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Market Maker Surveillance Report. STD, EP, ACAS, AA, SNY, CLWR, Bearishly Biased Price Friction For Wednesday, May 16th 2012

^{Published on 2012-05-16 18:01:00 - WOPRAI}
 

May 16, 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 3836 companies with "abnormal" market making, 1806 companies with positive Friction Factors and 4019 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. Banco Santander SA (NYSE:STD), El Paso Corp (NYSE:EP), AMERICAN CAPITAL, LIMITED (NASDAQ:ACAS), ALCOA INC. (NYSE:AA), SANOFI-AVENTIS-ADR (NYSE:SNY), Clearwire Corp (NASDAQ:CLWR). 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
  STD     $-0.160   -2.75%    21,586,884   40.72%    10,264,549   19.36%    11,322,335   Abnormal
  EP      $-0.010   -0.04%    3,736,306    37.22%    2,335,891    23.27%    1,400,415    Abnormal
  ACAS    $-0.140   -1.51%    2,993,747    64.32%    1,660,405    35.67%    1,333,342    Abnormal
  AA      $-0.180   -2.07%    8,769,138    29.01%    7,673,232    25.39%    1,095,906    Abnormal
  SNY     $-0.210   -0.62%    6,103,950    48.91%    3,088,335    24.74%    3,015,615    Abnormal
  CLWR    $-0.050   -4.20%    15,945,328   57.99%    11,542,853   41.98%    4,402,475    Abnormal

For example, the chart above shows STD with 11,322,335 greater shares of buying than selling (NetVol) and the stock price was down $-0.16000. 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.

Banco Santander SA (NYSE:STD) - Banco Santander, S.A. provides various financial products and services in Spain, the United Kingdom, Portugal, other European countries, Brazil, Latin America, and the United States. It operates through three segments: Retail Banking, Global Wholesale Banking, and Asset Management and Insurance. The Retail Banking segment offers a range of deposit products, including savings, current, demand, time, and notice deposits, as well as international and domestic interbank deposits; and loan products and services, such as auto financing, personal loans, mortgages, and leasing and renting. This segment also offers credit cards, automated cash dispensers, savings books updaters, telephone banking, and electronic and Internet banking. The Global Wholesale Banking segment provides corporate banking, treasury, and investment banking services. Its products and services include cash management, trade finance, and basic financing; corporate finance for mergers and acquisitions, and asset and capital structuring; and origination activities, risk management, and distribution of structured products and debt. This segment also engages in the trading and distribution of equities. The Asset Management and Insurance segment involves in the design and management of mutual and pension funds, and insurance products. As of September 30, 2010, Banco Santander had 6,075 branch offices in Continental Europe; 1,328 branches in the United Kingdom; 5,784 branches in Latin America; and 723 branches in the Sovereign. The company was formerly known as Banco Santander Central Hispano SA and changed its name to Banco Santander, S.A. in 2007. Banco Santander, S.A. was founded in 1857 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.

El Paso Corp (NYSE:EP) - El Paso Corporation operates in the natural gas transmission, and exploration and production sectors of the energy industry primarily in the United States. It offers natural gas transmission services to a range of customers, including natural gas producers, marketers, and end-users, as well as other natural gas transmission, distribution, and electric generation companies through its interests in approximately 42,000 miles of interstate pipeline system. The company also operates approximately 230 billion cubic feet of storage capacity, and an LNG receiving terminal and related facilities in Elba Island, Georgia. El Paso also focuses on the exploration, acquisition, development, and production of natural gas, oil, and natural gas liquids in the United States, Brazil, and Egypt. As of December 31, 2009, it held an estimated 2.75 trillion cubic feet of natural gas equivalents of proved natural gas and oil reserves. El Paso Corporation has a joint venture agreement with AGL Resources Inc. to distribute liquefied natural gas (LNG) across the southeastern United States to the heavy-duty transportation market. The company was founded in 1928 and is based in Houston, Texas.

