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Market Maker Surveillance Report. DELL, RAD, DUK, HPQ, MCD, AFFX, Bearishly Biased Price Friction For Tuesday, June 19th 2012

^{Published on 2012-06-19 18:01:02 - WOPRAI}
 

June 19, 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 3653 companies with "abnormal" market making, 4249 companies with positive Friction Factors and 1527 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), RITE AID CORP (NYSE:RAD), DUKE ENERGY CORP (NYSE:DUK), HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY (NYSE:HPQ), MCDONALD'S CORP (NYSE:MCD), AFFYMETRIX INC (NASDAQ:AFFX). 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    $-0.240   -1.93%    18,472,447   53.69%    15,875,206   46.14%    2,597,241    Abnormal
  RAD     $-0.040   -3.28%    7,239,779    42.43%    5,850,009    34.28%    1,389,770    Abnormal
  DUK     $-0.180   -0.77%    3,940,467    39.18%    2,757,610    27.42%    1,182,857    Abnormal
  HPQ     $-0.240   -1.14%    7,076,339    32.84%    5,994,853    27.82%    1,081,486    Abnormal
  MCD     $-0.430   -0.47%    2,755,527    36.76%    1,936,764    25.84%    818,763      Abnormal
  AFFX    $-0.720   -13.36%   6,112,574    58.45%    4,372,900    41.82%    1,739,674    Abnormal

For example, the chart above shows DELL with 2,597,241 greater shares of buying than selling (NetVol) and the stock price was down $-0.24000. 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.

RITE AID CORP (NYSE:RAD) - Rite Aid Corporation, through its subsidiaries, operates retail drugstores in the United States. The companys drugstores primarily offer pharmacy services. It provides prescription drugs and front end products, which include over-the-counter medications, health and beauty aids, personal care items, cosmetics, household items, beverages, convenience foods, greeting cards, seasonal merchandise, and various other everyday and convenience products, as well as photo processing products. The company sells its products under the Rite Aid brand. It offers its products to customers covered by third party payors, such as insurance companies, prescription benefit management companies, government agencies, private employers or other managed care providers. As of February 27, 2010, the company operated 4,780 retail drugstores in 31 states, as well as in the District of Columbia. It has a strategic alliance with GNC to operate GNC stores within Rite Aid stores. The company was founded in 1927 and is headquartered in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania.

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.

HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY (NYSE:HPQ) - Hewlett-Packard Company offers various products, technologies, software, solutions, and services to individual consumers and small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), as well as to the government, health, and education sectors worldwide. The companys Services segment provides consulting, outsourcing, and technology services to infrastructure, applications, and business process domains. Its Enterprise Storage and Servers segment offers storage and server products. This segment provides industry standard servers, business critical systems, and storage works offerings. The companys HP Software segment provides enterprise IT management solutions, information management and business intelligence solutions, and communications and media solutions. Its Personal Systems Group segment offers commercial personal computers (PCs), consumer PCs, workstations, handheld computing devices, calculators and other related accessories, and software and services for the commercial and consumer markets. The companys Imaging and Printing Group segment provides consumer and commercial printer hardware, printing supplies, printing media, and scanning devices, such as inkjet and Web solutions, laserjet and enterprise solutions, managed enterprise solutions, graphics solutions, and printer supplies. Its HP Financial Services segment offers leasing, financing, utility programs, and asset recovery services; and financial asset management services for enterprise customers, as well as specialized financial services to SMBs, and educational and governmental entities. The company also provides network infrastructure products under the ProCurve, 3Com, and TippingPoint brand names; video collaboration products under the Halo brand name; and Palm smartphones, as well as licenses its specific technology to third parties. Hewlett-Packard Company was founded in 1939 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

MCDONALD'S CORP (NYSE:MCD) - McDonalds Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a worldwide foodservice retailer. It franchises and operates McDonalds restaurants that offer various food items, soft drinks, coffee, and other beverages. As of December 31, 2009, the company operated 32,478 restaurants in 117 countries, of which 26,216 were operated by franchisees; and 6,262 were operated by the company. McDonalds Corporation was founded in 1948 and is based in Oak Brook, Illinois.

AFFYMETRIX INC (NASDAQ:AFFX) - Affymetrix, Inc. engages in the development, manufacture, sale, and servicing of consumables and systems for genetic analysis in the life sciences and clinical healthcare markets. The company offers integrated GeneChip microarray platform that includes disposable DNA probe arrays (chips) consisting of nucleic acid sequences, certain reagents for use with the probe arrays, a scanner and other instruments used to process the probe arrays, and software to analyze and manage genomic or genetic information obtained from the probe arrays. Its products are used in various applications, including genotyping and gene expression. The company sells its products directly to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, agrichemical, diagnostics, and consumer products companies; academic research centers; government research laboratories; private foundation laboratories; and clinical reference laboratories in North America and Europe, as well as through life science supply specialists acting as authorized distributors in Latin America, India, the Middle East, and the Asia Pacific regions, including the Peoples Republic of China. It has collaboration partnerships with Beckman Coulter, Inc.; CapitalBio Corporation; Life Technologies, Inc.; Genisphere LLC; and Qiagen GmbH. The company has operations in the United States, Europe, and Japan. Affymetrix, Inc. was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

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