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Market Maker Surveillance Report. LOW, LUK, SNY, ARMH, GEN, QQQ, Bearishly Biased Price Friction For Thursday, May 17th 2012

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May 17, 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 3350 companies with "abnormal" market making, 1306 companies with positive Friction Factors and 4970 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. LOWE'S COS INC (NYSE:LOW), LEUCADIA NATIONAL CORP (NYSE:LUK), SANOFI-AVENTIS-ADR (NYSE:SNY), ARM HOLDINGS PLC-SPONS ADR (NASDAQ:ARMH), GENON ENERGY INC (NYSE:GEN), (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
  LOW     $-0.670   -2.29%    5,958,604    30.38%    4,277,492    21.81%    1,681,112    Abnormal
  LUK     $-0.050   -0.23%    3,847,860    62.80%    715,479      11.68%    3,132,381    Abnormal
  SNY     $-0.120   -0.35%    4,286,283    46.49%    2,410,291    26.14%    1,875,992    Abnormal
  ARMH    $-0.670   -2.91%    4,428,873    59.33%    2,958,948    39.64%    1,469,925    Abnormal
  GEN     $-0.100   -4.93%    6,362,502    41.82%    3,222,667    21.18%    3,139,835    Abnormal
  QQQ     $-1.370   -2.18%    32,366,923   52.98%    28,322,431   46.36%    4,044,492    Abnormal

For example, the chart above shows LOW with 1,681,112 greater shares of buying than selling (NetVol) and the stock price was down $-0.67000. 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.

LOWE'S COS INC (NYSE:LOW) - Lowe's Companies, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a home improvement retailer in the United States and Canada. The company offers a range of products for home decorating, maintenance, repair, remodeling, and property maintenance. It provides home improvement products in the categories of appliances, paint, lumber, flooring, building materials, millwork, lawn and landscape products, hardware, fashion plumbing, tools, lighting, seasonal living, rough plumbing, nursery, outdoor power equipment, cabinets and countertops, rough electrical, home environment, home organization, and windows and walls, as well as boards, panel products, irrigation pipes, vinyl sidings, and ladders. The company also offers installation services through independent contractors in various product categories. Lowe's Companies serves homeowners and renters primarily consisting of do-it-yourself customers and do-it-for-me customers, as well as others buying for personal and family use; and commercial business customers, who work in the construction, repair/remodel, commercial and residential property management, or business maintenance professions. As of January 29, 2010, it operated 1,710 stores, including 1,694 stores in the United States and 16 stores in Canada. The company also offers its products through electronic product catalogs and Lowes.com. Lowe's Companies, Inc. was founded in 1952 and is based in Mooresville, North Carolina.

LEUCADIA NATIONAL CORP (NYSE:LUK) - Leucadia National Corporation engages in manufacturing, telecommunications, land based contract oil and gas drilling, property management and services, gaming entertainment, real estate activities, medical product development, and winery operations in the United States. Its manufacturing operations include remanufacturing dimension lumber, home center boards for large retailers, pine decking, and other specialty wood products, as well as lightweight plastic netting used in building and construction, erosion control, packaging, agricultural, carpet padding, filtration, and consumer products. The companys telecommunications business provides international prepaid phone cards and other telecommunications services in the United States. Its land based contract oil and gas drilling operations include drilling services to the oil and natural gas exploration and production companies in the Mid-Continent Region of the United States. Its property management and services business offers property management and other services to vacation properties in beach and mountain resort locations, as well as involves in real estate brokerage services, and other rental and property owner services in resort locations. The companys gaming entertainment operations consist of owning the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Biloxi located in Biloxi, Mississippi. Leucadias real estate activities include commercial properties, residential land development projects, and other unimproved land. The companys medical product development operations comprise the development of MP4OX, which is a solution of cell-free hemoglobin administered intravenously to provide oxygen delivery to oxygen deprived tissues. Its winery operations comprise the production and sale of wines. Further, Leucadia involves in mortgage origination and mortgage servicing business, through its joint venture company, Berkadia Commercial Mortgage LLC. The company was founded in 1854 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.

ARM HOLDINGS PLC-SPONS ADR (NASDAQ:ARMH) - ARM Holdings plc designs microprocessors, physical intellectual property (IP), and related technology and software, as well as sells development tools to enhance the performance of high-volume embedded applications. Its products include 16/32-bit reduced instruction set computing microprocessors cores, including specific functions, such as video and graphics IP and on-chip fabric IP; embedded software that helps in the development of devices; physical IP products for the design and manufacture of integrated circuits comprising SoCs, as well as include embedded memory, standard cell, input/output components, and analog and mixed-signal products; and RealView software development tools that help engineers in the design and deployment of code from applications running on open operating systems to low-level firmware. The company also offers design consulting, support, maintenance, and training services. ARM Holdings plc licenses and sells its technology and products to electronics companies, which in turn manufacture, market, and sell microprocessors, application-specific integrated circuits, and application-specific standard processors to systems companies for incorporation into various end products. It serves customers primarily in Europe, the United States, and the Asia Pacific. The company was formerly known as Advanced RISC Machines Holdings Limited and changed its name to ARM Holdings plc in March 1998. ARM Holdings plc was founded in 1990 and is based in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.

GENON ENERGY INC (NYSE:GEN) - GenOn Energy, Inc. operates as a generator of wholesale electricity in the United States. Its portfolio of power generation facilities include baseload, intermediate, and peaking units using coal, natural gas, and oil to generate electricity. The company owns, contracts, or operates approximately 49 power generation stations with generation capacity of 24,599 megawatts. The company was formerly known as Mirant Corporation and changed its name to GenOn Energy, Inc. on December 4, 2010. The company is based in Houston, Texas.

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