AMERICAN CAPITAL, LIMITED (NASDAQ:ACAS) - American Capital, Ltd. is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in management and employee buyouts, mezzanine, acquisition, recapitalization, middle market, and growth capital investments. The firm seeks to invest in senior debt mezzanine and equity financing for buyouts of private equity firms and direct in private and public companies. It also invests in special situations and in government. In special situations, the firm invests in troubled situations and in distressed situations. In this area, it invests in acquisitions of true turnarounds, 363 auctions, portfolio add-ons, operationally challenged companies; financings in exit, ABL loans, second lien refinance, and direct lending to distressed companies. The firm invests in manufacturing, services, and distribution companies with a special focus on energy sector. In energy production sector, the firm invests in lower risk oil and gas exploration, production and development; natural gas liquids; coal mining and coal-fired generation; uranium mining and nuclear-fired generation; wind-powered generation; and solar-powered generation. In energy transmission sector, the firm invests in oil and gas pipelines; LNG tankers and regasification facilities; and power transmission. In energy distribution sector, it targets propane distribution; gas distribution; electricity distribution. In energy services sector, the firm invests in oil and gas services and utility services. The firm also targets investments in companies that provide services or products to federal, state or local governments. It seeks to invest in information technology, human resources/benefit administration, outsourcing, transaction processing, engineering and construction, logistics, original equipment manufacturers homeland security and component, after market parts and supplies, and technology. It invests as lead or participative investor. The firm and its affiliates invest from $5 million to $300 million per company in North America and 5 million ($6.92520 million) to 25 million ($34.6260 million) per company in Europe. It invests in companies with at least $4 million in EBITDA. American Capital, Ltd. was founded in 1986 and is based in Bethesda, Maryland with additional offices in United States, Europe, and Asia.

ALCOA INC. (NYSE:AA) - Alcoa, Inc. engages in the production and management of aluminum, fabricated aluminum, and alumina. The company operates in four segments: Alumina, Primary Metals, Flat-Rolled Products, and Engineered Products and Solutions. The Alumina segment engages in mining of bauxite, which is then refined into alumina. The Primary Metals segment produces aluminum. The Flat-Rolled Products segment engages in the production and sale of aluminum plate, sheet, and foil. The Engineered Products and Solutions segment produces and sells titanium, aluminum, and super alloy investment castings, hard alloy extrusions, forgings and fasteners, aluminum wheels, integrated aluminum structural systems, and architectural extrusions. Its products are used in aircraft, automobiles, commercial transportation, packaging, building and construction, oil and gas, defense, and industrial applications. The company holds interests in bauxite mining activities. It operates primarily in the United States, Australia, Spain, Brazil, the Netherlands, Norway, France, Hungary, Italy, the United Kingdom, Russia, and Germany. Alcoa, Inc. was founded in 1888 and is based in New York, New York.

SANOFI-AVENTIS-ADR (NYSE:SNY) - Sanofi-Aventis, a healthcare company, engages in the discovery, development, and distribution of therapeutic solutions to improve the lives of everyone. It offers a range of healthcare assets, including a broad-based product portfolio in prescription drugs, OTC/OTX, generics, vaccines, and animal health. The company also has exclusive worldwide license to develop, manufacture, and commercialize antibody drug conjugate (ADC) products for the treatment of cancer. Sanofi-Aventis has a strategic alliance with Scripps Genomic Medicine for the purpose of research and development initiatives in the field of individualized medicine; and with Avila Therapeutics, Inc. to discover targeted covalent drugs for the treatment of cancers, as well as a joint venture with Hangzhou Minsheng Pharmaceutical Group Co. Ltd. to develop non-prescription drugs in China. The company was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Clearwire Corp (NASDAQ:CLWR) - Clearwire Corporation, through its subsidiaries, builds and operates mobile broadband networks that provide high-speed residential and mobile Internet access services and residential voice services in communities in the United States. It offers wireless broadband and mobile broadband services, as well as voice over Internet protocol telephony services for homes and offices. The company also leases residential modems, as well as sells modems and personal computer cards. As of December 31, 2009, the company operated in 61 markets in the United States and Europe, covering an estimated 44.7 million people, and had approximately 642,000 retail and 46,000 wholesale subscribers. It markets its products and services directly to consumers, as well as through cellular retailers, consumer electronics stores, satellite television dealers, and computer sales and repair stores. Clearwire Corporation also markets its products and services through company-operated retail outlets. The company, formerly known as WiMAX Operations of Sprint Nextel Corporation, is headquartered in Kirkland, Washington. Clearwire Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Sprint HoldCo, LLC.

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