Market Maker Surveillance Report. PG, T, UMC, CPST, F, BPAX, Highest Net Sell Volume and Negative Price Friction For Wednesday
February 8, 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 3930 companies with "abnormal" market making, 3120 companies with positive Friction Factors and 2796 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top companies with the highest net sell volume on Wednesday and lowest negative price Friction (bearish). This means that there was more selling than buying in the stocks and their stock prices dropped faster with less Friction. PROCTER & GAMBLE CO/THE (NYSE:PG), AT&T INC (NYSE:T), United Microelectronics Corp (NYSE:UMC), Capstone Turbine Corp (NASDAQ:CPST), Ford Motor Co (NYSE:F), BIOSANTE PHARMACEUTICALS INC (NASDAQ:BPAX). 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 PG $-0.060 -0.09% 2,021,241 24.77% 3,414,263 41.84% -1,393,022 -232,170 T $-0.020 -0.07% 5,646,217 28.12% 7,893,353 39.31% -2,247,136 -1,123,568 UMC $-0.070 -2.63% 1,941,445 24.64% 3,456,767 43.87% -1,515,322 -216,475 CPST $-0.100 -6.85% 1,669,948 36.45% 2,915,651 63.65% -1,245,703 -124,570 F $-0.060 -0.47% 10,294,416 29.21% 12,253,714 34.77% -1,959,298 -326,550 BPAX $-0.020 -2.33% 9,477,192 46.15% 11,059,008 53.85% -1,581,816 -790,908Analysis of the Friction Factor chart above shows that each of the six stocks mentioned above have low price friction combined with more selling than buying (negative Net Volume) in their stocks. 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 PG down $-0.06000 with a Friction Factor of -232,170 and a Net Volume of -1,393,022. That means that it takes 232,170 more shares of selling than buying to drop PG by one penny. On Monday the Market Makers allowed the stock to move down on heavier selling than buying (low negative friction).
PROCTER & GAMBLE CO/THE (NYSE:PG) - The Procter & Gamble Company provides consumer packaged goods in the United States and internationally. The company operates in three global business units (GBUs): Beauty and Grooming, Health and Well-Being, and Household Care. The Beauty and Grooming GBU offers female beauty products, including cosmetics, deodorants, female blades and razors, personal cleansing and skin care products, hair care products, and fragrances under the Head & Shoulders, Olay, Pantene, and Wella brands. It also provides electric hair removal devices, home appliances, male blades and razors, and male personal care products, such as deodorants, face and shave products, hair care, and personal cleansing products under the Braun, Fusion, Gillette, and Mach3 brands. The Health and Well-Being GBU provides feminine care, oral care, and personal health care products under Always, Crest, and Oral-B brands; and snacks and pet food under the Iams and Pringles brands. The Household Care GBU offers air care products, batteries, dish care products, and fabric care and surface care products under the Ace, Ariel, Dawn, Downy, Duracell, Gain, and Tide brands. It also offers baby care and family care products, including baby wipes, bath tissues, diapers, facial tissues, and paper towels under the Bounty, Charmin, and Pampers brands. The company sells its products through retail operations, including mass merchandisers, grocery stores, membership club stores, drug stores, department stores, salons, and high-frequency stores. The Procter & Gamble Company was founded in 1837 and is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.
AT&T INC (NYSE:T) - AT&T Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides telecommunication services to consumers, businesses, and other service providers worldwide. Its Wireless segment offers wireless voice communication services, including local wireless communications service, long-distance service, and roaming services. This segment also sells various handsets, wirelessly enabled computers, and personal computer wireless data cards; and accessories comprising carrying cases, hands-free devices, batteries, battery chargers and, other items. This segment sells its products through its own stores, or through agents or third party retail stores. The companys Wireline segment provides voice services, including local and long-distance services, calling card, 1-800 services, conference calling, wholesale switched access service, caller ID, call waiting, and voice mail services; and application management, security service, integration services, customer premises equipment, outsourcing, government-related services, and satellite video services. This segment also offers data services, such as switched and dedicated transport, Internet access and network integration, data equipment, and U-verse services; high-speed connections comprising private lines, packet, dedicated Internet, and enterprise networking services, as well as DSL/broadband, dial-up Internet access, and WiFi products; businesses voice applications over IP-based networks; and local, interstate, and international wholesale networking capacity to other service providers. In addition, its Advertising solutions segment publishes yellow and white pages directories; and sells directory advertising and Internet-based advertising and local search. The company was formerly known as SBC Communications Inc. and changed its name to AT&T Inc. in November 2005 as a result of merger with AT&T Corp. AT&T Inc. was founded in 1983 and is based in Dallas, Texas.
