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Market Maker Surveillance Report. STO, EBAY, BSX, NOK, RF, APKT, Bearishly Biased Price Friction For Wednesday, January 4th 20

January 4, 2012 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for Wednesday. 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 Wednesday there were 3609 companies with "abnormal" market making, 2728 companies with positive Friction Factors and 2975 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. Statoil ASA (NYSE:STO), EBAY INC (NASDAQ:EBAY), BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORP (NYSE:BSX), Nokia Oyj (NYSE:NOK), REGIONS FINANCIAL CORP (NYSE:RF), Acme Packet Inc (NASDAQ:APKT). 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
     STO        $-0.450      -1.68%       3,510,865       66.27%       737,366         13.92%       2,773,499       Abnormal
     EBAY       $-1.240      -3.95%       17,074,046      52.15%       14,899,177      45.51%       2,174,869       Abnormal
     BSX        $-0.050      -0.93%       8,659,107       35.65%       5,159,023       21.24%       3,500,084       Abnormal
     NOK        $-0.050      -0.97%       9,399,979       42.32%       6,684,335       30.09%       2,715,644       Abnormal
     RF         $-0.010      -0.23%       6,567,777       39.65%       5,240,481       31.64%       1,327,296       Abnormal
     APKT       $-6.110      -19.21%      9,051,295       53.66%       7,675,742       45.50%       1,375,553       Abnormal

Analysis of the Friction Factor chart above shows that each of the six stocks mentioned above had more buying than selling on Wednesday 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 STO with 2,773,499 greater shares of buying than selling (NetVol) and the stock price was down $-0.45000. 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.

Statoil ASA (NYSE:STO) - Statoil ASA engages in the exploration, production, transportation, refining, and marketing of petroleum and petroleum-derived products. The company involves in the exploration, development, and production of crude oil and natural gas in Norway and internationally, as well as extraction of natural gas liquids. It also transports and markets natural gas and natural gas products; and engages in petroleum refining operations, as well as marketing crude oil and refined petroleum products. In addition, the company involves in the retail sale of stationary energy primarily heating oil, kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas, and heavy fuel for industrial purposes; marine fuel comprising marine gasoil and heavy fuel; and aviation fuel, lubricants, and chemicals. As of December 31, 2010, it had proved reserves of 2,124 million barrels of oil, as well as 509 billion cubic meters of natural gas, corresponding to aggregate proved reserves of 5,325 million barrels-of-oil equivalent; and operated a network of 2,283 fuel stations, including a combination of full-service stations, which has integrated convenience stores, and automated fuel stations and truck stops located in Scandinavia, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and Russia. The company was formerly known as StatoilHydro ASA and changed its name to Statoil ASA in November 2009. Statoil ASA was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Stavanger, Norway.

EBAY INC (NASDAQ:EBAY) - eBay Inc. provides online marketplaces for the sale of goods and services, as well as other online commerce, platforms, and online payment solutions to individuals and businesses in the United States and internationally. The companys Marketplaces segment provides the infrastructure to enable online commerce on a range of platforms, including the eBay.com platform, and its localized platforms. Its online platforms also consist of StubHub, a secondary tickets marketplace; Shopping.com, an online shopping comparison Website; Rent.com, an apartment listing service platform; and Half.com, a fixed price media marketplace. This segment also operates classifieds Websites, such as Den Bla Avis, BilBasen, Gumtree, Kijiji, LoQUo, Marktplaats.nl, and mobile.de, as well as eBay Classifieds, including eBay Anuncios, eBay Kleinanzeigen, and eBay Annunci. In addition, its eBay.com platform provides services comprising feedback forums, safeharbor programs, verified rights owner programs, customer support, pre-trade and post-trade tools and services, powerseller programs, eBay top-rated seller programs, top buyer programs, coupons and buyer rewards, and eBay buyer protection services. The companys Payments segment operates online payment solutions, such as PayPal, which enables individuals and businesses to send and receive payments online; and Bill Me Later solution that enables the United States merchants to offer, the Unites States consumers to obtain, credit at the point of sale for ecommerce transactions through Bill Me Laters relationship with a chartered financial institution. eBay Inc. was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORP (NYSE:BSX) - Boston Scientific Corporation develops, manufactures, and markets medical devices used in various interventional medical specialties worldwide. It offers cardiac rhythm management products, which monitor the heart and deliver electricity to treat cardiac abnormalities; and RF generators, intracardiac ultrasound and steerable ablation catheters, and diagnostic catheters for the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. The company also provides interventional cardiology products, such as coronary stent systems, coronary revascularization products to treat patients with atherosclerosis and intraluminal catheter-directed ultrasound imaging catheters and systems; vascular access products, balloon catheters, stents and peripheral vascular catheters, wires, and accessories, as well as products for peripheral embolization procedures; and biliary stents, drainage catheters, and micro-puncture sets to treat, diagnose, and ease various forms of benign and malignant tumors. In addition, it offers coated and uncoated detachable coils, micro-delivery stents, micro-guidewires, micro-catheters, guiding catheters, and embolics to neuro-interventional radiologists and neurosurgeons to treat diseases of the neurovascular system; and endoscopy and interventional bronchoscopy products to diagnose and treat various digestive diseases, as well as pulmonary disease systems within the airway and lungs. Further, the company provides urology/womens health products to treat patients with urinary stone disease, benign prostatic hyperplasia, stress urinary incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, and excessive uterine bleeding; and spinal cord stimulation system for the management of chronic intractable pain of the trunk and/or limbs. Boston Scientific Corporation markets its products through direct sales force, and a network of distributors and dealers. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts with additional offices in Tokyo, Japan and Paris, France.

