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Market Maker Surveillance Report. LOW, USB, JCP, SONS, F, ORCL, Bullishly Biased Price Friction For Wednesday, May 23rd 2012


Published on 2012-05-23 18:01:03 - WOPRAI
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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 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. LOWE'S COS INC (NYSE:LOW), U.S. BANCORP (NYSE:USB), J.C. PENNEY CO INC (NYSE:JCP), SONUS NETWORKS INC (NASDAQ:SONS), Ford Motor Co (NYSE:F), Oracle Corp (NASDAQ:ORCL). 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     $0.600    2.35%     7,155,838    23.97%    8,556,312    28.66%    -1,400,474   Abnormal
  USB     $0.090    0.29%     2,029,506    18.39%    3,568,680    32.33%    -1,539,174   Abnormal
  JCP     $0.580    2.19%     1,842,508    22.17%    2,997,636    36.08%    -1,155,128   Abnormal
  SONS    $0.010    0.42%     937,920      24.60%    2,875,063    75.40%    -1,937,143   Abnormal
  F       $0.160    1.57%     20,020,033   26.49%    22,634,172   29.95%    -2,614,139   Abnormal
  ORCL    $0.130    0.49%     13,273,996   40.01%    19,391,594   58.45%    -6,117,598   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 LOW with 1,400,474 greater shares of selling than buying (NetVol) and the stock price was up $0.60000. 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.

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.

U.S. BANCORP (NYSE:USB) - U.S. Bancorp, a financial bank holding company, provides various banking and financial services in the United States. It generates various deposit products, including checking accounts, savings accounts, money market savings, and time certificates of deposit accounts. The company originates a portfolio of loans comprising commercial loans and lease financing; commercial real estate; residential mortgage; and retail loans, including credit card, retail leasing, home equity and second mortgages, and other retail loans. It also offers wholesale lending, equipment finance, small-ticket leasing, depository, treasury management, capital markets, foreign exchange, and international trade services to middle market, large corporate, commercial real estate, and public sector clients. In addition, U.S. Bancorp provides telebanking, online banking, direct mail, and automated teller machine (ATM) services. The company, through other subsidiaries, provides trust, private banking, financial advisory, investment management, retail brokerage services, insurance, and custody and mutual fund services; and payment services, including consumer and business credit cards, stored-value cards, debit cards, corporate and purchasing card services, consumer lines of credit, ATM processing, and merchant processing. U.S. Bancorp primarily serves individuals, estates, foundations, business corporations, and charitable organizations. As of November 12, 2010, it operated 3,013 bank branches and 5,323 ATMs. U.S. Bancorp was formerly known as Firstar Corporation and changed its name on February 28, 2001. The company was founded in 1863 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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.

SONUS NETWORKS INC (NASDAQ:SONS) - Sonus Networks, Inc. provides voice and data infrastructure solutions for wireline and wireless telephone service providers. Its products comprise softswitch and switch session border control (SBC) products. The companys product suite includes GSX9000 Open Services Switch to enable voice traffic to be transported over packet networks; GSX4000 Open Services Switch; NBS9000 Network Border Switch, an upgradation of the GSX9000 platform, which permits service providers to transform their time division multiplexing networks (TDM) to Internet protocol (IP) by permitting both TDM-to-IP and IP-to-IP session management capability on the same platform; PSX Policy & Routing Server that translates business policies into actual call control, routing, and service selection decisions; and NBS5200 Network Border, which offer SBC functionality comprising media interworking, advanced routing and policy engine, and multi-access security gateway functionality. It also provides ASX Call Feature Server that offers local area calling features for residential and enterprise markets, as well as regulatory features consisting of emergency services and lawful intercept; Network Analytics Suite of performance management products, including NetScore Network Performance Analysis Tool, NetAssure Voice Quality Monitoring Tool, and NetEng Network Audit and Visualization Engine for the collection, monitoring, reporting, and notification of performance metrics; and VoiceSentry system, an application-aware security system that protects voice networks against Telephony Denial of Service, and other malicious attacks. In addition, the company provides professional consulting and services to support IP communications solutions. Its customers include long distance and local exchange carriers, Internet service providers, wireless and cable operators, international telephone companies, and wholesale and enterprise operators. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Westford, Massachusetts.

Ford Motor Co (NYSE:F) - Ford Motor Company primarily develops, manufactures, distributes, and services vehicles and parts worldwide. It operates in two sectors, Automotive and Financial Services. The Automotive sector offers vehicles primarily under the Ford and Lincoln brand names. This sector markets cars, trucks, and parts through retail dealers in North America, and through distributors and dealers outside of North America. It also sells cars and trucks to dealers for sale to fleet customers, including daily rental car companies, commercial fleet customers, leasing companies, and governments. In addition, this sector provides retail customers with a range of after-sale vehicle services and products in the areas, such as maintenance and light repair, heavy repair, collision repair, vehicle accessories, and extended service contracts under the Ford Service, Lincoln Service, Ford Custom Accessories, Ford Extended Service Plan, and Motorcraft brand names. The Financial Services sector offers various automotive financing products to and through automotive dealers. It offers retail financing, which includes retail installment contracts for new and used vehicles; direct financing leases; wholesale financing products that comprise loans to dealers to finance the purchase of vehicle inventory; loans to dealers to finance working capital, purchase real estate dealership, and/or make improvements to dealership facilities; and other financing products, as well as provides insurance services. Ford Motor Company was founded in 1903 and is based in Dearborn, Michigan.

Oracle Corp (NASDAQ:ORCL) - Oracle Corporation, an enterprise software company, develops, manufactures, markets, distributes, and services database and middleware software, applications software, and hardware systems worldwide. It engages in licensing database and middleware software, including database, application server and application grid, SOA suite and business process management, data migration and integration, business intelligence, identity and access management, content management, portal and user interaction, developer tools, Oracle enterprise manager, and Java platform. The company also offers application software, including enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, enterprise performance management, supply chain management, business intelligence applications, enterprise project portfolio management, and industry-specific applications; and software license updates and product support services. In addition, it provides hardware systems products, such as servers, storage products, Solaris operating system and other hardware-related software, and networking components and products; and hardware systems support services. Further, the company offers consulting services, which include enterprise architecture design and implementation, business/IT strategy alignment, business process simplification, solution integration, and product implementation, enhancements, and upgrades; on demand and advanced customer services; and training services, as well as certification programs. It markets and sells its products directly, as well as through resellers, system integrators/implementers, consultants, education providers, Internet service providers, network integrators, and independent software vendors to various industries, government agencies, and educational institutions. The company has a strategic alliance with Cap Gemini S.A. to market and implement Oracle Revenue Management for public. Oracle was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

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