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Market Maker Surveillance Report. PFE, BAC, MRVL, BMC, T, QQQ, Bullishly Biased Price Friction For Wednesday, April 25th 2012


Published on 2012-04-25 18:00:50 - WOPRAI
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April 25, 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 3714 companies with "abnormal" market making, 3858 companies with positive Friction Factors and 1891 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), BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION (NYSE:BAC), MARVELL TECHNOLOGY GROUP LTD (NASDAQ:MRVL), BMC SOFTWARE INC (NASDAQ:BMC), AT&T INC (NYSE:T), (NASDAQ:QQQ). 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     $0.250    1.10%     7,989,451    26.09%    9,648,417    31.51%    -1,658,966   Abnormal
  BAC     $0.050    0.61%     46,436,532   28.44%    54,172,070   33.18%    -7,735,538   Abnormal
  MRVL    $0.320    2.17%     5,505,762    41.37%    7,494,399    56.32%    -1,988,637   Abnormal
  BMC     $0.430    1.06%     1,161,278    46.49%    3,331,204    133.36%   -2,169,926   Abnormal
  T       $0.020    0.06%     6,635,757    23.35%    11,513,745   40.51%    -4,877,988   Abnormal
  QQQ     $1.720    2.66%     26,073,085   45.48%    28,124,660   49.06%    -2,051,575   Abnormal
Analysis of the Friction Factor chart above shows that each of the six stocks mentioned above had more selling than buying on Wednesday 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 1,658,966 greater shares of selling than buying (NetVol) and the stock price was up $0.25000. 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.

BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION (NYSE:BAC) - Bank of America Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides banking and financial services to individuals, small- and middle-market businesses, corporations, and governments primarily in the United States and internationally. The companys Deposits segment generates savings accounts, money market savings accounts, certificate of deposits and IRAs, and checking accounts; and Global Card Services segment provides the U.S. consumer and business card, consumer lending, international card and debit card services. Its Home Loans & Insurance segment offers fixed and adjustable-rate first-lien mortgage loans for home purchase and refinancing needs, reverse mortgages, home equity lines of credit, and home equity loans, as well as property, casualty, life, disability, and credit insurance. The companys Global Commercial Banking segment provides commercial loans and commitment facilities, real estate lending, leasing, trade finance, short-term credit, asset-based lending, and indirect consumer loans; and capital management and treasury solutions, such as treasury management, foreign exchange, and short-term investing options. Its Global Banking & Markets segment provides financial products, advisory services, financing, securities clearing, settlement, and custody services; debt and equity underwriting and distribution, merger-related advisory services, and risk management products; and integrated working capital management and treasury solutions. The companys Global Wealth & Investment Management segment offers advisory services, team-based investment advice and guidance, brokerage services, and wealth management solutions, as well as retirement services. Bank of America Corporation serves customers through a network of approximately 5,900 banking centers and 18,000 automated teller machines. The company was founded in 1874 and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

MARVELL TECHNOLOGY GROUP LTD (NASDAQ:MRVL) - Marvell Technology Group Ltd. designs, develops, and markets analog, mixed-signal, and digital signal processing and embedded microprocessor integrated circuits. The company offers storage products, including storage system-on-a-chip, read channel, hard disk controller, tape drive controllers, solid-state drive controllers, and storage-system products for hard disk drives, tape drive electronics, optical disk drives, solid-state flash drives, and storage subsystems technology; and switching products comprising Prestera switch family, Link Street multi-port integrated switch family, and Link Street gateway products. It also provides communications controller and embedded processor products, such as Discovery Innovation, Discovery system controllers, Horizon WAN communication controllers, Kirkwood embedded processor, and Orion embedded processor; and enterprise transceiver and PC connectivity products consisting of Alaska and Alaska X 10 Gigabit Ethernet transceiver families, Fast Ethernet transceiver family, and Yukon Gigabit Ethernet PC connectivity products. In addition, the company offers cellular and applications processor products that include communications processors, applications processors, and ecosystem partners; wireless and personal area networking products, such as Libertas wireless LAN family and Avastar multi-function wireless networking family; printing ASIC products; and digital video processing products. It also provides power management and green technology products, including DSP switcher integrated regulators, analog switching regulators, and digital PFC controllers. Marvell serves business enterprise, consumer electronics, and emerging markets primarily in the United States, Canada, China, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Hamilton, Bermuda.

BMC SOFTWARE INC (NASDAQ:BMC) - BMC Software, Inc. develops software that provides system and service management, and automation solutions primarily for enterprises in the United States and internationally. The companys Enterprise Service Management segment offers service assurance solutions that manage event management, service impact management, capacity management, and end user experience management; service automation solutions comprising server and application provisioning, the management of configuration settings and changes, and the compliance with configuration policies; service support that manages service desk, incident management, problem management, asset management, service level management, change and release management, and identity management; and BMC Atrium, which provides shared technologies that unify data and processes from disparate management tools, and assigns priorities to business services. Its Mainframe Service Management segment provides mainframe data and performance management solutions that ensure the availability and reliability of the business critical data, applications, and system; and enterprise scheduling and output management solutions comprising CONTROL-M product line, a set of features enabling data centers to automate their complex workloads and critical business processes. The company also offers consulting, implementation, integration, IT process design and re-engineering, and educational services related to its software products. It primary serves manufacturers, telecommunication companies, financial service providers, educational institutions, retailers, distributors, hospitals, service providers, government agencies, and channel partners, including resellers, distributors, and system integrators. The company was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

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.

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