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Market Maker Surveillance Report. C, NVDA, ODP, CFN, ITUB, PRTN, Bullishly Biased Price Friction For Friday, August 24th 2012

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August 24, 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 4011 companies with "abnormal" market making, 3065 companies with positive Friction Factors and 2197 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. Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C), NVIDIA Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA), Office Depot Inc (NYSE:ODP), Carfinco Financial Group Inc (NYSE:CFN), Itau Unibanco Holding SA (NYSE:ITUB), (:PRTN). 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       $0.020    0.07%     9,058,535    30.51%    12,607,995   42.46%    -3,549,460   Abnormal
  NVDA    $0.340    2.38%     3,510,835    40.40%    5,134,492    59.08%    -1,623,657   Abnormal
  ODP     $0.010    0.66%     643,980      17.20%    2,077,077    55.47%    -1,433,097   Abnormal
  CFN     $0.080    0.30%     523,042      20.94%    1,507,079    60.32%    -984,037     Abnormal
  ITUB    $0.020    0.10%     3,018,717    26.08%    4,147,403    35.83%    -1,128,686   Abnormal
  PRTN    $0.088    58.53%    2,598,037    11.49%    12,287,458   54.34%    -9,689,421   Abnormal

For example, the chart above shows C with 3,549,460 greater shares of selling than buying (NetVol) and the stock price was up $0.02000. 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.

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.

NVIDIA Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA) - Nvidia Corporation provides visual computing technologies that generate interactive graphics on workstations, personal computers, game consoles, and mobile devices. It operates in four segments: Graphic Processing Unit (GPU), Professional Solutions Business (PSB), Media and Communications Processor (MCP), and Consumer Products Business (CPB). The GPU segment offers GeForce products that support desktop and notebook personal computers, PCs, and plus memory products. The PSB segment provides NVIDIA Quadro professional workstation products and other professional graphics products, including NVIDIA Tesla high-performance computing products used in the manufacturing, entertainment, medical, science, and aerospace industries. This segment also offers RealityServer, which streams interactive and photorealistic 3D applications to Web- connected PCs, laptops, netbooks, or smart phones; Quadro Plex SVS, a visual computing platform for professionals who interact with 3D models and analyze data; and the OptiX ray tracing engine, an application acceleration engine for software developers. The MCP segment provides ION NVIDIA motherboard GPU that addresses the integrated core logic market. The CPB segment offers Tegra mobile products that support tablets and smartbooks, smartphones, personal media players, Internet television, automotive navigation, and other devices. This segment also licenses video game consoles and other digital consumer electronics devices. The company sells its products to original equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers, add-in-card manufacturers, and system builders operating in the entertainment and consumer, consumer electronics, professional design and visualization, computing, and mobile computing markets. NVIDIA Corporation has a strategic partnership with Glu Mobile, Inc. to deliver gaming experiences to Android-powered tablets and mobile devices. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

Office Depot Inc (NYSE:ODP) - Office Depot, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, supplies office products and services. Its North American Retail division sells an assortment of merchandise, such as general office supplies, computer supplies, business machines and related supplies, and office furniture under various labels, including Office Depot, Viking Office Products, Foray, Ativa, Break Escapes, Niceday, and Worklife through its chain of office supply stores. It also provides printing, reproduction, mailing, shipping, and other services, as well as personal computer support and network installation service. As of December 25, 2010, this division operated 1,147 office supply stores in the United States and Canada. The companys North American Business Solutions division sells nationally branded and private brand office supplies, technology products, furniture, and services to small- to medium-sized customers through a dedicated sales force, catalogs, and Internet. Its International division sells office products and services through direct mail catalogs, contract sales forces, Internet sites, and retail stores using a mix of company-owned operations, joint ventures, licensing and franchise agreements, alliances, and other arrangements. As of December 25, 2010, it sold its office products to customers in 53 countries in North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. This division operated, through wholly-owned or majority-owned entities, 97 retail stores in France, Hungary, South Korea, and Sweden; and participates under licensing and merchandise arrangements in South Korea, Thailand, India, Israel, Japan, and the Middle East. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida.

Carfinco Financial Group Inc (NYSE:CFN) - CareFusion Corporation, a medical technology company, provides various healthcare products and services in the United States and internationally. It operates in two segments, Critical Care Technologies, and Medical Technologies and Services. The Critical Care Technologies segment develops, manufactures, and markets equipment and related supplies for infusion, medication and supply dispensing, and respiratory care. Its products include intravenous medication safety and infusion therapy delivery systems comprising disposables, software applications, and related patient monitoring equipments; automated dispensing machines and related applications for distributing and managing medication and medical supplies; and equipment and supplies for ventilation, and respiratory and sleep diagnostics. The Medical Technologies and Services segment develops, manufactures, and markets disposable infection prevention products, software-based infection detection services, surgical and diagnostic instrumentation, and neurological monitoring equipments. It offers skin disinfectant and other patient-preparation products; hair-removal and skin-care products; infection detection software; custom surgical procedure kits; surgical instruments and related products and services; and interventional specialty products, such as diagnostic trays and biopsy needles, drainage catheters and vertebral augmentation products; and neurological monitoring and diagnostic products. The company serves hospitals and other healthcare facilities comprising oncology clinics, ambulatory surgical centers, clinics, long-term care facilities, and physician offices. CareFusion Corporation sells its products and services through a combination of direct sales representatives, wholesalers, and third-party distributors. CareFusion Corporation was incorporated in 2009 and is based in San Diego, California.

Itau Unibanco Holding SA (NYSE:ITUB) - Ita Unibanco Holding S.A., together with its subsidiaries, provides commercial, corporate, and investment banking services to individuals, small and middle-market companies, and large corporations in Brazil and internationally. The companys deposit products include demand, savings, time, and other deposits, as well as deposits from banks. Its loan portfolio comprises commercial, real estate, lease financing, government, agricultural, and personal loans. The company also offers pension fund and mutual fund management, securities services, credit cards, and asset management services; life, property, casualty, and vehicle insurance, as well as private retirement plans and capitalization products; and credit products, such as investment capital loans, working capital loans, inventory financing, equipment leasing services, and letters of credit. In addition, it provides collection and electronic payment services; credit card transactions; factoring, corporate finance, and insurance brokerage and trading; and vehicle lending, private banking, and treasury services. Further, the company offers financial products, such as trade financing, loans from multilateral credit agencies, off-shore loans, international cash management services, foreign exchange, letters of credit, guarantees required in international bidding processes, derivatives for hedging or proprietary trading purposes, structured transactions, and international capital markets offerings. As of December 31, 2009, it operated 3,936 branches, 948 customer site branches, and 30,276 automated teller machines in Brazil and internationally. Ita Unibanco Holding S.A. was formerly known as Ita Unibanco Banco Mltiplo S.A. and changed its name to Ita Unibanco Holding S.A. in April 2009. The company was founded in 1944 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Ita Unibanco Holding S.A. operates as a subsidiary of Itau Unibanco Participacoes S.A.

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