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Market Maker Surveillance Report. LOW, HMY, T, WFC, IO, FB, Bullishly Biased Price Friction For Friday, June 15th 2012

June 15, 2012 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for Friday. 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 Friday there were 3725 companies with "abnormal" market making, 3293 companies with positive Friction Factors and 2158 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), HARMONY GOLD MNG-SPON ADR (NYSE:HMY), AT&T INC (NYSE:T), WELLS FARGO & CO (NYSE:WFC), Ion Geophysical Corp (NYSE:IO), (NASDAQ: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
  LOW     $0.140    0.50%     5,758,137    25.87%    10,726,290   48.19%    -4,968,153   Abnormal
  HMY     $0.080    0.78%     1,176,235    12.51%    6,322,454    67.25%    -5,146,219   Abnormal
  T       $0.060    0.17%     9,537,531    22.93%    16,220,885   39.00%    -6,683,354   Abnormal
  WFC     $0.390    1.22%     6,492,297    16.58%    15,709,870   40.13%    -9,217,573   Abnormal
  IO      $0.210    3.43%     292,182      3.83%     6,674,438    87.41%    -6,382,256   Abnormal
  FB      $1.660    5.87%     17,717,981   40.69%    25,046,244   57.53%    -7,328,263   Abnormal

Analysis of the Friction Factor chart above shows that each of the six stocks mentioned above had more selling than buying on Friday 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 4,968,153 greater shares of selling than buying (NetVol) and the stock price was up $0.14000. 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.

HARMONY GOLD MNG-SPON ADR (NYSE:HMY) - Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited engages in underground and surface gold mining operations in South Africa and Papua New Guinea. It also involves in related activities, such as exploration, processing, and smelting. The company has 10 underground operations; and various surface operations, including an open cast mine and 9 processing plants, which are located in goldfields in the Witwatersrand basin of South Africa, as well as the Kraaipan Greenstone Belt. In addition, it holds interests in the development and exploration prospects at Hidden Valley and Wafi Golpu in Papua New Guinea. Further, the company owns prospective reserves for silver, copper, and molybdenum through its Papua New Guinea projects. It owns 100% interests in 4 projects in Papua New Gunies, including Mount Hagen in the Western Highlands; Amanab in the Sandaun province; 2 tenement applications in the Central province; and 2 tenement applications in the Southern Highlands province. The companys prospecting interests comprise 67,922 hectares in South Africa and 344,522 hectares in Papua New Guinea. Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited was founded in 1950 and is based in Randfontein, South Africa.

AT&T INC (NYSE:T) - AT&T Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides telecommunication services to consumers, businesses, and other service providers worldwide. Its Wireless segment offers wireless voice communication services, including local wireless communications service, long-distance service, and roaming services. This segment also sells various handsets, wirelessly enabled computers, and personal computer wireless data cards; and accessories comprising carrying cases, hands-free devices, batteries, battery chargers and, other items. This segment sells its products through its own stores, or through agents or third party retail stores. The companys Wireline segment provides voice services, including local and long-distance services, calling card, 1-800 services, conference calling, wholesale switched access service, caller ID, call waiting, and voice mail services; and application management, security service, integration services, customer premises equipment, outsourcing, government-related services, and satellite video services. This segment also offers data services, such as switched and dedicated transport, Internet access and network integration, data equipment, and U-verse services; high-speed connections comprising private lines, packet, dedicated Internet, and enterprise networking services, as well as DSL/broadband, dial-up Internet access, and WiFi products; businesses voice applications over IP-based networks; and local, interstate, and international wholesale networking capacity to other service providers. In addition, its Advertising solutions segment publishes yellow and white pages directories; and sells directory advertising and Internet-based advertising and local search. The company was formerly known as SBC Communications Inc. and changed its name to AT&T Inc. in November 2005 as a result of merger with AT&T Corp. AT&T Inc. was founded in 1983 and is based in Dallas, Texas.

WELLS FARGO & CO (NYSE:WFC) - Wells Fargo & Company, through its subsidiaries, provides retail, commercial, and corporate banking services primarily in the United States. The company operates in three segments: Community Banking; Wholesale Banking; and Wealth, Brokerage, and Retirement. The Community Banking segment offers deposits, including checking, market rate, and individual retirement accounts; savings and time deposits; and debit cards. Its loan products comprise lines of credit, auto floor plans, equity lines and loans, equipment and transportation loans, education loans, residential mortgage loans, health savings accounts, and credit cards. This segment also provides equipment leases, real estate financing, small business administration financing, venture capital financing, cash management, payroll services, retirement plans, loans secured by autos, and merchant payment processing services; purchases sales finance contracts from retail merchants; and a family of funds, and investment management services. The Wholesale Banking segment offers commercial and corporate banking products and services, including commercial loans and lines of credit, letters of credit, asset-based lending, equipment leasing, international trade facilities, trade financing, collection services, foreign exchange services, treasury and investment management, institutional fixed-income sales, commodity and equity risk management, insurance, corporate trust fiduciary and agency services, and investment banking services. This segment also provides banking products for commercial real estate market, and real estate and mortgage brokerage services. The Wealth, Brokerage, and Retirement segment offers financial advisory, brokerage, and institutional retirement and trust services. As of December 31, 2010, the company served its customers through approximately 9,000 banking stores in 39 States and the District of Columbia. Wells Fargo & Company was founded in 1929 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Ion Geophysical Corp (NYSE:IO) - ION Geophysical Corporation provides geophysical technology, services, and solutions for the oil and gas industry worldwide. It operates in four segments: Land Imaging Systems, Marine Imaging Systems, Data Management Solutions, and ION Solutions. The Land Imaging Systems segment offers cable-based, cable less, and radio-controlled seismic data acquisition systems, digital and analog geophone sensors, vibrator trucks, and source controllers for detonator and vibrator energy sources. The Marine Imaging Systems segment provides towed streamer and redeployable ocean bottom cable seismic data acquisition systems and shipboard recorders, streamer positioning and control systems, and energy sources comprising air guns and air gun controllers. The Data Management Solutions segment offers software systems and services, including Orca, a software product for towed streamer navigation and integrated data management applications; SPECTRA software system for seismic survey operations; GATOR software system for ocean bottom cable and transition zone operations; consulting services for planning, designing, and supervising survey operations; and post-survey analysis tools consisting of SPRINT navigation processing and quality control software for marine geophysical surveys, and REFLEX software for navigation and seismic data analysis. The ION Solutions segment offers seismic data processing and imaging services for marine and land environments, and a seismic data library, as well as integrated seismic solution services to manage the seismic process, such as survey planning and design, project oversight of data acquisition operations, advanced signal processing, final image rendering, and geophysical and reservoir analysis. The company was formerly known as Input/Output, Inc. and changed its name to ION Geophysical Corporation in 2007. ION Geophysical Corporation was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

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