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Market Maker Surveillance Report. BSX, AVP, CMVT, FITB, ALU, ROVI, Bearishly Biased Price Friction For Wednesday, July 18th 20

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July 18, 2012 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for Wednesday. 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 Wednesday there were 3894 companies with "abnormal" market making, 3156 companies with positive Friction Factors and 2180 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. Boston Scientific Corp (NYSE:BSX), Avon Products Inc (NYSE:AVP), Comverse Technology Inc (NASDAQ:CMVT), Fifth Third Bancorp (NASDAQ:FITB), Alcatel Lucent SA (NYSE:ALU), Rovi Corp (NASDAQ:ROVI). 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
  BSX     $-0.070   -1.24%    4,701,135    34.73%    3,354,388    24.78%    1,346,747    Abnormal
  AVP     $-0.230   -1.40%    3,732,699    37.46%    2,347,249    23.56%    1,385,450    Abnormal
  CMVT    $-0.110   -1.99%    3,844,264    77.86%    1,093,004    22.14%    2,751,260    Abnormal
  FITB    $-0.140   -1.01%    4,623,187    55.71%    3,649,129    43.97%    974,058      Abnormal
  ALU     $-0.020   -1.80%    9,479,087    43.04%    7,491,181    34.02%    1,987,906    Abnormal
  ROVI    $-7.690   -43.57%   15,799,000   50.20%    13,986,238   44.44%    1,812,762    Abnormal

For example, the chart above shows BSX with 1,346,747 greater shares of buying than selling (NetVol) and the stock price was down $-0.07000. 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.

Boston Scientific Corp (NYSE:BSX) - Boston Scientific Corporation develops, manufactures, and markets medical devices used in various interventional medical specialties worldwide. It offers cardiac rhythm management products, which monitor the heart and deliver electricity to treat cardiac abnormalities; and RF generators, intracardiac ultrasound and steerable ablation catheters, and diagnostic catheters for the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. The company also provides interventional cardiology products, such as coronary stent systems, coronary revascularization products to treat patients with atherosclerosis and intraluminal catheter-directed ultrasound imaging catheters and systems; vascular access products, balloon catheters, stents and peripheral vascular catheters, wires, and accessories, as well as products for peripheral embolization procedures; and biliary stents, drainage catheters, and micro-puncture sets to treat, diagnose, and ease various forms of benign and malignant tumors. In addition, it offers coated and uncoated detachable coils, micro-delivery stents, micro-guidewires, micro-catheters, guiding catheters, and embolics to neuro-interventional radiologists and neurosurgeons to treat diseases of the neurovascular system; and endoscopy and interventional bronchoscopy products to diagnose and treat various digestive diseases, as well as pulmonary disease systems within the airway and lungs. Further, the company provides urology/womens health products to treat patients with urinary stone disease, benign prostatic hyperplasia, stress urinary incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, and excessive uterine bleeding; and spinal cord stimulation system for the management of chronic intractable pain of the trunk and/or limbs. Boston Scientific Corporation markets its products through direct sales force, and a network of distributors and dealers. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts with additional offices in Tokyo, Japan and Paris, France.

Avon Products Inc (NYSE:AVP) - Avon Products Inc. manufactures and markets beauty and related products worldwide. Its product categories include color cosmetics, fragrances, skin care, and personal care; fashion jewelry, watches, apparel, footwear, and accessories; and gift and decorative products, housewares, entertainment and leisure, and childrens and nutritional products. Avon Products Inc. markets its products through direct selling and independent representatives, as well as through distributorships. The company was founded in 1886 and is based in New York, New York.

