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Market Maker Surveillance Report. MET, MU, SLE, AMLN, FTNT, FIS, Bearishly Biased Price Friction For Thursday, May 31st 2012

^{Published on 2012-05-31 18:01:23 - WOPRAI}
 

May 31, 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 3786 companies with "abnormal" market making, 2608 companies with positive Friction Factors and 3054 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. METLIFE, INC. (NYSE:MET), MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC (NASDAQ:MU), SARA LEE CORP (NYSE:SLE), AMYLIN PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. (NASDAQ:AMLN), Fortinet Inc (NASDAQ:FTNT), FIDELITY NATIONAL INFORMATION SERVICES, INC. (NYSE:FIS). 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
  MET     $-0.400   -1.35%    11,649,897   51.34%    3,884,870    17.12%    7,765,027    Abnormal
  MU      $-0.170   -2.87%    17,693,619   60.34%    11,574,946   39.47%    6,118,673    Abnormal
  SLE     $-0.140   -0.68%    5,378,800    54.53%    1,637,630    16.60%    3,741,170    Abnormal
  AMLN    $-0.890   -3.24%    6,976,947    63.63%    3,435,941    31.34%    3,541,006    Abnormal
  FTNT    $-0.390   -1.79%    3,738,181    81.40%    852,485      18.56%    2,885,696    Abnormal
  FIS     $-0.170   -0.52%    3,930,070    69.97%    649,703      11.57%    3,280,367    Abnormal

For example, the chart above shows MET with 7,765,027 greater shares of buying than selling (NetVol) and the stock price was down $-0.40000. 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.

METLIFE, INC. (NYSE:MET) - MetLife, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides insurance, employee benefits, and financial services in the United States, Latin America, the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and India. It offers group life insurance products and services as employer-paid benefits, including variable life, universal life, and term life products, as well as employee paid supplemental life products; individual life insurance products and services comprising variable life, universal life, term life, and whole life products, as well as a range of mutual funds and other securities products; and non-medical health insurance products and services, such as dental insurance, group short- and long-term disability, individual disability income, long-term care, critical illness, and accidental death and dismemberment coverages, as well as employer-sponsored auto and homeowners insurance and administrative services-only arrangements to employers. The company also provides retirement products consisting of variable and fixed annuities for individuals and employees of corporations, and other institutions. In addition, MetLife provides an array of annuity and investment products, including guaranteed interest products and other stable value products, income annuities, and separate account contracts for the investment management of defined benefit and defined contribution plan assets, as well as offers certain products to fund postretirement benefits. Further, it offers auto insurance and homeowners insurance policies, as well as personal excess liability and coverage for recreational vehicles and boat owners; and credit insurance and endowment products. Additionally, the company funds company initiatives, various start-up entities, and run-off entities; and banking services, such as residential mortgage loans and various deposit products. The company was founded in 1868 and is based in New York, New York.

MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC (NASDAQ:MU) - Micron Technology, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and marketing of semiconductor devices worldwide. Its products include dynamic random access memory (DRAM) products that provide data storage and retrieval, which include DDR2 and DDR3; and other specialty DRAM memory products, including DDR, SDRAM, DDR and DDR2 mobile low power DRAM, pseudo-static RAM, and reduced latency DRAM. The company also offers NAND flash memory products, which are electrically re-writeable and non-volatile semiconductor devices that retain content when power is turned off. In addition, it provides NOR flash memory products that are electrically re-writeable and non-volatile semiconductor memory devices; phase change memory products; and image sensor products. Micron Technologys products are used in a range of electronic applications, including personal computers, workstations, network servers, mobile phones, flash memory cards, USB storage devices, digital still cameras, MP3/4 players, and in automotive applications. It sells its products to original equipment manufacturers and retailers through internal sales force, independent sales representatives, and distributors, as well as through a Web-based customer direct sales channel. The company was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Boise, Idaho.