United Microelectronics Corp (NYSE:UMC) - United Microelectronics Corporation, a semiconductor foundry, provides technology and manufacturing services for applications spanning various sectors of the integrated circuits industry in Asia. The company offers various foundry solutions, including IP and design methodology; process technologies; the manufacture of wafers; and test services and package solutions. It also provides various mask services, such as frame generation, data handling, and jobdeck view. The company was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan.
Capstone Turbine Corp (NASDAQ:CPST) - Capstone Turbine Corporation develops, manufactures, markets, and services turbine generator sets and related parts for use in stationary distributed power generation applications. Its stationary distributed power generation applications include cogeneration combined heat and power (CHP), integrated (CHP), resource recovery, and secure power, as well as combined cooling, heat, and power; and its products are used as battery charging generators for hybrid electric vehicle applications. The company primarily offers microturbine units, subassemblies, and components. It also provides various accessories, including rotary gas compressors with digital controls, heat recovery modules for CHP applications, dual mode controllers that allow automatic transition between grid connect and stand-alone modes, batteries with digital controls for stand-alone/dual-mode operations, power servers for multipacked installations, and protocol converters for Internet access, as well as frames, exhaust ducting, and installation hardware. Further, it remanufactures microturbine engines; and provides after-market parts and services, scheduled and unscheduled maintenance, and factory and on-site training services. The companys microturbines are fueled by various sources, including natural gas, propane, sour gas, landfill or digester gas, kerosene, diesel, and biodiesel. It primarily sells its products directly to end users, as well as through distributors in North America, Asia, Europe, and the Russian Federation. Capstone Turbine Corporation was founded in 1988 and is based in Chatsworth, California.
Ford Motor Co (NYSE:F) - Ford Motor Company primarily develops, manufactures, distributes, and services vehicles and parts worldwide. It operates in two sectors, Automotive and Financial Services. The Automotive sector offers vehicles primarily under the Ford and Lincoln brand names. This sector markets cars, trucks, and parts through retail dealers in North America, and through distributors and dealers outside of North America. It also sells cars and trucks to dealers for sale to fleet customers, including daily rental car companies, commercial fleet customers, leasing companies, and governments. In addition, this sector provides retail customers with a range of after-sale vehicle services and products in the areas, such as maintenance and light repair, heavy repair, collision repair, vehicle accessories, and extended service contracts under the Ford Service, Lincoln Service, Ford Custom Accessories, Ford Extended Service Plan, and Motorcraft brand names. The Financial Services sector offers various automotive financing products to and through automotive dealers. It offers retail financing, which includes retail installment contracts for new and used vehicles; direct financing leases; wholesale financing products that comprise loans to dealers to finance the purchase of vehicle inventory; loans to dealers to finance working capital, purchase real estate dealership, and/or make improvements to dealership facilities; and other financing products, as well as provides insurance services. Ford Motor Company was founded in 1903 and is based in Dearborn, Michigan.
BIOSANTE PHARMACEUTICALS INC (NASDAQ:BPAX) - BioSante Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company, develops products for female sexual health and oncology. Its lead products include LibiGel (transdermal testosterone gel) for the treatment of female sexual dysfunction (FSD), which is in Phase III clinical development under a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) special protocol assessment; and Elestrin (estradiol gel) for the treatment of moderate-to-severe vasomotor symptoms associated with menopause, which is marketed in the U.S. by Azur Pharma, BioSantes licensee. The company is also developing a portfolio of cancer vaccines, three of which have been granted orphan drug designation, and are currently in various Phase II clinical trials. Its other products in development comprise Bio-T-Gel, a testosterone gel for male hypogonadism, or testosterone deficiency in men, which is licensed to Teva Pharmaceuticals; and The Pill-Plus that is a combination of estrogens, progestogens, and androgens for the treatment of female sexual dysfunction in women using oral or transdermal contraceptives, in Phase II clinical development using BioSante patented technology. In addition, the company is developing its calcium phosphate technology for aesthetic medicine, as well as seeking opportunities for its 2A/Furin and other technologies. BioSante Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is based in Lincolnshire, Illinois.
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