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Market Maker Surveillance Report. DRYS, MYL, ATVI, ORCL, RF, AAXJ, Bearishly Biased Price Friction For Monday, March 19th 2012

^{Published on 2012-03-19 18:00:54 - WOPRAI}
 

March 19, 2012 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for Monday. 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 Monday there were 3770 companies with "abnormal" market making, 3620 companies with positive Friction Factors and 2443 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. DRYSHIPS INC (NASDAQ:DRYS), MYLAN INC (NASDAQ:MYL), ACTIVISION BLIZZARD INC (NASDAQ:ATVI), Oracle Corp (NASDAQ:ORCL), REGIONS FINANCIAL CORP (NYSE:RF), ISHARES MSCI ASIA EX-JAPAN (NASDAQ:AAXJ). 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
  DRYS    $-0.080   -2.20%    5,664,084    54.95%    4,546,020    44.10%    1,118,064    Abnormal
  MYL     $-0.020   -0.09%    3,867,310    70.22%    1,627,715    29.56%    2,239,595    Abnormal
  ATVI    $-0.130   -1.03%    7,678,812    54.21%    6,478,039    45.73%    1,200,773    Abnormal
  ORCL    $-0.540   -1.82%    16,724,974   51.43%    15,442,148   47.49%    1,282,826    Abnormal
  RF      $-0.030   -0.47%    15,726,541   32.42%    13,657,786   28.16%    2,068,755    Abnormal
  AAXJ    $-0.170   -0.30%    4,639,288    64.07%    2,602,055    35.93%    2,037,233    Abnormal

For example, the chart above shows DRYS with 1,118,064 greater shares of buying than selling (NetVol) and the stock price was down $-0.08000. 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.

DRYSHIPS INC (NASDAQ:DRYS) - DryShips, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the ownership and operation of drybulk carriers and drilling rigs that operate worldwide. Its drybulk fleet principally carries various drybulk commodities, including bulk items comprising coal, iron ore, and grains; and minor bulk items, such as bauxite, phosphate, fertilizers, and steel products. The company owns and operates a fleet of 39 drybulk carriers consisting of 7 Capesize, 28 Panamax, 2 Supramax vessels, and 2 Panamax newbuilding vessels with a combined deadweight tonnage of approximately 3.5 million dwt; and 12 tankers comprising 6 Suezmax and 6 Aframax with a combined deadweight tonnage of approximately 1.6 million tons. DryShips, Inc., through its subsidiary, Ocean Rig UDW, Inc., also owns and operates 6 offshore ultra deepwater drilling units comprising 2 ultra deepwater semisubmersible drilling rigs and 4 ultra deepwater drillships, of which 3 would be delivered to the company during 2011. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Athens, Greece.

MYLAN INC (NASDAQ:MYL) - Mylan Inc. and its subsidiaries engage in the development, manufacture, marketing, licensing, and distribution of generic and branded generic pharmaceuticals, specialty pharmaceuticals, and active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) worldwide. It operates in two segments, Generics and Specialty. The Generics segment offers generic or branded generic pharmaceutical products in tablet, capsule, or transdermal patch form, as well as APIs. This segment markets its products for the proprietary and ethical pharmaceutical wholesalers and distributors, drug store chains, drug manufacturers, institutions, and public and governmental agencies located primarily in the United States and Canada, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Australia, Japan, India, and New Zealand. The Specialty segment provides branded specialty nebulized, injectable, and transdermal products for life-threatening conditions. Its principal products comprise EpiPen that is used for the treatment of severe allergies; and Perforomist Inhalation Solution, a long-acting beta2-adrenergic agonist indicated for the maintenance treatment of bronchoconstriction in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients. This segment markets its products to the pharmaceutical wholesalers and distributors located primarily in the United States. Additionally, Mylan manufactures and supplies APIs for the manufacture of anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs, which are utilized in the treatment of HIV/AIDS; and offers a line of finished dosage form (FDF) products in both the ARV and non-ARV markets. The company was formerly known as Mylan Laboratories Inc. and changed its name to Mylan Inc. in October 2007. Mylan was founded in 1961 and is based in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.

ACTIVISION BLIZZARD INC (NASDAQ:ATVI) - Activision Blizzard, Inc., through its subsidiaries, publishes online, personal computer (PC), console, and handheld games worldwide. The company develops and publishes PC-based computer games and maintains its proprietary online-game related service, Battle.net. It publishes interactive software products and peripherals. Its products cover various game categories, such as action/adventure, action sports, racing, role-playing, simulation, first-person action, music, and strategy. Activisions products comprise Monsters vs. Aliens, Guitar Hero, X-Men Origins, PROTOTYPE, Transformers, Ice Age, Wolfenstein, Marvel Ultimate Alliance, Bakugan Battle Brawlers, DJ Hero, Band Hero, Call of Duty, Tony Hawk, Guitar Hero, Three map packs for Call of Duty, True Crime, Spider-Man, Bakugan, Blur, and Singularity. Its customers include retail outlets and distributors, including mass-market retailers, consumer electronics stores, discount warehouses, and game specialty stores. Activision Blizzard, Inc. is based in Santa Monica, California.

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.

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.

ISHARES MSCI ASIA EX-JAPAN (NASDAQ:AAXJ) - iShares Trust iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan Index Fund

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