SARA LEE CORP (NYSE:SLE) - Sara Lee Corporation engages in the manufacture and marketing of a range of branded packaged meat, bakery, and beverage products worldwide. Its packaged meat products include hot dogs and corn dogs, breakfast sausages, sandwiches and bowls, smoked and dinner sausages, premium deli and luncheon meats, bacon, beef, turkey, and cooked ham. It also offers fresh and frozen baked products, which comprise bread, buns, bagels, rolls, muffins, specialty bread, frozen pies, cakes, cheesecakes, pastries, and other desserts. In addition, Sara Lee provides roast, ground, and liquid coffee; cappuccinos; lattes; and hot and iced teas, as well as refrigerated dough products. The company sells its products under Hillshire Farm, Ball Park, Jimmy Dean, Sara Lee, State Fair, Earth Grains, Colonial, Rainbo, Holsum, IronKids, Mothers, Sunbeam, Sun-Maid, San Luis Sourdough, Heiners, Douwe Egberts, Senseo, Maison du Caf, Marcilla, Merrild, Pickwick, Caf Caboclo, Caf Pilo, Bimbo, CroustiPate, Ortiz, and BonGateaux brand names. Sara Lee sells its products to mass retailers, supermarkets, mass merchandisers, distributors, restaurants, hospitals, warehouse clubs, national chains, and other institutions through direct sales force and outside brokers. The company was formerly known as Consolidated Foods Corporation and changed its name to Sara Lee Corporation in 1985. Sara Lee Corporation was founded in 1939 and is based in Downers Grove, Illinois.

AMYLIN PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. (NASDAQ:AMLN) - Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of drug candidates for the treatment of diabetes, obesity, and other diseases. The companys products include BYETTA (exenatide) injection for the treatment of type 2 diabetes; and SYMLIN (pramlintide acetate) injection for the treatment of type 1 and type 2 diabetes. It also has research and development (R&D) programs in the therapeutic areas of diabetes and obesity. The companys R&D programs for diabetes include exenatide once weekly, exenatide once weekly pen, exenatide suspension formulation, exenatide nasal, and the exenatide transdermal patch. Its R&D programs for obesity comprise pramlintide/metreleptin combination therapy and PYY 3-36. The company markets its products to healthcare providers, managed healthcare organizations, wholesalers and pharmacies, government purchasers, and other third-party payers primarily in the United States. It has collaboration agreements Eli Lilly and Company; Alkermes, Inc.; Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited; Biocon, Ltd.; and BioSeek, Inc. The company was founded in 1987 and is based in San Diego, California.

Fortinet Inc (NASDAQ:FTNT) - Fortinet, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides network security appliances and unified threat management (UTM) network security solutions to enterprises, service providers, and government entities worldwide. The companys flagship UTM solution consists of FortiGate appliance products that offer a set of security and networking functions, including firewall, virtual private network, antivirus, intrusion prevention, Web filtering, antispam, and wide area network acceleration. It also offers FortiManager, a centralized management appliance; and FortiAnalyzer, which serves as a network logging, analyzing, and reporting appliance. In addition, the company provides FortiMail, an e-mail antispam and security appliance; FortiDB, a data base security appliance; FortiClient, an endpoint security software; FortiWeb, a Web application firewall appliance; and FortiScan, an endpoint vulnerability management appliance. Fortinet, Inc. sells its security solutions to various end-customers and industries, including telecommunications, government, financial services, retail, education, technology, healthcare, and manufacturing through its channel partners, such as distributors, government focused resellers, and systems integrator partners. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

FIDELITY NATIONAL INFORMATION SERVICES, INC. (NYSE:FIS) - Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. provides banking and payments technology solutions, processing services, and information-based services. The Financial Solutions segment offers core processing software applications used to maintain the banks customer accounts; retail delivery applications for integrating back-office processes; applications for decision and risk management; applications for syndicated commercial loan origination and management; and technology solutions, such as consulting engagements, application development projects, and operations support for management of a single application or various information technology infrastructures. The Payment Solutions segment offers electronic funds transfer services comprising settlement and card management solutions, such as ATM- and PIN-based debit network access and real-time payment alternatives through NYCE; item processing and output services; credit card solutions; government and healthcare payments solutions that facilitate the exchange of information and funds among patients, payers, providers, and financial institutions; ePayment solutions consisting of bill publishing and bill consolidation technology; and check authorization services, such as check risk management and related services to businesses accepting or cashing checks. The International Solutions segment provides financial and payment processing software and services, including outsourced card issuer services and customer support, item processing, and retail point-of-sale check authorization services; and outsourced core bank processing arrangements, application management, software licensing and maintenance, facilities management, and consulting services. The company serves the mid-tier and community banks, credit unions, commercial lenders, automotive financial institutions, healthcare providers, governments, and retailers. Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida.

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