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Market Maker Surveillance Report. S, ACAS, CAR, HTZ, CLWR, GEN, Bearishly Biased Price Friction For Thursday, February 16th 20

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February 16, 2012 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for Thursday. 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 Thursday there were 3543 companies with "abnormal" market making, 4166 companies with positive Friction Factors and 2078 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. SPRINT NEXTEL CORP (NYSE:S), AMERICAN CAPITAL, LIMITED (NASDAQ:ACAS), Avis Budget Group Inc (NYSE:CAR), Hertz Global Holdings Inc (NYSE:HTZ), Clearwire Corp (NASDAQ:CLWR), GENON ENERGY INC (NYSE:GEN). 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
     S          $-0.010      -0.58%       21,837,310      34.53%       19,380,945      30.65%       2,456,365       Abnormal
     ACAS       $-0.280      -3.16%       4,907,993       57.86%       3,563,558       42.01%       1,344,435       Abnormal
     CAR        $-1.940      -13.30%      7,632,105       59.15%       4,921,093       38.14%       2,711,012       Abnormal
     HTZ        $-0.650      -4.45%       5,039,984       34.62%       4,033,454       27.71%       1,006,530       Abnormal
     CLWR       $-0.200      -8.67%       12,755,145      58.08%       8,974,354       40.87%       3,780,791       Abnormal
     GEN        $-0.010      -0.44%       3,056,421       42.91%       1,596,924       22.42%       1,459,497       Abnormal

For example, the chart above shows S with 2,456,365 greater shares of buying than selling (NetVol) and the stock price was down $-0.01000. 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.

SPRINT NEXTEL CORP (NYSE:S) - Sprint Nextel Corporation, through its subsidiaries, offers wireless and wireline communications products and services to individual consumers, businesses, government subscribers, and resellers in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The companys Wireless segment provides data transmission services, including mobile productivity applications, such as Internet access, messaging, and email services; wireless photo and video offerings; location-based capabilities comprising asset and fleet management, dispatch services, and navigation tools; and mobile entertainment applications; and local and long distance wireless voice services, voicemail, call waiting, three-way calling, caller identification, directory assistance, and call forwarding services. This segment also provides customized design, development, implementation, and support services for wireless services provided to large companies and government agencies, as well as sells accessories, such as carrying cases, hands-free devices, batteries, battery chargers, and other devices and accessories to subscribers, agents, and other third-party distributors for resale. The companys Wireline segment offers voice and data communications, including domestic and international data communications using various protocols, such as multiprotocol label switching technologies, IP, managed network services, voice over Internet protocol, session initiated protocol, and traditional voice services, as well as offers wholesale voice local and long distance services. This segment markets and sells its services primarily through direct sales representatives. The company offers its wireless and wireline voice and data transmission services under the Sprint, Nextel, Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile, Assurance Wireless, and Common Cents. Sprint Nextel Corporation was founded in 1899 and is headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas.

AMERICAN CAPITAL, LIMITED (NASDAQ:ACAS) - American Capital, Ltd. is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in management and employee buyouts, mezzanine, acquisition, recapitalization, middle market, and growth capital investments. The firm seeks to invest in senior debt mezzanine and equity financing for buyouts of private equity firms and direct in private and public companies. It also invests in special situations and in government. In special situations, the firm invests in troubled situations and in distressed situations. In this area, it invests in acquisitions of true turnarounds, 363 auctions, portfolio add-ons, operationally challenged companies; financings in exit, ABL loans, second lien refinance, and direct lending to distressed companies. The firm invests in manufacturing, services, and distribution companies with a special focus on energy sector. In energy production sector, the firm invests in lower risk oil and gas exploration, production and development; natural gas liquids; coal mining and coal-fired generation; uranium mining and nuclear-fired generation; wind-powered generation; and solar-powered generation. In energy transmission sector, the firm invests in oil and gas pipelines; LNG tankers and regasification facilities; and power transmission. In energy distribution sector, it targets propane distribution; gas distribution; electricity distribution. In energy services sector, the firm invests in oil and gas services and utility services. The firm also targets investments in companies that provide services or products to federal, state or local governments. It seeks to invest in information technology, human resources/benefit administration, outsourcing, transaction processing, engineering and construction, logistics, original equipment manufacturers homeland security and component, after market parts and supplies, and technology. It invests as lead or participative investor. The firm and its affiliates invest from $5 million to $300 million per company in North America and 5 million ($6.92520 million) to 25 million ($34.6260 million) per company in Europe. It invests in companies with at least $4 million in EBITDA. American Capital, Ltd. was founded in 1986 and is based in Bethesda, Maryland with additional offices in United States, Europe, and Asia.

