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Market Maker Surveillance Report. C, HBAN, AA, DHI, CPWR, HST, Bearishly Biased Price Friction For Friday, December 23rd 2011

^{Published on 2011-12-23 18:00:52 - WOPRAI}
 

December 23, 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 3785 companies with "abnormal" market making, 3591 companies with positive Friction Factors and 2320 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), HUNTINGTON BANCSHARES INC (NASDAQ:HBAN), ALCOA INC. (NYSE:AA), DR HORTON INC (NYSE:DHI), COMPUWARE CORPORATION (NASDAQ:CPWR), HOST HOTELS & RESORTS INC (NYSE:HST). 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          $-0.250      -0.90%       11,634,591      32.52%       10,353,585      28.94%       1,281,006       Abnormal
     HBAN       $-0.010      -0.18%       5,470,829       54.58%       4,550,916       45.41%       919,913         Abnormal
     AA         $-0.040      -0.51%       6,149,568       38.04%       4,402,709       27.23%       1,746,859       Abnormal
     DHI        $-0.070      -0.56%       1,281,859       44.04%       703,429         24.17%       578,430         Abnormal
     CPWR       $-0.020      -0.24%       1,953,437       57.31%       1,404,841       41.22%       548,596         Abnormal
     HST        $-0.060      -0.44%       1,598,098       43.63%       975,276         26.62%       622,822         Abnormal

For example, the chart above shows C with 1,281,006 greater shares of buying than selling (NetVol) and the stock price was down $-0.25000. 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.

HUNTINGTON BANCSHARES INC (NASDAQ:HBAN) - Huntington Bancshares Incorporated operates as the holding company for The Huntington National Bank that provides commercial and consumer banking services. It offers deposit products, including checking accounts, savings accounts, interest bearing and non-interest bearing demand deposits, time deposits, money market deposits, and brokered deposits and negotiable certificate of deposits. The companys loan portfolio comprises home equity loans and lines of credit, first mortgage loans, direct installment loans, small business loans, automobile loans and leases, residential mortgage loans, commercial and industrial loans and leases, and commercial real estate loans. It also provides retail and commercial insurance agency services; and an array of insurance products, including individual life insurance products, such as basic term-life insurance, estate planning, group life and health insurance, property and casualty insurance, mortgage title insurance, and reinsurance for payment protection products. In addition, the company offers trust, asset management, investment advisory, brokerage, and private banking products and services; and investment banking, sales and trading of securities, mezzanine capital financing, and interest rate risk management products for corporate and institutional customers. Further, Huntington Bancshares provides mortgage banking, equipment leasing, and other financial products and services; and Internet banking and telephone banking services. As of December 31, 2009, the company operated 340 banking offices in Ohio, 115 in Michigan, 56 in Pennsylvania, 50 in Indiana, 28 in West Virginia, and 13 banking offices in Kentucky, as well as 9 private banking offices in Florida, 1 foreign office in the Cayman Islands, and 1 foreign office in Hong Kong. It also operated approximately 1,300 automated teller machines. The company was founded in 1866 and is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.

ALCOA INC. (NYSE:AA) - Alcoa, Inc. engages in the production and management of aluminum, fabricated aluminum, and alumina. The company operates in four segments: Alumina, Primary Metals, Flat-Rolled Products, and Engineered Products and Solutions. The Alumina segment engages in mining of bauxite, which is then refined into alumina. The Primary Metals segment produces aluminum. The Flat-Rolled Products segment engages in the production and sale of aluminum plate, sheet, and foil. The Engineered Products and Solutions segment produces and sells titanium, aluminum, and super alloy investment castings, hard alloy extrusions, forgings and fasteners, aluminum wheels, integrated aluminum structural systems, and architectural extrusions. Its products are used in aircraft, automobiles, commercial transportation, packaging, building and construction, oil and gas, defense, and industrial applications. The company holds interests in bauxite mining activities. It operates primarily in the United States, Australia, Spain, Brazil, the Netherlands, Norway, France, Hungary, Italy, the United Kingdom, Russia, and Germany. Alcoa, Inc. was founded in 1888 and is based in New York, New York.

DR HORTON INC (NYSE:DHI) - D.R. Horton, Inc. operates as a homebuilding company in the United States. The companys Homebuilding segment engages in the acquisition and development of land, and construction and sale of residential homes on the land in 26 states and 72 markets in the United States primarily under the name of D.R. Horton and Americas Builder. This segment also builds traditional single-family detached homes, as well as attached homes, such as town homes, duplexes, triplexes and condominiums, which share common walls and roofs. Its Financial Services segment involves in originating and selling mortgages, as well as provides title insurance policies, examination, and closing services to homebuyers. The company markets and sells its homes through commissioned employees and independent real estate brokers. The company was founded in 1978 and is based in Fort Worth, Texas.

COMPUWARE CORPORATION (NASDAQ:CPWR) - Compuware Corporation provides software and Web performance solutions, professional services, and application services. Its products include File-AID, Xpediter, Hiperstation, Abend-AID, and Strobe products, which are used in application analysis, testing, defect detection and remediation, fault management, file and data management, data compliance, and application service management in the IBM z/OS environment. The company also offers Vantage family of IT service management products that provide an end-to-end approach for managing application performance by combining end user experience monitoring, business service management, and vantage application performance management; Changepoint, a governance and management solution, which addresses the needs of executives in the technology companies, enterprise IT, and professional services organizations; and Uniface, a service oriented architecture-based application platform suite that help developers to develop, integrate, maintain, and deploy business-critical applications. In addition, Compuware provides Web performance services that are used by enterprises to test and monitor the performance, availability, and quality of their Web applications while in development and after deployment; professional services for distributed and mainframe environments, such as IT portfolio management services, application delivery management services, application outsourcing services, and enterprise legacy modernization services; and application services, which are marketed under the brand name Covisint, that provide a software-as-a-service platform, which offers industry-specific solutions for organizations in automotive, healthcare, public sector, and financial services industries. Its customers include IT departments of various commercial and government organizations. Compuware sells its products primarily in the United States, Europe, and Africa. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Detroit, Michigan.

HOST HOTELS & RESORTS INC (NYSE:HST) - Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. is a publicly owned real estate investment trust (REIT). The firm primarily engages in the ownership and operation of hotel properties. It invests in the real estate markets of United States. It also invests in Canada, Mexico, Chile, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, and Poland. The firm primarily invests in luxury and upper upscale hotels. It was formerly known as Host Marriott Corporation. Host Hotels & Resorts was founded in 1927 and is based in Bethesda, Maryland.

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