Market Maker Surveillance Report. C, SIRI, MNST, CSCO, DOW, AGUNF, Bearishly Biased Price Friction For Thursday, June 28th 201
June 28, 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 3912 companies with "abnormal" market making, 2377 companies with positive Friction Factors and 3019 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. CITIGROUP INC (NYSE:C), Sirius XM Radio Inc (NASDAQ:SIRI), Monster Worldwide Inc (NASDAQ:MNST), CISCO SYSTEMS INCORPORATED (NASDAQ:CSCO), DOW CHEMICAL CO/THE (NYSE:DOW), ARCTIC GLACIER INCOME FD-UT (OTC:AGUNF). 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 C $-0.860 -3.17% 21,787,932 31.95% 18,448,528 27.05% 3,339,404 Abnormal SIRI $-0.020 -1.07% 11,605,005 62.64% 6,887,663 37.18% 4,717,342 Abnormal MNST $-2.450 -3.45% 31,740,001 83.46% 6,867,779 18.06% 24,872,222 Abnormal CSCO $-0.290 -1.73% 30,278,813 53.52% 25,620,866 45.28% 4,657,947 Abnormal DOW $-0.100 -0.33% 6,264,596 33.93% 3,644,260 19.74% 2,620,336 Abnormal AGUNF $-0.015 -9.37% 16,260,250 56.71% 12,411,546 43.29% 3,848,704 AbnormalAnalysis 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 C with 3,339,404 greater shares of buying than selling (NetVol) and the stock price was down $-0.86000. 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.
CITIGROUP INC (NYSE:C) - Citigroup, Inc., a global financial services company, provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a range of financial products and services. The company operates through two segments, Citicorp and Citi Holdings. The Citicorp segment operates as a global bank for businesses and consumers with two primary businesses, Regional Consumer Banking and Institutional Clients Group. The Regional Consumer Banking business provides traditional banking services, including retail banking, and branded cards in North America, Asia, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The Institutional Clients Group business provides securities and banking services comprising investment banking and advisory services, lending, debt and equity sales and trading, institutional brokerage, foreign exchange, structured products, cash instruments and related derivatives, and private banking; and transaction services consisting of treasury and trade solutions, and securities and fund services. The Citi Holdings segment operates Brokerage and Asset Management, Local Consumer Lending, and Special Asset Pool businesses. The Brokerage and Asset Management Business, through its 49% stake in Morgan Stanley Smith Barney joint venture and Nikko Cordial Securities, offers retail brokerage and asset management services. The Local Consumer Lending business provides residential mortgage loans, retail partner card loans, personal loans, commercial real estate, and other consumer loans, as well as western European cards and retail banking services. The Special Asset Pool business is a portfolio of securities, loans, and other assets. Citigroup Inc. has approximately 200 million customer accounts and operates in approximately 160 countries. The company was founded in 1812 and is based in New York, New York.
Sirius XM Radio Inc (NASDAQ:SIRI) - Sirius XM Radio Inc. provides satellite radio services in the United States and Canada. The company offers a programming lineup of approximately 135 channels of commercial-free music, sports, news, talk, entertainment, and traffic and weather. It also provides music channels that offer music genres, ranging from rock, pop and hip-hop to country, dance, jazz, Latin, and classical; channels of sports; talk and entertainment channels; comedy channels; national, international, and financial news channels; and religious channels. As of December 31, 2009, Sirius XM Radio had 18,772,758 subscribers. In addition, it provides music services for commercial establishments; music and comedy channels to mobile phone users; and music channels and select non-music channels over the Internet; a suite of data services; services that offer graphic information; and various real-time weather services, as well as operates a television service, which provides content designed primarily for children in the backseat of vehicles. Further, the company engages in the distribution of satellite radios for use in cars, trucks, homes, offices, boats, or other locations. Sirius XM Radio distributes its satellite radios primarily through automakers, retailers, and Web sites, as well as offers to customers of rental car companies. Further, it provides home units that offer satellite services to home and commercial audio systems, and products that provide access to the Internet radio services in the home without the personal computer. The company was formerly known as Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. and changed its name to Sirius XM Radio Inc. in August 2008. Sirius XM Radio Inc. was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
Monster Worldwide Inc (NASDAQ:MNST) - Monster Worldwide, Inc., incorporated in 1996, is the parent company of Monster, a global online careers property. It also owns TMP Worldwide, a recruitment advertising agency network. The Company operates in two business segments: Monster and Advertising & Communications. During the year ended December 31, 2005, these segments represented approximately 83% and 17% of the total revenue, respectively. In 2005, Monster Worldwide disposed of its Directional Marketing business segment. In October 2005, the Company's Monster division purchased JobKorea, an online recruitment Website in South Korea. The Monster division also purchased Emailjob.com SAS, an online recruiter in France in February 2005.
Monster
Monster is the Company's flagship brand. The Monster division operates in 24 countries. Monster connects employers with job seekers and offers technology and services. The tools offered include searchable job postings, a resume database and career management content and advice. Monster's job search, resume posting services and basic networking are free to the job seeker. Monster also offers career services at a fee to job seekers. Employers and human resources professionals pay to post jobs, search Monster's resume database and use career site hosting and applicant tracking systems, and other ancillary services. In addition, Monster offers Internet advertising to a variety of businesses that seek to market their products and services through online properties.
