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Market Maker Surveillance Report. PFE, C, XOM, EMC, HAL, NVS, Bullishly Biased Price Friction For Tuesday, February 21st 2012


Published on 2012-02-21 18:00:58 - WOPRAI
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February 21, 2012 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for Tuesday. 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 Tuesday there were 3893 companies with "abnormal" market making, 3054 companies with positive Friction Factors and 3238 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top companies with Abnormal Price Friction (bullish bias) in their stock prices. This means that there was more selling than buying in the stocks and their stock prices rose. PFIZER INC (NYSE:PFE), CITIGROUP INC (NYSE:C), EXXON MOBIL CORP (NYSE:XOM), EMC CORPORATION (NYSE:EMC), HALLIBURTON CO (NYSE:HAL), Novus Energy Inc (NYSE:NVS). 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
     PFE        $0.030       0.14%        6,420,074       27.71%       8,496,285       36.67%       -2,076,211      Abnormal
     C          $0.450       1.37%        12,131,439      26.90%       16,759,865      37.17%       -4,628,426      Abnormal
     XOM        $0.530       0.62%        3,435,449       22.51%       5,122,968       33.56%       -1,687,519      Abnormal
     EMC        $0.150       0.55%        4,053,924       25.64%       5,600,010       35.42%       -1,546,086      Abnormal
     HAL        $0.740       2.04%        4,795,642       26.49%       7,305,803       40.35%       -2,510,161      Abnormal
     NVS        $0.570       1.01%        1,142,656       19.56%       3,251,970       55.67%       -2,109,314      Abnormal
Analysis of the Friction Factor chart above shows that each of the six stocks mentioned above had more selling than buying on Tuesday and their stock prices rose. 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 PFE with 2,076,211 greater shares of selling than buying (NetVol) and the stock price was up $0.03000. This means the Market Makers were trading the stock in a way inconsistent with normal supply and demand (Economics 101); more selling than buying should cause prices to drop.

PFIZER INC (NYSE:PFE) - Pfizer Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, offers prescription medicines for humans and animals worldwide. The company's Biopharmaceutical segments provides Lipitor for elevated LDL-cholesterol levels in the blood; Enbrel for rheumatoid arthritis, polyarticular juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, plaque psoriasis, and ankylosing spondylitis; Lyrica for post-herpetic neuralgia, diabetic peripheral neuropathy, fibromyalgia, neuropathic pain, adjunctive treatment of epilepsy, and general anxiety disorder, as well as for use as an adjunctive therapy for adult patients with partial onset seizures; Prevnar/Prevenar for invasive pneumococcal disease; Celebrex for osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis, and acute pain; Viagra for erectile dysfunction; Xalabrands for reducing elevated eye pressure; Effexor XR for depressive, generalized anxiety, social anxiety, and panic disorders; and Norvasc for hypertension. It also offers Zyvox for gram-positive pathogens; Premarin for menopausal symptoms; Sutent for renal cell carcinoma; Geodon/Zeldox for schizophrenia; Detrol/Detrol LA for overactive bladder; Zosyn/Tazocin, an intravenous antibiotic; Genotropin for growth hormone deficiency; Vfend, an antifungal agent; and Protonix for gastroesophageal reflux disease; Chantix/Champix for aid smoking cessation; BeneFIX, ReFacto AF, and Xyntha for lifelong bleeding disorder; Caduet for cardiovascular events; Revatio for pulmonary arterial hypertension; Pristiq for depressive disorder; Aricept for Alzheimers disease; and Spiriva for breathing problems. The companys Diversified segment offers animal health products, such as vaccines, anti-infectives, anti-inflammatories, antiemetics, and parasiticides; consumer healthcare products, such as dietary supplements, pain management, respiratory, and personal care; nutrition products; and gelatin, liquid, softgel, non-animal, and fish gelatin capsules. Pfizer Inc. was founded in 1849 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

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.

