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Market Maker Surveillance Report. DELL, BAC, NTAP, EMC, EP, XRX, Bearishly Biased Price Friction For Thursday, May 24th 2012

May 24, 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 3854 companies with "abnormal" market making, 2786 companies with positive Friction Factors and 2760 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. DELL INC (NASDAQ:DELL), BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION (NYSE:BAC), NetApp Inc (NASDAQ:NTAP), EMC CORPORATION (NYSE:EMC), El Paso Corp (NYSE:EP), XEROX CORP (NYSE:XRX). 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
  DELL    $-0.020   -0.16%    16,028,018   54.35%    13,436,053   45.56%    2,591,965    Abnormal
  BAC     $-0.040   -0.56%    64,284,658   31.51%    62,348,613   30.56%    1,936,045    Abnormal
  NTAP    $-4.020   -12.23%   28,305,985   52.35%    24,051,302   44.48%    4,254,683    Abnormal
  EMC     $-1.160   -4.56%    26,187,810   35.93%    23,282,919   31.94%    2,904,891    Abnormal
  EP      $-0.560   -1.90%    7,486,437    19.14%    5,433,345    13.89%    2,053,092    Abnormal
  XRX     $-0.200   -2.81%    9,028,264    38.07%    5,308,381    22.39%    3,719,883    Abnormal

Analysis of the Friction Factor chart above shows that each of the six stocks mentioned above had more buying than selling on Thursday and their stock prices dropped. 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 DELL with 2,591,965 greater shares of buying than selling (NetVol) and the stock price was down $-0.02000. 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.

DELL INC (NASDAQ:DELL) - Dell Inc. provides integrated technology solutions in the information technology (IT) industry worldwide. The company designs, develops, manufactures, markets, sells, and supports mobility products, including laptops, netbooks, tablets, and smartphones; desktops PCs; and servers and networking products. It also offers storage solutions comprising storage area networks, network-attached storage, direct-attached storage, disk and tape backup systems, and removable disk backup. In addition, the company provides third-party software products consisting of operating systems, business and office applications, anti-virus and related security software, and entertainment software; and peripherals, such as printers, televisions, notebook accessories, mice, keyboards, networking and wireless products, and digital cameras. In addition, it offers IT and business services, including transactional services, such as support, managed deployment, enterprise installation, and configuration services; outsourcing services comprising data center and systems management, network management, life cycle application development and management, and business process outsourcing services; and project-based services consisting of IT infrastructure, applications, business process, and business consulting services, as well as offers asset recovery, recycling, and applications maintenance services. Further, the company provides financial services, including originating, collecting, and servicing customer receivables related to the purchase of its products. Dell Inc. sells its products and services through its sales representatives, telephone-based sales, and online at dell.com, as well as through indirect sales channels. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Round Rock, Texas.

BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION (NYSE:BAC) - Bank of America Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides banking and financial services to individuals, small- and middle-market businesses, corporations, and governments primarily in the United States and internationally. The companys Deposits segment generates savings accounts, money market savings accounts, certificate of deposits and IRAs, and checking accounts; and Global Card Services segment provides the U.S. consumer and business card, consumer lending, international card and debit card services. Its Home Loans & Insurance segment offers fixed and adjustable-rate first-lien mortgage loans for home purchase and refinancing needs, reverse mortgages, home equity lines of credit, and home equity loans, as well as property, casualty, life, disability, and credit insurance. The companys Global Commercial Banking segment provides commercial loans and commitment facilities, real estate lending, leasing, trade finance, short-term credit, asset-based lending, and indirect consumer loans; and capital management and treasury solutions, such as treasury management, foreign exchange, and short-term investing options. Its Global Banking & Markets segment provides financial products, advisory services, financing, securities clearing, settlement, and custody services; debt and equity underwriting and distribution, merger-related advisory services, and risk management products; and integrated working capital management and treasury solutions. The companys Global Wealth & Investment Management segment offers advisory services, team-based investment advice and guidance, brokerage services, and wealth management solutions, as well as retirement services. Bank of America Corporation serves customers through a network of approximately 5,900 banking centers and 18,000 automated teller machines. The company was founded in 1874 and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

