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Market Maker Surveillance Report. C, LUK, YHOO, TC, AAPT, FB, Highest Net Buy Volume With Lowest Price Friction For Wednesday,

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May 23, 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 3832 companies with "abnormal" market making, 2538 companies with positive Friction Factors and 2943 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top companies with the highest net buy volume on Wednesday and lowest price Friction (bullish). This means that there was more buying than selling in the stocks and their stock prices rose faster with less Friction. CITIGROUP INC (NYSE:C), LEUCADIA NATIONAL CORP (NYSE:LUK), YAHOO! INC (NASDAQ:YHOO), THOMPSON CREEK METALS CO INC (NYSE:TC), ALL AMERICAN PET CO INC (OTC:AAPT), (:FB). 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
  C       $0.180    0.67%     15,118,852   31.17%    12,846,198   26.49%    2,272,654    126,259 
  LUK     $0.130    0.61%     2,929,287    66.80%    526,137      12.00%    2,403,150    184,858 
  YHOO    $0.040    0.26%     10,015,930   55.37%    8,070,133    44.61%    1,945,797    486,449 
  TC      $0.190    5.19%     3,274,849    66.00%    614,818      12.39%    2,660,031    140,002 
  AAPT    $0.017    56.67%    6,733,424    74.11%    2,352,273    25.89%    4,381,151    2,577,148
  FB      $1.180    3.81%     38,665,193   52.58%    34,431,764   46.83%    4,233,429    35,877  

For example, the chart above shows C with a Net Buy Volume of 2,272,654 shares and a Friction Factor of 126,259 shares. That means that it takes 126,259 more shares of buying than selling to move C higher by one penny. This means the Market Makers are allowing the stock to move up higher as of Wednesday (lower friction). And with one of the highest Net Buy Volumes, the combination of low friction and high net buy volume is bullish.

CITIGROUP INC (NYSE:C) - Citigroup, Inc., a global financial services company, provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a range of financial products and services. The company operates through two segments, Citicorp and Citi Holdings. The Citicorp segment operates as a global bank for businesses and consumers with two primary businesses, Regional Consumer Banking and Institutional Clients Group. The Regional Consumer Banking business provides traditional banking services, including retail banking, and branded cards in North America, Asia, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The Institutional Clients Group business provides securities and banking services comprising investment banking and advisory services, lending, debt and equity sales and trading, institutional brokerage, foreign exchange, structured products, cash instruments and related derivatives, and private banking; and transaction services consisting of treasury and trade solutions, and securities and fund services. The Citi Holdings segment operates Brokerage and Asset Management, Local Consumer Lending, and Special Asset Pool businesses. The Brokerage and Asset Management Business, through its 49% stake in Morgan Stanley Smith Barney joint venture and Nikko Cordial Securities, offers retail brokerage and asset management services. The Local Consumer Lending business provides residential mortgage loans, retail partner card loans, personal loans, commercial real estate, and other consumer loans, as well as western European cards and retail banking services. The Special Asset Pool business is a portfolio of securities, loans, and other assets. Citigroup Inc. has approximately 200 million customer accounts and operates in approximately 160 countries. The company was founded in 1812 and is based in New York, New York.

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.

YAHOO! INC (NASDAQ:YHOO) - Yahoo! Inc., together with its consolidated subsidiaries, operates as a digital media company that delivers personalized digital content and experiences, across devices and worldwide. The companys communications and communities offerings provide a range of communication and social services to users and small businesses across various devices and through its broadband Internet access partners. Its search and marketplaces offerings provide answers to users' information needs by delivering meaningful search, local, and listings experiences on the search results page and across Yahoo!. Yahoo!s marketplaces offerings and services enable users to research specific topics, products, services or areas of interest by reviewing and exchanging information, obtaining contact details or considering offers from providers of goods, services, or parties with similar interests. Its media properties and services engage users with relevant online content and services on the Web. The company also offers advertisers targeted solutions, insights about their customer base, and tools that leverage those insights for optimized program performance; marketing services to advertisers across a majority of Yahoo! Properties and Affiliate sites; display advertising, search advertising, listing-based services, and commerce-based transactions; and customized and relevant advertising. In addition, it provides software and platform offerings for third-party developers, advertisers, and publishers. Further, the company offers the display of graphical advertisements, text-based links to advertisers Web sites, and other sources. Additionally, it enables users to publish their content on any topic and distributes that content through its Web site and content partners. The company has strategic alliance with Samsung and Nokia. Yahoo! Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

THOMPSON CREEK METALS CO INC (NYSE:TC) - Thompson Creek Metals Company Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in mining, milling, processing, and marketing molybdenum products in Canada and the United States. The company owns the Thompson Creek Mine and mill in Idaho; a metallurgical roasting facility in Langeloth, Pennsylvania; and a 75% joint venture interest in the Endako Mine, mill, and roasting facility in British Columbia. It also holds an option to acquire a 75% interest in the Mount Emmons molybdenum property located in Colorado; and a 100% interest in the Davidson molybdenum property situated in British Columbia. Thompson Creek Metals Company Inc. produces primarily molybdenum products, including pure oxide, molybdic oxide, powder and briquettes, ferromolybdenum, and high performance molybdenum disulfide. As of December 31, 2009, its consolidated recoverable proven and probable ore reserves totaled 556.0 million pounds of contained molybdenum in the Thompson Creek Mine and the Endako Mine. The company was formerly known as Blue Pearl Mining Ltd. and changed its name to Thompson Creek Metals Company Inc. in May 2007. Thompson Creek Metals Company Inc. has its main executive office in Denver, Colorado.

ALL AMERICAN PET CO INC (OTC:AAPT) - All American Pet Company, Inc. produces, markets, and sells dog food in the United States. It offers dog food under Grrrnola Natural Dog Food and BowWow Breakfast Cereal brand names. The company also offers a line of nutritional bars for dogs. All American Pet Company markets its dog food through supermarkets and grocery stores. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Beverly Hills, California.

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