EXXON MOBIL CORP (NYSE:XOM) - Exxon Mobil Corporation engages in the exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas, and manufacture of petroleum products, as well as transportation and sale of crude oil, natural gas, and petroleum products. The company manufactures and markets commodity petrochemicals, including olefins, aromatics, polyethylene and polypropylene plastics, and other specialty products. As of December 31, 2010, it operated 35,691 gross and 30,494 net operated wells. The company has operations in the United States, Canada/South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia/Oceania. Exxon Mobil Corporation was founded in 1870 and is based in Irving, Texas.

EMC CORPORATION (NYSE:EMC) - EMC Corporation develops, delivers, and supports information infrastructure and virtual infrastructure technologies and solutions. The companys Information Storage segment offers networked information storage systems and software, which are deployed in storage area network (SAN), networked attached storage (NAS), unified storage combining NAS and SAN, content addressed storage, and direct attached storage environments. Its Content Management and Archiving segment provides software, which optimizes business processes, as well as creates, manages, delivers, and archives information from documents and discussions, e-mail, Web pages, images, XML, reports, records, rich media, and application data. The companys RSA Information Security segment delivers products, packaged solutions, and services to guard the integrity and confidentiality of information throughout its lifecycle. This segment offers solutions in identity assurance and access control, data loss prevention, encryption and key management, compliance and security information management, and fraud protection. Its principal products include RSA enVision, the RSA Data Loss Prevention (DLP) 7.0 Suite, RSA Share Project, and the RSA Adaptive Authentication platform. EMC Corporations VMware Virtual Infrastructure business offers virtual infrastructure solutions and services to address a range of IT problems that include cost and operational inefficiencies, business continuity, software lifecycle management, and desktop management. The company also provides consulting, technology deployment, managed, customer support, and training and certification services. It sells its products and services through direct sales and multiple distribution channels in North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, South Africa, and the Asia Pacific. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.

HALLIBURTON CO (NYSE:HAL) - Halliburton Company provides various products and services to the energy industry for the exploration, development, and production of oil and natural gas worldwide. It operates in two segments, Completion and Production, and Drilling and Evaluation. The Completion and Production segment offers production enhancement services, completion tools and services, cementing services, and Boots & Coots. Its production enhancement services include stimulation and sand control services; completion tools and services comprise subsurface safety valves and flow control equipment, surface safety systems, packers and specialty completion equipment, intelligent completion systems, expandable liner hanger systems, sand control systems, well servicing tools, and reservoir performance services; cementing services consist of bonding the well and well casing, while isolating fluid zones and maximizing wellbore stability, and casing equipment; and Boots & Coots include well intervention services, pressure control, equipment rental tools and services, and pipeline and process services. The Drilling and Evaluation segment provides field and reservoir modeling, drilling, evaluation, and wellbore placement solutions that enable customers to model, measure, and optimize their well construction activities. Its services comprise fluid services, drilling services, drill bits, wireline and perforating services, testing and subsea services, software and asset solutions, and integrated project management and consulting services. The company serves independent, integrated, and national oil companies. Halliburton Company was founded in 1919 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Novus Energy Inc (NYSE:NVS) - Novartis AG, through its subsidiaries, engages in the research, development, manufacture, and marketing of healthcare products worldwide. Its Pharmaceuticals division offers prescription medicines in various therapeutic areas, including cardiovascular and metabolism; oncology; neuroscience and ophthalmics; respiratory; integrated hospital care; and other additional products. The companys Vaccines and Diagnostics division provides preventive vaccines and diagnostic tools. This division sells influenza, meningococcal, pediatric, and traveler vaccines; and blood testing and molecular diagnostics to prevent the spread of infectious diseases. Its Sandoz division provides prescription medicines, as well as pharmaceutical and biotechnological active substances. This division offers active ingredients and finished dosage forms of medicines; active pharmaceutical ingredients and intermediates, primarily antibiotics; protein or biotechnology-based products; and cytotoxic products, as well as provides biotech manufacturing services to other companies. The companys Consumer Health division consists of three business units: over-the-counter medicines (OTC), Animal Health, and CIBA Vision. OTC unit offers readily available consumer medicines. Animal Health unit provides veterinary products for farm and companion animals. CIBA Vision unit manufactures contact lenses and lens care products. It has strategic partnership with Lonza, a Swiss pharmaceuticals manufacturing company. The company was founded in 1895 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

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