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Market Maker Surveillance Report. DNDN, ALKS, WSM, POM, ORCL, SPLS, Bearishly Biased Price Friction For Thursday, March 8th 20

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March 8, 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 3546 companies with "abnormal" market making, 4129 companies with positive Friction Factors and 1810 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. DENDREON CORP (NASDAQ:DNDN), ALKERMES PLC (NASDAQ:ALKS), WILLIAMS-SONOMA, INC. (NYSE:WSM), PEPCO HOLDINGS INC (NYSE:POM), Oracle Corp (NASDAQ:ORCL), STAPLES INC (NASDAQ:SPLS). 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
  DNDN    $-0.720   -6.62%    21,460,870   59.99%    16,253,400   45.43%    5,207,470    Abnormal
  ALKS    $-0.040   -0.23%    5,499,922    52.06%    5,041,611    47.72%    458,311      Abnormal
  WSM     $-1.760   -4.64%    4,647,548    32.41%    3,676,789    25.64%    970,759      Abnormal
  POM     $-0.170   -0.87%    1,257,241    41.67%    798,104      26.45%    459,137      Abnormal
  ORCL    $-0.140   -0.46%    16,696,216   52.15%    15,307,473   47.82%    1,388,743    Abnormal
  SPLS    $-0.020   -0.11%    4,797,633    53.97%    4,091,250    46.02%    706,383      Abnormal

For example, the chart above shows DNDN with 5,207,470 greater shares of buying than selling (NetVol) and the stock price was down $-0.72000. 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.

DENDREON CORP (NASDAQ:DNDN) - Dendreon Corporation, a biotechnology company, engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of therapeutics to enhance cancer treatment options for patients. The company offers active cellular immunotherapy and small molecule product candidates to treat various cancers. Its product candidates comprise Provenge (sipuleucel-T), an active cellular immunotherapy for the treatment of metastatic, castrate-resistant prostate cancer; DN24-02, an investigational active immunotherapy for the treatment of patients with bladder, breast, ovarian, and other solid tumors expressing HER2/neu; and TRPM8, a small molecule agonist to transient receptor potential ion channel, for multiple cancers. The company also has a range of products in preclinical studies, which include Carcinoembryonic antigen for the treatment of lung, colon, and breast cancer; and Carbonic AnhydraseIX for the treatment of kidney cancer. Dendreon Corporation was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

ALKERMES PLC (NASDAQ:ALKS) - Alkermes, Inc., an integrated biotechnology company, provides extended-release injectable and oral products for the treatment of prevalent and chronic diseases, such as central nervous system disorders, reward disorders, addiction, diabetes, and autoimmune disorders. The company develops, manufactures, and commercializes VIVITROL, an injectable medication for the treatment of alcohol dependence; and manufactures RISPERDAL CONSTA for the treatment of schizophrenia and bipolar I disorders. It is also developing BYDUREON, a once weekly formulation of exenatide for the treatment of type 2 diabetes; ALKS 33, an oral opioid modulator for the potential treatment of addiction and other CNS disorders; ALKS 37, an orally active, peripherally-restricted opioid antagonist for the treatment of opioid-induced constipation; ALKS 9070, a once-monthly, injectable, sustained-release version of aripiprazole for the treatment of schizophrenia; ALKS 6931, a long-acting form of a TNF receptor-FC fusion protein for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and related autoimmune diseases; and ALKS 7921, a once-monthly, injectable, and extended-release version of olanzapine for the treatment of schizophrenia. The company has collaborative arrangements with Janssen Pharmaceutica, Inc.; Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Cilag GmbH International; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; and Acceleron Pharma, Inc. Alkermes, Inc. was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

