, products, services or areas of interest by reviewing and exchanging information, obtaining contact details or considering offers from providers of goods, services, or parties with similar interests. Its media properties and services engage users with relevant online content and services on the Web. The company also offers advertisers targeted solutions, insights about their customer base, and tools that leverage those insights for optimized program performance; marketing services to advertisers across a majority of Yahoo! Properties and Affiliate sites; display advertising, search advertising, listing-based services, and commerce-based transactions; and customized and relevant advertising. In addition, it provides software and platform offerings for third-party developers, advertisers, and publishers. Further, the company offers the display of graphical advertisements, text-based links to advertisers Web sites, and other sources. Additionally, it enables users to publish their content on any topic and distributes that content through its Web site and content partners. The company has strategic alliance with Samsung and Nokia. Yahoo! Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

STANDARD PACIFIC CORP (NYSE:SPF) - Standard Pacific Corp. operates as a diversified builder of single-family attached and detached homes in the United States. It constructs homes within various price and size ranges targeting diversified homebuyers with operations in major metropolitan markets in California, Florida, Arizona, Texas, the Carolinas, Colorado, and Nevada. The company, through its mortgage banking subsidiary, originates loans for its homebuyers, which are generally sold in the secondary mortgage market. In addition, Standard Pacific, through its title services subsidiary, acts as a title insurance agent performing title examination services for its Texas homebuyers. As of December 31, 2009, the company had 198 projects. Standard Pacific was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

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.

NEWS CORP-CL A (NASDAQ:NWSA) - News Corporation operates as a diversified media company worldwide. Its Cable Network Programming segment engages in producing and licensing programming distributed through cable television systems and direct broadcast satellite operators primarily in the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. The companys Filmed Entertainment segment produces and acquires live-action and animated motion pictures for distribution and licensing in various formats in entertainment media, as well as produces and licenses television programming worldwide. Its Television segment broadcasts network programming and operates 27 broadcast television stations in the United States. The companys Direct Broadcast Satellite Television segment distributes programming services via satellite and broadband directly to subscribers in Italy. Its Publishing segment involves in the publication of 4 national newspapers in the United Kingdom; approximately 146 newspapers in Australia; and a metropolitan newspaper and a national newspaper in the United States, as well as in the provision of information services. This segment also publishes English language books worldwide; and publishes free-standing inserts and offers in-store marketing products and services in the United States and Canada. The companys Other segment provides display advertising in outdoor locations, primarily in the Russian Federation and eastern Europe. News Corporation was founded in 1922 and is based in New York, New York.

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