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Market Maker Surveillance Report. ANR, EBAY, GILD, EMC, WDC, DUK, Bearishly Biased Price Friction For Tuesday, June 12th 2012

^{Published on 2012-06-12 18:00:53 - WOPRAI}
 

June 12, 2012 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for Tuesday. 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 Tuesday there were 3768 companies with "abnormal" market making, 3539 companies with positive Friction Factors and 1979 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. ALPHA NATURAL RESOURCES INC (NYSE:ANR), EBAY INC (NASDAQ:EBAY), GILEAD SCIENCES, INC. (NASDAQ:GILD), EMC CORPORATION (NYSE:EMC), WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION (NYSE:WDC), DUKE ENERGY CORP (NYSE:DUK). 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
  ANR     $-0.170   -2.01%    6,784,011    32.44%    6,161,148    29.46%    622,863      Abnormal
  EBAY    $-0.060   -0.15%    7,231,222    51.16%    6,894,740    48.78%    336,482      Abnormal
  GILD    $-0.320   -0.66%    1,902,802    55.27%    1,575,399    45.76%    327,403      Abnormal
  EMC     $-0.050   -0.22%    6,273,300    31.71%    5,329,153    26.94%    944,147      Abnormal
  WDC     $-0.130   -0.42%    2,424,377    55.62%    1,909,249    43.80%    515,128      Abnormal
  DUK     $-0.020   -0.07%    9,504,771    37.74%    7,494,302    29.76%    2,010,469    Abnormal

For example, the chart above shows ANR with 622,863 greater shares of buying than selling (NetVol) and the stock price was down $-0.17000. 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.

ALPHA NATURAL RESOURCES INC (NYSE:ANR) - Alpha Natural Resources, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the production, processing, and sale of coal in the United States. The company offers metallurgical coal for use in the steel-making process; and thermal coal to electric utilities and manufacturing industries. It operates 66 mines and 13 coal preparation plants in Northern and Central Appalachia, and the Powder River Basin regions. The company sells coal to electric utilities, steel and coke producers, industrial customers, and energy traders and brokers. Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is based in Abingdon, Virginia.

EBAY INC (NASDAQ:EBAY) - eBay Inc. provides online marketplaces for the sale of goods and services, as well as other online commerce, platforms, and online payment solutions to individuals and businesses in the United States and internationally. The companys Marketplaces segment provides the infrastructure to enable online commerce on a range of platforms, including the eBay.com platform, and its localized platforms. Its online platforms also consist of StubHub, a secondary tickets marketplace; Shopping.com, an online shopping comparison Website; Rent.com, an apartment listing service platform; and Half.com, a fixed price media marketplace. This segment also operates classifieds Websites, such as Den Bla Avis, BilBasen, Gumtree, Kijiji, LoQUo, Marktplaats.nl, and mobile.de, as well as eBay Classifieds, including eBay Anuncios, eBay Kleinanzeigen, and eBay Annunci. In addition, its eBay.com platform provides services comprising feedback forums, safeharbor programs, verified rights owner programs, customer support, pre-trade and post-trade tools and services, powerseller programs, eBay top-rated seller programs, top buyer programs, coupons and buyer rewards, and eBay buyer protection services. The companys Payments segment operates online payment solutions, such as PayPal, which enables individuals and businesses to send and receive payments online; and Bill Me Later solution that enables the United States merchants to offer, the Unites States consumers to obtain, credit at the point of sale for ecommerce transactions through Bill Me Laters relationship with a chartered financial institution. eBay Inc. was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

GILEAD SCIENCES, INC. (NASDAQ:GILD) - Gilead Sciences, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of therapeutics for the treatment of life threatening diseases worldwide. Its products include Atripla, Truvada, Viread, Emtriva for the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus infection in adults; Hepsera, an oral formulation for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B; AmBisome, a amphotericin B liposome injection to treat invasive fungal infections; Letairis, an endothelin receptor antagonist for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension; Ranexa for the treatment of chronic angina; Vistide, an antiviral medication for the treatment of cytomegalovirus retinitis in patients with AIDS; and Cayston, an inhaled antibiotic used as a treatment to enhance respiratory systems. The companys products also comprise Tamiflu, an oral antiviral for the treatment and prevention of influenza A and B; Macugen, an intravitreal injection for the treatment of neovascular age-related macular degeneration; and Lexiscan/Rapiscan, an injection used as a pharmacologic stress agent in radionuclide myocardial perfusion imaging. Its products under the Phase III clinical trials consist of Cobicistat, a pharmacoenhancer that is under evaluation as a boosting agent for HIV medicines; Elvitegravir, an oral integrase inhibitor being evaluated as part of combination therapy for HIV; Integrase Single-Tablet, a Quad regimen of elvitegravir, cobicistat, tenofovir disoproxil fumarate, and emtricitabine for the treatment of HIV/AIDS in treatment-naive patients; and Aztreonam for inhalation solution for the treatment of cystic fibrosis patients with Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The companys Phase II clinical trials products comprise Cicletanine, Ranolazine, and Aztreonam, as well as GS 9190, GS 9256, and GS 9451. Its Phase I clinical trial products include GS 7340, GS 5885, GS 6620, GS 9620, and GS 6624. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Foster City, 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.

WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION (NYSE:WDC) - Western Digital Corporation primarily engages in the design, development, manufacture, and sale of hard drives worldwide. It offers hard drives, including 3.5-inch and 2.5-inch form factor drives under the WD Caviar, WD RE, WD VelociRaptor, WD Scorpio, WD Elementstm, WD AV, WD ShareSpacetm, WD S25, My Passport, My Book, and My DVR Expander brand names. The companys hard drives are used in desktop and notebook computers, corporate networks, home entertainment equipment, and stand-alone consumer storage devices. It also offers hard drives as stand-alone storage products for personal data backup, and portable or expanded storage of digital music, photographs, video, and other digital data. In addition, the company provides solid-state drives under the SiliconDrive and SiliconEdge brand names for use in the embedded systems and client PC markets; and media players under the WD TV brand name. It offers its products to original equipment manufacturers, systems manufacturers, select resellers, and retailers. The company was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

DUKE ENERGY CORP (NYSE:DUK) - Duke Energy Corporation operates as an energy company in the Americas. It operates through three segments: U.S. Franchised Electric and Gas, Commercial Power, and International Energy. The U.S. Franchised Electric and Gas segment generates, transmits, distributes, and sells electricity in central and western North Carolina, western South Carolina, southwestern Ohio, Indiana, and northern Kentucky; and transports and sells natural gas in southwestern Ohio and northern Kentucky. This segment supplies electric service to 4 million residential, commercial, and industrial customers with approximately 152,200 miles of distribution lines and a 20,900 mile transmission system; and sells electricity on wholesale to incorporated municipalities, electric cooperative utilities, and other load serving entities. It generates electricity through nuclear, coal-fired, hydroelectric, combustion turbine, and natural gas plants, as well as a solar power plant. The Commercial Power segment owns, operates, and manages power plants, as well as engages in the wholesale marketing and procurement of electric power, fuel, and emission allowances related to plants. This segment also retails electricity to customers in southwest, west central, and northern Ohio. The International Energy segment owns, operates, and manages power generation facilities; sells and markets electric power and natural gas; and produces natural gas liquids, methanol, and methyl tertiary butyl ether. This segment serves retail distributors, electric utilities, independent power producers, marketers, and industrial/commercial companies. The company also develops, owns, and operates a fiber optic communications network, primarily in the southeast U.S., serving wireless, local and long-distance communications companies, Internet service providers, and other businesses and organizations. Duke Energy Corporation was founded in 1916 and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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