NetApp Inc (NASDAQ:NTAP) - NetApp, Inc. provides enterprise storage and data management software and hardware products and services in the United States and internationally. The company provides solutions for storing, managing, protecting, and archiving business data. It offers fabric-attached storage and V-series storage solutions that support mix of storage area network, network-attached storage, and Internet small computer system interface environments; storage management and application integration software; FAS storage systems family, which are unified networked storage systems that provide access to enterprise data for users on various platforms; and V-Series Family, a network-based virtualization solution. The company also provides data protection software products, including Snapshot technology that enables online backups of data sets; SnapRestore technology to recover file systems or data volumes; SnapVault and Open Systems SnapVault technologies, which offers network- and storage-optimized disk-to-disk backup solutions; MetroCluster that combines array-based clustering with synchronous mirroring; and SnapMirror data replication solution. In addition, it offers data retention and archive products; Flash Cache modules to optimize the performance of random read intensive workloads, such as file services and messaging; and DataFort storage security appliance for data security and management across NAS, IP SAN, and tape backup environments. Further, the company provides professional services, support solutions, and customer education and training services. It serves energy, financial services, government, high technology, Internet, life sciences and healthcare services, manufacturing, media, entertainment, animation and video postproduction, and telecommunications industries. The company was formerly known as Network Appliance, Inc. and changed its name to NetApp, Inc. in March 2008. NetApp was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

EMC CORPORATION (NYSE:EMC) - EMC Corporation develops, delivers, and supports information infrastructure and virtual infrastructure technologies and solutions. The companys Information Storage segment offers networked information storage systems and software, which are deployed in storage area network (SAN), networked attached storage (NAS), unified storage combining NAS and SAN, content addressed storage, and direct attached storage environments. Its Content Management and Archiving segment provides software, which optimizes business processes, as well as creates, manages, delivers, and archives information from documents and discussions, e-mail, Web pages, images, XML, reports, records, rich media, and application data. The companys RSA Information Security segment delivers products, packaged solutions, and services to guard the integrity and confidentiality of information throughout its lifecycle. This segment offers solutions in identity assurance and access control, data loss prevention, encryption and key management, compliance and security information management, and fraud protection. Its principal products include RSA enVision, the RSA Data Loss Prevention (DLP) 7.0 Suite, RSA Share Project, and the RSA Adaptive Authentication platform. EMC Corporations VMware Virtual Infrastructure business offers virtual infrastructure solutions and services to address a range of IT problems that include cost and operational inefficiencies, business continuity, software lifecycle management, and desktop management. The company also provides consulting, technology deployment, managed, customer support, and training and certification services. It sells its products and services through direct sales and multiple distribution channels in North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, South Africa, and the Asia Pacific. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.

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.

XEROX CORP (NYSE:XRX) - Xerox Corporation engages in the development, manufacture, marketing, service, and finance of document equipment, software, solutions, and services worldwide. The company operates in three segments: Technology, Services, and Other. The Technology segment provides multifunction printers, copiers, digital printing presses, light production devices, and desktop monochrome and color printers for office users. This segment also offers Extensible Interface Platform, a software platform that provides tools to create server based applications; and Xerox Mobile Print Solution, Xerox Mobile Express Driver, and Secure Access Unified ID System. The Services segment offers business process, information technology (IT), and document outsourcing services. Its business process outsourcing services include human resources, customer care, finance and accounting, healthcare payer and insurance, government services and solutions, transportation solutions, and card fare payment solutions. This segments IT outsourcing services comprise data center outsourcing, server outsourcing, network outsourcing, remote infrastructure management, help desk/service desk management, desktop outsourcing, managed storage, utility computing, disaster recovery, security, and IT commercial services. Its document outsourcing services include managed print services; consolidating in-house production and commercial printing; communication processes and back-office functions; designing, authoring, and translating technical documentation; and creating personalized and multi-channel marketing communications. The Other segment primarily sells paper, wide-format systems, and GIS network integration solutions and electronic presentation systems. The company sells its products and solutions through its sales force, as well as through a network of independent agents, dealers, value-added resellers, systems integrators, and the Web. Xerox Corporation was founded in 1906 and is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut.

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