WILLIAMS-SONOMA, INC. (NYSE:WSM) - Williams-Sonoma, Inc. operates as a specialty retailer of home products. It offers culinary and serving equipment, including cookware, cookbooks, cutlery, informal dinnerware, glassware, table linens, specialty foods, and cooking ingredients; and bridal and gift items under the Williams-Sonoma brand name. The company also provides home furnishing categories, including furniture, textiles, decorative accessories, lighting, and tabletop items under West Elm brand; bed and bath products under Pottery Barn brand; and childrens furnishings and accessories under Pottery Barn Kids brand name. Williams-Sonoma, Inc. sells its home products through five retail store concepts, which include Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids, West Elm, and Williams-Sonoma Home; seven direct-mail catalogs that comprise Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids, Pottery Barn Bed and Bath, PBteen, West Elm, and Williams-Sonoma Home; and six e-commerce Websites, which consist of williams-sonoma.com, potterybarn.com, potterybarnkids.com, pbteen.com, westelm.com, and wshome.com. As of January 31, 2010, it operated 610 retail stores, including 259 Williams-Sonoma, 199 Pottery Barn, 87 Pottery Barn Kids, 36 West Elm, 11 Williams-Sonoma Home, and 18 Outlet stores located in 44 states of the United States; Washington, D.C.; Canada; and Puerto Rico. The company was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

PEPCO HOLDINGS INC (NYSE:POM) - Pepco Holdings, Inc. operates as a diversified energy company. It operates in two divisions, Power Delivery and Competitive Energy. The Power Delivery division engages in the transmission, distribution, and supply of electricity; and the delivery and supply of natural gas. This division owns and operates a network of transmission or distribution facilities comprising wires, substations, and other equipment. As of December 31, 2009, it delivered electricity to approximately 1.8 million customers in the mid-Atlantic region and distributed natural gas to approximately 123,000 customers in Delaware. The Competitive Energy division involves in the competitive generation, marketing, and supply of electricity and natural gas; and provision of related energy management services primarily in the mid-Atlantic region. It provides wholesale electric power, capacity, and ancillary services in the wholesale markets and supplies electricity to other wholesale market participants under long and short-term bilateral contracts. This division owned and operated mid-merit plants with a combined 2,250 megawatts (MW) of capacity, peak-load plants with a combined 722 MW of capacity, and base-load generating plants with a combined 340 MW of capacity. It also provides energy savings performance contracting services to federal, state, and local government customers, as well as retail energy supply services to commercial, industrial, and government customers; and designs, constructs, and operates combined heat and power plants, and central energy plants. In addition, this division offers high and low voltage electric construction and maintenance services; and streetlight construction and asset management services to utilities, municipalities, and other customers in the Washington, D.C. area. Further, it owned 3 landfill gas-fired electricity plants with a total generating capacity of 10 MW. The company was founded in 1896 and is based in Washington, District of Columbia.

Oracle Corp (NASDAQ:ORCL) - Oracle Corporation, an enterprise software company, develops, manufactures, markets, distributes, and services database and middleware software, applications software, and hardware systems worldwide. It engages in licensing database and middleware software, including database, application server and application grid, SOA suite and business process management, data migration and integration, business intelligence, identity and access management, content management, portal and user interaction, developer tools, Oracle enterprise manager, and Java platform. The company also offers application software, including enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, enterprise performance management, supply chain management, business intelligence applications, enterprise project portfolio management, and industry-specific applications; and software license updates and product support services. In addition, it provides hardware systems products, such as servers, storage products, Solaris operating system and other hardware-related software, and networking components and products; and hardware systems support services. Further, the company offers consulting services, which include enterprise architecture design and implementation, business/IT strategy alignment, business process simplification, solution integration, and product implementation, enhancements, and upgrades; on demand and advanced customer services; and training services, as well as certification programs. It markets and sells its products directly, as well as through resellers, system integrators/implementers, consultants, education providers, Internet service providers, network integrators, and independent software vendors to various industries, government agencies, and educational institutions. The company has a strategic alliance with Cap Gemini S.A. to market and implement Oracle Revenue Management for public. Oracle was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

STAPLES INC (NASDAQ:SPLS) - Staples, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an office products company. The company sells various office supplies and services, business machines and related products, computers and related products, and office furniture. It also provides high-speed, color and self-service copying, other printing services, faxing, and pack and ship services. As of January 30, 2010, the company operated approximately 2,243 superstores in 48 states and the District of Columbia in the United States, and 10 provinces and 2 territories in Canada, as well as in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the People's Republic of China, Argentina, and Australia. It also operated 125 distribution and fulfillment centers in 29 states in the United States and 8 provinces in Canada, as well as in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the People's Republic of China, Argentina, Brazil, and Australia. The company also offers its products through catalogs, Internet, and sales force. Staples, Inc. was founded in 1986 and is based in Framingham, Massachusetts.

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