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Market Maker Surveillance Report. MU, SNV, HRB, MBT, STX, FTWR, Bearishly Biased Price Friction For Friday, December 2nd 2011

^{Published on 2011-12-02 18:01:25 - WOPRAI}
 

December 2, 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 3974 companies with "abnormal" market making, 3265 companies with positive Friction Factors and 2650 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. MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC (NASDAQ:MU), SYNOVUS FINANCIAL CORP (NYSE:SNV), H&R BLOCK INC (NYSE:HRB), MOBILE TELESYSTEMS-SP ADR (NYSE:MBT), SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY (NASDAQ:STX), FIBERTOWER CORP (NASDAQ:FTWR). 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
     MU         $-0.090      -1.53%       13,904,713      51.09%       12,935,933      47.53%       968,780         Abnormal
     SNV        $-0.030      -1.99%       6,110,759       39.19%       2,817,880       18.07%       3,292,879       Abnormal
     HRB        $-1.050      -6.54%       4,223,446       38.16%       3,334,719       30.13%       888,727         Abnormal
     MBT        $-0.620      -3.73%       2,939,634       35.91%       1,713,063       20.93%       1,226,571       Abnormal
     STX        $-1.220      -7.02%       10,824,594      54.62%       8,870,459       44.76%       1,954,135       Abnormal
     FTWR       $-0.070      -31.82%      2,886,436       58.52%       2,045,687       41.48%       840,749         Abnormal

For example, the chart above shows MU with 968,780 greater shares of buying than selling (NetVol) and the stock price was down $-0.09000. 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.

MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC (NASDAQ:MU) - Micron Technology, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and marketing of semiconductor devices worldwide. Its products include dynamic random access memory (DRAM) products that provide data storage and retrieval, which include DDR2 and DDR3; and other specialty DRAM memory products, including DDR, SDRAM, DDR and DDR2 mobile low power DRAM, pseudo-static RAM, and reduced latency DRAM. The company also offers NAND flash memory products, which are electrically re-writeable and non-volatile semiconductor devices that retain content when power is turned off. In addition, it provides NOR flash memory products that are electrically re-writeable and non-volatile semiconductor memory devices; phase change memory products; and image sensor products. Micron Technologys products are used in a range of electronic applications, including personal computers, workstations, network servers, mobile phones, flash memory cards, USB storage devices, digital still cameras, MP3/4 players, and in automotive applications. It sells its products to original equipment manufacturers and retailers through internal sales force, independent sales representatives, and distributors, as well as through a Web-based customer direct sales channel. The company was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Boise, Idaho.

SYNOVUS FINANCIAL CORP (NYSE:SNV) - Synovus Financial Corp., a diversified financial services and bank holding company, provides commercial and retail banking, financial management, insurance, and mortgage services in Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Florida, and Tennessee. Its retail banking services include accepting customary types of demand and savings deposits; individual, consumer, installment, and mortgage loans; safe deposit services; automated banking services; automated fund transfers; Internet based banking services; and bank credit card services, including mastercard and visa services, as well as commercial banking services comprise commercial, financial, agricultural, and real estate loans. The company also provides various other financial services, which include the portfolio management for fixed-income securities, investment banking, the execution of securities transactions as a broker/dealer, and the provision of individual investment advice on equity and other securities; trust services; mortgage services; financial planning services; and asset management services. Synovus Financial Corp. was founded in 1888 and is headquartered in Columbus, Georgia.

H&R BLOCK INC (NYSE:HRB) - H&R Block, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides tax preparation, retail banking, and various business advisory and consulting services. It operates in three segments: Tax Services, Business Services, and Corporate. The Tax Services segment offers H&R Block At Home, an income tax preparation software, as well as a range of online tax services, including tax advice, professional and do-it-yourself tax return preparation, and electronic filing services through its Web site at hrblock.com primarily in the United States, Canada, and Australia. This segment also provides the H&R Block Prepaid Emerald MasterCard and Emerald Advance lines of credit through H&R Block Bank, as well as other retail banking services, including checking and savings accounts, individual retirement accounts, and certificates of deposit; and sells refund anticipation loans and refund anticipation checks offered by third-party lending institutions, as well as offers income tax return preparation courses to the public. The Business Services segment provides tax and consulting services, wealth management, and capital markets services to middle-market companies. The Corporate segment engages in various operations, which include interest income from the United States passive investments, interest expense on borrowings, net interest margin and gains or losses relating to mortgage loans held for investment, real estate owned, residual interests in securitizations and other corporate expenses principally related to finance, legal, and other support departments. The company was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri.

MOBILE TELESYSTEMS-SP ADR (NYSE:MBT) - Mobile TeleSystems OJSC, together with its subsidiaries, provides telecommunications services primarily in the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Armenia, and Belarus. The company provides a range of mobile and fixed line voice and data telecommunications services, including transmission, broadband, pay-TV, and various value-added services; and sells equipment and accessories. It also offers network access services, including mobile cellular voice and data communication services; automatic roaming services; GPRS and Internet access services; and 3G technology. In addition, the companys services include the design, construction, and installation of local voice and data networks capable of interconnecting with fixed line operators; installation and maintenance of cellular payphones; lease of digital communication channels; and provision of access to open computer databases and data networks, including the Internet, as well as video conferencing, and fixed, local, and long-distance telecommunications services. Further, it provides various value-added services, including call divert/forwarding, caller ID display and anti-caller ID display, conference calling, WiFi, location-based services, GPRS, intelligent call assistant, APN remote access point, fixed mobile convergence, enhanced data rates for GSM Evolution, call barring, SMS, mobile office, voicemail, mobile banking, wireless application protocol, MTS-Connect, SIM-browser, point-to-point transfer, unstructured supplementary services data, and high-speed downlink packet access. As of December 31, 2009, the company had a mobile subscriber base of approximately 97.81 million. It has a strategic partnership with Vodafone. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Moscow, the Russian Federation. Mobile Telesystems OJSC operates as a subsidiary of Sistema JSFC.

SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY (NASDAQ:STX) - Seagate Technology Public Limited Company designs, manufactures, markets, and sells hard disk drives for the enterprise, client compute, and client non-compute market applications in the United States and internationally. The companys products are used in enterprise servers; mainframes and workstations; desktop and notebook computers; digital video recorders; personal data backup systems; portable external storage systems; and digital media systems. It also offers data storage services for small- to medium-sized businesses, including online backup, data protection, and recovery solutions; and ships external backup storage solutions under the Free Agent Go and Free Agent Go Flex product lines. Seagate Technology sells its products primarily to original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

FIBERTOWER CORP (NASDAQ:FTWR) - FiberTower Corporation provides facilities-based backhaul and premise access services to wireless carriers, government, and enterprise markets in the United States. It provide backhaul services by utilizing its wireless spectrum assets and fiber relationships to construct and operate high-coverage, high-capacity hybrid microwave and fiber networks. The company provides carrier-grade connectivity over its licensed spectrum to enterprises located in on-net and off-net buildings. It offers transport services based on various protocols, such as time division multiplexing (TDM), SONET, and Ethernet. As of March 31, 2010, the company provided services to 6,207 billing customer locations at 2,776 billing sites in 13 markets, including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas/Fort Worth, Denver, Detroit, Houston, New York/New Jersey, Pittsburgh, San Antonio/Austin/Waco, Washington DC/N. Virginia/S. Maryland, and West Florida. FiberTower Corporation is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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