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Market Maker Surveillance Report. RBN, BZH, HPQ, LVMUY, VALE, FTR, Bullishly Biased Price Friction For Thursday, August 9th 20

^{Published on 2012-08-09 18:01:08 - WOPRAI}
 

August 9, 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 3918 companies with "abnormal" market making, 2781 companies with positive Friction Factors and 2487 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. Robbins & Myers Inc (NYSE:RBN), Beazer Homes USA Inc (NYSE:BZH), Hewlett-Packard Co (NYSE:HPQ), LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA (OTC:LVMUY), Vale SA (NYSE:VALE), Firesteel Resources Inc (NASDAQ:FTR). 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
  RBN     $12.810   27.36%    5,909,939    30.20%    7,285,060    37.22%    -1,375,121   Abnormal
  BZH     $0.190    7.12%     5,313,822    31.03%    6,179,900    36.09%    -866,078     Abnormal
  HPQ     $0.050    0.26%     6,382,441    31.86%    7,188,787    35.89%    -806,346     Abnormal
  LVMUY   $0.950    2.96%     34,202       1.82%     1,830,280    97.35%    -1,796,078   Abnormal
  VALE    $0.240    1.31%     5,599,418    26.84%    7,009,883    33.60%    -1,410,465   Abnormal
  FTR     $0.180    3.96%     6,640,356    46.52%    7,623,003    53.41%    -982,647     Abnormal

For example, the chart above shows RBN with 1,375,121 greater shares of selling than buying (NetVol) and the stock price was up $12.81000. 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.

Robbins & Myers Inc (NYSE:RBN) - Robbins & Myers, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, supplies engineered equipment and systems for various applications in energy, industrial, chemical, and pharmaceutical markets worldwide. The company operates in three segments: Fluid Management, Process Solutions, and Romaco. The Fluid Management segment engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of equipment and systems used in oil and gas exploration and recovery, specialty chemical, wastewater treatment, and various other industrial applications. Its products and systems include hydraulic drilling power sections; down-hole and industrial progressing cavity pumps and related products, such as grinders for applications involving the flow of viscous, abrasive, and solid-laden slurries and sludge; and a line of ancillary equipment, including rod guides, rod and tubing rotators, wellhead systems, pipeline closure products, and valves. The Process Solutions segment designs, manufactures, and services glass-lined reactors and storage vessels, fluid-agitation equipment and systems, thermal and other fluid systems, fluoropolymer-lined fittings, and vessels and accessories primarily for the pharmaceutical and specialty chemical markets. The Romaco segment involves in the design, manufacture, and marketing of packaging and secondary processing equipment for the pharmaceutical, healthcare, nutriceutical, food, and cosmetic industries. Its packaging applications include dosing, filling, and sealing of vials, capsules, tubes, bottles, and blisters; tablet counting and packaging for bottles; blister and powder packaging for tablets and powder; and customized packaging, as well as secondary processing for sauces and semi solids. Robbins & Myers sells its products and systems through direct sales force, distributors, manufacturer representatives, and third party distributors, as well as through service centers. The company was founded in 1878 and is based in Dayton, Ohio.

Beazer Homes USA Inc (NYSE:BZH) - Beazer Homes USA, Inc. designs, builds, and sells single-family and multi-family homes in the United States. It offers homes for entry-level, move-up, or retirement-oriented buyers. The company sells its homes through commissioned new home sales counselors and independent brokers. Beazer Homes USA, Inc. was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Hewlett-Packard Co (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.

LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA (OTC:LVMUY) - LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton engages in the manufacture and sale of luxury products worldwide. The companys luxury goods include wines and spirits; fashion and leather goods; perfumes and cosmetics; and watches and jewelry. Its wine and spirits product line primarily consists of champagne, sparkling and still wines, cognac, and various other luxury spirits. The companys fashion and leather goods product portfolio comprises trunks, leather goods, ready-to-wear, shoes, jewelry, accessories, sunglasses, books, eyewear, childrens wear, and silk accessories. Its perfumes and cosmetics product line includes fragrances, make-up, and skincare products. The company also engages in the specialty retailing of luxury goods. As of December 31, 2009, it operated approximately 2,423 stores worldwide. The company was founded in 1854 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Vale SA (NYSE:VALE) - Vale S.A., through its subsidiaries, operates as a diversified metals and mining company worldwide. The company produces iron ore and iron ore pellets, nickel, manganese ore, ferroalloys, kaolin, and pig iron. It also engages in producing bauxite, alumina, aluminum, copper, metallurgical and thermal coal, metallurgical coke and methanol, cobalt, potash, and other non-ferrous minerals, as well as precious metals, including platinum-group metals, gold, and silver. In addition, the company operates logistics systems in Brazil, including railroads, maritime terminals, and a port. Further, it engages in power generation through hydro and oil and gas resources; and steel production. The company was formerly known as Companhia Vale do Rio Doce. Vale S.A. was founded in 1942 and is based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Firesteel Resources Inc (NASDAQ:FTR) - Frontier Communications Corporation, a communications company, provides regulated and unregulated voice, data, and video services to residential, business, and wholesale customers in the United States. It offers local and long distance voice services, including basic telephone wireline services to residential and business customers; switched access services that allow other carriers to use the facilities to originate and terminate their long distance voice and data traffic; and directory services that provide white and yellow page directories for residential and business listings. The company also provides data and Internet services, which include residential services comprising high-speed Internet, dial up Internet, portal and e-mail products, and hard drive back-up services; and commercial and carriers services, such as metro Ethernet; dedicated Internet; Internet protocol, optical, multiprotocol label switching, and TDM data transport services. In addition, it offers direct broadcast satellite services and fiber optic video services, as well as provides online access to video content, entertainment, and news available on the worldwide Web through its Web site myfitv.com. The company was formerly known as Citizens Communications Company and changed its name to Frontier Communications Corporation in July 2008. Frontier Communications Corporation was founded in 1927 and is based in Stamford, Connecticut.

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