Comverse Technology Inc (NASDAQ:CMVT) - Comverse Technology, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides software-based products, systems, and related services that offer prepaid, postpaid, and converged billing and active customer management for wireless, wireline, and cable network operators. Its products also enable wireless and wireline network-based value-added services, such as voicemail, call completion, visual voicemail, short messaging service, multimedia picture and video messaging, mobile Internet access, and Internet Protocol communications. The company also provides actionable intelligence solutions in order to capture, distill, and analyze complex and underused information sources, such as voice, video, and unstructured text. In addition, it offers workforce optimization solutions to the enterprise market, which help organizations enhance customer service operations in contact centers, branches, and back-office environments; and video intelligence, public safety, and communications intelligence solutions to the security intelligence market for use by government and commercial organizations. Further, the company provides wireless service mobility solutions to enable international roaming. Its software-based solutions direct international roaming traffic to preferred networks, and provide a range of services to subscribers traveling outside their home network. The company sells its products to distributors, resellers, value-added resellers, and original equipment manufacturers, as well as offers technical software support, training, and professional services. It has operations in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific. Comverse Technology, Inc. was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in New York.

Fifth Third Bancorp (NASDAQ:FITB) - Fifth Third Bancorp operates as a diversified financial services holding company. The companys Commercial Banking segment offers banking, cash management, and financial services; traditional lending and depository products and services; and other services, including foreign exchange and international trade finance, derivatives and capital markets services, asset-based lending, real estate finance, public finance, commercial leasing, and syndicated finance for business, government, and professional customers. Its Branch Banking segment provides deposit and loan, and lease products to individuals and corporations. Its products include checking and savings accounts, home equity loans and lines of credit, credit cards, and loans for automobile and personal financing needs. The companys Consumer Lending segment involves in mortgage and home equity lending activities, such as origination, retention, and servicing of mortgage and home equity loans; and other indirect lending activities, which include loans to consumers through mortgage brokers, automobile dealers, and federal and private student education loans. Its Investment Advisors segment offers investment alternatives for individuals, companies, and not-for-profit organizations. It offers retail brokerage services to individual clients, and broker dealer services to the institutional marketplace. This segment also provides asset management services; holistic strategies to affluent clients in wealth planning, investing, insurance, and wealth protection; and advisory services for institutional clients, as well as advises the companys proprietary family of mutual funds. As of December 31, 2009, the company operated 1,309 full-service banking centers, including 103 Bank Mart locations and 2,358 Jeanie ATMs in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Florida, Tennessee, North Carolina, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Missouri, and Georgia. The company was founded in 1862 and is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Alcatel Lucent SA (NYSE:ALU) - Alcatel-Lucent offers products, solutions, and transformation services that enable service providers, enterprises, governments, and strategic industries to deliver voice, data, and video communication services to end-users worldwide. It engages in the development and sale of software and related services to manage customer interactions. The company offers a software suite that connects customers with the resources to fulfill customer requests and meet customer care goals. It also provides software and related services, which support service provider business priorities in the areas of application innovation, enhanced communications, digital media, real-time rating and charging, and subscriber data management, as well as offers tools for providers to enable consumers set up and manage their mobile devices and services at-home. In addition, the company offers voice telephony and data networking solutions; and end-to-end communications networks and individual network elements, as well as designs and sells a suite of radio frequency products, such as cable, antenna, tower systems, and their related electronic components. Further, the company designs, integrates, manages, and maintains networks. Alcatel-Lucent is headquartered in Paris, France.

Rovi Corp (NASDAQ:ROVI) - Rovi Corporation provides digital entertainment technology solutions for the discovery and management of entertainment content. It offers guidance, home network connection, content protection, and media recognition technologies, as well as extensive metadata on movies, music, games, television, and books. The companys media guide technology is an interactive on-screen portal to entertainment content from the Internet, broadcast, and personal content. It also provides other interactive program guides (IPG) for the consumer electronic, and cable and satellite provider market. These program guides help viewers navigate through, sort, select, and schedule video programming for viewing and recording. In addition, Rovi Corporation offers home networking technology to simplify the transfer of content from one device to another within the home. The companys extensive entertainment metadata portfolio is used in its guidance and media recognition technologies, as well as licensed to online entertainment content distributors. Further, it offers advertising services targeted at consumers on its IPGs. The company provides legacy content protection technologies as deterrence for unauthorized consumer copying of such programming on VCRs and recordable DVD devices. It primarily serves entertainment, consumer electronics, cable and satellite, and online distribution markets. The company was formerly known as Macrovision Solutions Corporation and changed its name to Rovi Corporation on July 16, 2009. Rovi Corporation was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

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