Nokia Oyj (NYSE:NOK) - Nokia Corporation manufactures and sells mobile devices, and provides Internet and digital mapping and navigation services worldwide. Its Devices & Services segment develops and manages a portfolio of mobile devices; and services comprising applications and content. It also offers Internet services focusing on navigation, applications and games, music, and mail, as well as on the tools that enable developers to create applications under the Ovi brand name. The companys NAVTEQ segment provides various digital map information and related location-based content and services to mobile device and handset manufacturers, automobile manufacturers and dealers, navigation systems manufacturers, software developers, Internet portals, parcel and overnight delivery services companies, and governmental and quasi-governmental entities. Its map database enables its customers to offer advanced driver assistance systems, dynamic navigation, route planning, location-based services, and geographic information-based products and services to consumer and commercial users. Its Nokia Siemens Networks segment provides mobile and fixed network solutions and related services to operators and service providers. This segment offers various business solutions, such as consulting and systems integration; service management, and charging and billing software; and subscriber database management. It also provides managed services, including network planning, optimization, and network operations; software and hardware maintenance, proactive, and multi-vendor care, as well as competence development services; and project management, turnkey implementations, and energy efficient sites. In addition, this segment offers fixed and mobile network infrastructure comprising Flexi multiradio base stations, packet core products, optical transport systems, and broadband access equipment, as well as network solutions. Nokia Corporation was founded in 1865 and is based in Espoo, Finland.

REGIONS FINANCIAL CORP (NYSE:RF) - Regions Financial Corporation operates as the holding company for the Regions Bank that provides a range of commercial, retail, and mortgage banking services in the United States. It offers various deposit products, including savings accounts, transaction accounts, and money market accounts, as well as time deposits, such as certificate of deposits and individual retirement accounts. The companys loan portfolio comprises commercial and industrial loans; owner occupied commercial real estate mortgage and construction loans; investor real estate loans consisting of commercial real estate mortgage and construction loans; and consumer loans, including residential first mortgage, home equity, and indirect and other consumer loans. Regions Financial Corporation, through other subsidiaries, provides regional brokerage and investment banking products and services, such as securities brokerage, asset management, financial planning, mutual funds, securities underwriting, sales and trading, investment banking services, and trust services. It also offers insurance brokerage services for various lines of personal and commercial insurance comprising property, casualty, life, health, and accident; credit-related insurance consisting of title, term life, credit life, environmental, crop, and mortgage insurance; and debt cancellation products. In addition, the company provides domestic and international equipment financing products primarily to commercial clients. It offers its banking services through approximately 1,800 banking offices and 2,200 ATMs in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. The company was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama.

Acme Packet Inc (NASDAQ:APKT) - Acme Packet, Inc. provides session border controllers (SBCs) that enable service providers, enterprises, and contact centers to deliver interactive communications and data services across Internet protocol (IP) network borders in the United States, Canada, and internationally. The SBCs are deployed at the borders between IP networks, such as between two service providers; between a service provider and its enterprise, residential, or mobile customers; and between enterprises IP network and their service providers network. The SBCs act as the source and destination for signaling messages and media streams entering and exiting the network. The company offers Acme Packet Net-Net OS, a software platform, which offers border control functionality in terms of architectural flexibility, signaling protocol breadth, control function and feature depth, and carrier-class availability and manageability. It also provides Acme Packet Net-Net platforms to address a range of interactive communications requirements; Acme Packet Net-Net OS-E, an enterprise SBC software; Acme Packet Net-Net EMS, a network element management application for the Net-Net family of producs; Acme Packet Net-Net SAS that provides off-line collection, reporting, and analysis of session call detail records; and Acme Packet Net-Net RMC, a element management application. In addition, the company offers professional, post-installation, and training services. Acme Packet, Inc. sells its products and services indirectly through distribution partners and through direct sales force. It serves primarily incumbent and competitive local exchange and long distance providers, international service providers, cable operators, voice application service providers, enterprises, universities, and government agencies. The company was formerly known as Primary Networks, Inc. and changed its name to Acme Packet, Inc. in January 2001. Acme Packet, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts.

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