The Company's Fastweb service is designed to assist secondary school students in their search for universities and scholarships. MonsterTRAK is used by over 2,800 colleges and universities to post entry-level jobs and internships for their enrolled students and alumni. The Monster global network provides opportunities and advice for individuals seeking entry and mid-career level positions. In addition to its job search and resume posting capabilities, job seekers obtain advice on interviewing skills, resume writing, salary, and benefits information and networking opportunities.
Advertising & Communications
The TMP Worldwide Advertising & Communications business specializes in designing global, national or local recruitment advertising campaigns for clients and government agencies. A large portion of Advertising & Communications division's revenue is earned by placing help-wanted advertisements in traditional media, such as newspapers. The Advertising & Communications division has also embraced Web-based recruitment solutions and created a balanced portfolio of value-added products and services. The Company offers bundled recruitment strategies tailored to its clients' specific needs. In addition to recruitment advertising, such services and strategies include employee retention programs, creative design, Website development, resume screening and media planning.
CISCO SYSTEMS INCORPORATED (NASDAQ:CSCO) - Cisco Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells Internet protocol (IP)-based networking and other products related to the communications and information technology industry worldwide. It offers routers that interconnect public and private IP networks for mobile, data, voice, and video applications; switching products, which offer connectivity to end users, workstations, IP phones, access points, and servers; application networking services; and home networking products, such as adapters, gateways, modems, and home network management software products. The company also provides security products comprising span firewall, intrusion prevention, remote access, virtual private network, unified client, Web, and email security products; storage area networking products that deliver connectivity between servers and storage systems; unified communication products to integrate voice, video, data, and mobile applications on fixed and mobile networks; video systems, including digital set-top boxes and digital media products; and wireless systems. In addition, it offers optical networking products, cable access and flip video products, service provider VoIP services, Cisco TelePresence systems, Cisco Unified Computing Systems, physical security and video surveillances, digital media systems, and building systems. Further, the company provides technical support services; and responsive, preventive, and consultative support services for its technologies. Cisco Systems, Inc. has strategic alliances with Accenture Ltd; AT&T Inc.; Cap Gemini S.A.; EMC Corporation; Fujitsu Limited; Intel Corporation; International Business Machines Corporation; Italtel SpA; Johnson Controls Inc.; Microsoft Corporation; Nokia Corporation; Nokia Siemens Networks; Oracle Corporation; SAP AG; Sprint Nextel Corporation; Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.; VMware, Inc.; BMC Software Inc.; and Wipro Limited. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
DOW CHEMICAL CO/THE (NYSE:DOW) - The Dow Chemical Company engages in the manufacture and supply of products used primarily as raw materials in the production of customer products and services worldwide. The Electronic and Specialty Materials segment offers materials for chemical mechanical planarization pads and slurries, chemical processing aids and intermediates, electronic displays, food and pharmaceutical processing and ingredients, home and personal care ingredients, hygiene and infection control, photolithography materials, printed circuit board materials, process and materials preservation, semiconductor packaging, connectors and industrial finishing, and water purification. Its Coatings and Infrastructure segment offers sticking and bonding solutions; insulation, housewrap, sealant, and adhesive products and systems; and construction chemical solutions and building-integrated photovoltaics. The Health and Agricultural Sciences segment provides agricultural and plant biotechnology products, pest management solutions, and healthy oils. The companys Performance Systems offers plastics, adhesives, glass bonding systems, emissions control technology, films, fluids, structural enhancement, and acoustical management solutions, as well as elastomers, specialty films, and plastic additive products, and skin and microcellular polyurethane foams and systems, and epoxy solutions and systems. Its Performance Products segment provides amines, emulsion polymers, epoxy resins, oxygenated solvents, polyurethane, and specialty monomer products. The companys Basic Plastics segment offers polyethylene, polypropylene, equipolymers, and polystyrene resins. Its Basic Chemicals segment provides ethylene dichloride, vinyl chloride monomer, caustic soda, and ethylene oxide. The Hydrocarbons and Energy segment procures fuels, natural gas liquids, and crude oil-based raw materials, as well as supplies monomers, power, and steam. The company was founded in 1897 and is based in Midland, Michigan.
ARCTIC GLACIER INCOME FD-UT (OTC:AGUNF) - Arctic Glacier Income Fund operates as an unincorporated open-ended limited purpose mutual fund trust. The company, through its subsidiary, Arctic Glacier Inc., produces, markets, and distributes packaged ice in Canada and the United States. It markets its packaged ice under the Arctic Glacier Premium Ice brand name to retail customers, such as mass merchandisers, grocery stores, and convenience stores, as well as to various commercial users, including airlines, bakeries, and meat and poultry processors. The company also sells ice in bulk quantities to various industrial users, including the food processing, construction, chemical manufacturing, commercial fishing, and other commercial industries. In addition, it sells other products, such as bottled water, dry ice, packaged wood, and rock salt, as well as sells and leases ice-making and dispensing equipment. Further, the company licenses its trade names and proprietary technology to independently owned companies in Canada and the United States under franchise and license agreements. Arctic Glacier Income Fund was founded in 1996 and is based in Winnipeg, Canada.
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