Avis Budget Group Inc (NYSE:CAR) - Avis Budget Group, Inc. provides car and truck rentals, and ancillary services to businesses and consumers in the United States and internationally. The company supplies rental cars to the premium commercial and leisure segments of the travel industry under the Avis brand name; and to the value-conscious segments of the industry under the Budget brand name. It operates or franchises approximately 2,200 rental locations that comprise the Avis car rental system worldwide. The Avis System encompasses locations at various airports and cities in the United States and internationally. The company also operates or franchises approximately 1,800 car rental locations in the Budget System worldwide. In addition, it operates local and one-way truck rental businesses under the Budget trucks brand in the United States. The Budget truck rental business has a combined fleet of approximately 29,000 trucks, which is rented through a network of approximately 2,300 dealers and 250 company-operated locations in the continental United States. As of December 31, 2009, it rental fleet totaled approximately 350,000 vehicles, and completed 23 million vehicle rental transactions in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Latin America, the Caribbean, and parts of Asia. In addition, it engages in the sale and/or rental of supplemental equipment, loss damage waivers, additional/supplemental liability insurance, personal accident/effects insurance, fuel service options, fuel service charges, optional emergency roadside assistance, satellite radio, and electronic toll collection. The company was formerly known as Cendant Corporation and changed its name to Avis Budget Group, Inc. in August 2006. Avis Budget Group was founded in 1946 and is based in Parsippany, New Jersey.

Hertz Global Holdings Inc (NYSE:HTZ) - Hertz Global Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the car and equipment rental businesses worldwide. It operates in two segments, Car Rental and Equipment Rental. The Car Rental segment engages in the ownership and lease of cars. This segment operates car rental locations at or near airports, as well as in central business districts and suburban areas of cities in the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Spain, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, Australia, New Zealand, China, and Brazil. It also operates retail used car sales locations in the United States and France. The Equipment Rental segment rents earthmoving equipment, material handling equipment, aerial and electrical equipment, air compressors, generators, pumps, small tools, compaction equipment, and construction-related trucks. In addition, this segment sells new equipment, and consumables, such as gloves and hardhats. The company also offers claim administration services, such as investigating, evaluating, negotiating, and disposing of various claims, including third-party, first-party, bodily injury, property damage, general liability, and product liability. Hertz Global serves various industries, such as construction, petrochemical, automobile manufacturing, railroad, power generation, and shipbuilding. The company was founded in 1918 and is headquartered in Park Ridge, New Jersey.

Clearwire Corp (NASDAQ:CLWR) - Clearwire Corporation, through its subsidiaries, builds and operates mobile broadband networks that provide high-speed residential and mobile Internet access services and residential voice services in communities in the United States. It offers wireless broadband and mobile broadband services, as well as voice over Internet protocol telephony services for homes and offices. The company also leases residential modems, as well as sells modems and personal computer cards. As of December 31, 2009, the company operated in 61 markets in the United States and Europe, covering an estimated 44.7 million people, and had approximately 642,000 retail and 46,000 wholesale subscribers. It markets its products and services directly to consumers, as well as through cellular retailers, consumer electronics stores, satellite television dealers, and computer sales and repair stores. Clearwire Corporation also markets its products and services through company-operated retail outlets. The company, formerly known as WiMAX Operations of Sprint Nextel Corporation, is headquartered in Kirkland, Washington. Clearwire Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Sprint HoldCo, LLC.

GENON ENERGY INC (NYSE:GEN) - GenOn Energy, Inc. operates as a generator of wholesale electricity in the United States. Its portfolio of power generation facilities include baseload, intermediate, and peaking units using coal, natural gas, and oil to generate electricity. The company owns, contracts, or operates approximately 49 power generation stations with generation capacity of 24,599 megawatts. The company was formerly known as Mirant Corporation and changed its name to GenOn Energy, Inc. on December 4, 2010. The company is based in Houston, Texas.

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