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Market Maker Surveillance Report. MU, JCP, LSI, AIG, ALL, PPL, Bearishly Biased Price Friction For Monday, May 7th 2012

^{Published on 2012-05-07 18:01:52 - WOPRAI}
 

May 7, 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 3801 companies with "abnormal" market making, 2741 companies with positive Friction Factors and 2957 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. MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC (NASDAQ:MU), J.C. PENNEY CO INC (NYSE:JCP), LSI CORP (NYSE:LSI), AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP (NYSE:AIG), ALLSTATE CORP (NYSE:ALL), PPL CORPORATION (NYSE:PPL). 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
  MU      $-0.050   -0.78%    18,750,559   51.25%    17,789,564   48.63%    960,995      Abnormal
  JCP     $-0.250   -0.74%    2,104,271    38.12%    1,259,867    22.82%    844,404      Abnormal
  LSI     $-0.030   -0.38%    2,877,099    39.72%    1,839,201    25.39%    1,037,898    Abnormal
  AIG     $-0.990   -3.02%    58,731,539   38.34%    51,332,844   33.51%    7,398,695    Abnormal
  ALL     $-0.020   -0.04%    2,272,200    35.43%    1,280,063    19.96%    992,137      Abnormal
  PPL     $-0.060   -0.23%    1,526,302    48.57%    678,377      21.59%    847,925      Abnormal

For example, the chart above shows MU with 960,995 greater shares of buying than selling (NetVol) and the stock price was down $-0.05000. 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.

MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC (NASDAQ:MU) - Micron Technology, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and marketing of semiconductor devices worldwide. Its products include dynamic random access memory (DRAM) products that provide data storage and retrieval, which include DDR2 and DDR3; and other specialty DRAM memory products, including DDR, SDRAM, DDR and DDR2 mobile low power DRAM, pseudo-static RAM, and reduced latency DRAM. The company also offers NAND flash memory products, which are electrically re-writeable and non-volatile semiconductor devices that retain content when power is turned off. In addition, it provides NOR flash memory products that are electrically re-writeable and non-volatile semiconductor memory devices; phase change memory products; and image sensor products. Micron Technologys products are used in a range of electronic applications, including personal computers, workstations, network servers, mobile phones, flash memory cards, USB storage devices, digital still cameras, MP3/4 players, and in automotive applications. It sells its products to original equipment manufacturers and retailers through internal sales force, independent sales representatives, and distributors, as well as through a Web-based customer direct sales channel. The company was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Boise, Idaho.

J.C. PENNEY CO INC (NYSE:JCP) - J. C. Penney Company, Inc., through its subsidiary, J. C. Penney Corporation, Inc., operates a network of department stores in the United States and Puerto Rico. It sells family apparel and footwear, accessories, fine and fashion jewelry, beauty products, and home furnishings. The company also provides various services, such as styling salon, optical, portrait photography, and custom decorating. It sells its products through department stores and catalogs, as well as through the Internet at jcp.com. As of January 30, 2010, the companys distribution network included 13 merchandise distribution centers, 5 regional warehouses, and 4 direct fulfillment centers. As of March 29, 2010, it operated 1,100 department stores. The company was founded in 1902 and is based in Plano, Texas.

LSI CORP (NYSE:LSI) - LSI Corporation designs, develops, and markets storage and networking semiconductors and storage systems. Its Semiconductor segment offers integrated circuits for hard disk and tape drive solutions, including systems-on-a-chip, read channels, pre-amplifiers, serial physical interfaces, and hard disk controllers, as well as custom firmware; and magnetic and optical disk drives, and disk and tape-based storage systems. Its hard disk and tape drive electronics are used to store and retrieve data in personal computers, corporate network servers, archive/back-up devices, and consumer electronics products, such as digital video recorders, game consoles, and digital media players. This segment also offers networking solutions that include chips, such as network processors, digital signal processors, content-inspection processors, traffic shaping devices, and physical layer devices, as well as software, evaluation systems, and reference designs for office, home, and small-to-medium business applications. The companys Storage Systems segment provides a line of open, modular storage products that comprises complete systems and sub-assemblies, such as storage controller modules, disk drive enclosure modules, related management software, and data protection software for creating local and remote copies of critical data. Its products and solutions are used in various open operating systems, such as Windows, UNIX and UNIX variants, and Linux environments. This segments products serve Internet-based applications, such as online transaction processing and e-commerce, data warehousing, file serving, video editing and post-production, and computing. The company operates in the North America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. LSI Corporation serves original equipment manufacturers through a network of direct sales, and marketing and field engineering offices. The company, formerly known as LSI Logic Corporation, was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Milpitas, California.

AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP (NYSE:AIG) - American International Group, Inc. is an international insurance organization. The company operates property and casualty insurance networks worldwide and conducts activities in the U.S. life insurance and retirement services industry. It also involves in commercial aircraft leasing and residential mortgage guaranty insurance businesses. The company, through Chartis Inc., provides various property and casualty insurance products under commercial and consumer categories worldwide. These products include surplus lines, executive liability/directors and officers liability, employment practices, excess casualty, and travel/assistance lines. American International Group, through SunAmerica Financial Group, offers a suite of life insurance and retirement products and services, including term life, universal life, accident and health, fixed and variable deferred annuities, fixed payout annuities, mutual funds, and financial planning products and services to individuals and groups in the United States. The company, through International Lease Finance Corporation, operates as an aircraft lessor that acquires commercial jet aircraft from various manufacturers and other parties, and leases those aircraft to airlines worldwide. It also sells aircraft from its fleet to other leasing companies, financial services companies, and airlines, as well as provides management services to third-party owners of aircraft portfolios. American International Group, through United Guaranty Corporation, issues residential mortgage guaranty insurance that covers mortgage lenders from the first loss for credit defaults on high loan-to-value conventional first-lien mortgages for the purchase or refinance of one- to four-family residences in the U.S. and internationally. The company was founded in 1967 and is based in New York, New York.

ALLSTATE CORP (NYSE:ALL) - The Allstate Corporation, through its subsidiaries, engages in the personal property and casualty insurance business, as well as in the life insurance, retirement, and investment products business in the United States and Canada. Its Allstate Protection segment sells private passenger auto and homeowners insurance products under the Allstate and Encompass brand names primarily through agencies. This segment also provides business insurance products; motorcycle, boat, renter, and condominium insurance products; insurance and non-insurance products sold primarily to auto dealers; retail and wholesale roadside assistance products; and insurance agency services. The companys Allstate Financial segment provides life insurance, retirement and investment products, and voluntary accident and health insurance products to individual and institutional customers. Its principal individual products comprise deferred and immediate fixed annuities; interest-sensitive, traditional, and variable life insurance; and voluntary accident and health insurance. This segment also offers institutional products that include funding agreements sold to unaffiliated trusts. In addition, it provides various banking products and services consisting of certificates of deposit, money market accounts, savings accounts, checking accounts, and agency loans. This segment markets its products through multiple intermediary distribution channels, including Allstate exclusive agencies and financial specialists, independent agents, banks, broker-dealers, and specialized structured settlement brokers. The company was founded in 1931 and is based in Northbrook, Illinois.

PPL CORPORATION (NYSE:PPL) - PPL Corporation, through its subsidiaries, generates and markets electricity to approximately 4 million retail, commercial, and industrial customers in the northeastern and western United States and the United Kingdom. It generates energy from various fuel sources, including uranium, coal, natural gas, oil, and water. As of December 31, 2009, the company operated 371 substations with a total capacity of approximately 30 million kVA; 33,053 circuit miles of overhead lines; and 7,310 cable miles of underground conductors in Pennsylvania. Its distribution system in the United Kingdom included 651 substations with a total capacity of 25 million kVA; 28,877 miles of overhead lines; and 23,896 cable miles of underground conductors. The company was founded in 1920 and is headquartered in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

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