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Market Maker Surveillance Report. AMBO, FRAN, NOKBF, TNGN, VRS, LAS, Losing Stocks With Lowest Price Friction For Wednesday, S


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September 5, 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 4042 companies with "abnormal" market making, 2195 companies with positive Friction Factors and 3083 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top companies with the largest percentage loss per share Wednesday and low price friction (bearish). This means that there was more selling than buying in the stocks and their stock prices dropped faster with less Friction. Ambow Education Holding Ltd (NYSE:AMBO), Francesca's Holdings Corp (NASDAQ:FRAN), NOKIA OYJ (OTC:NOKBF), Tengion Inc (NASDAQ:TNGN), Verso Paper Corp (NYSE:VRS), Lentuo International Inc (NYSE:LAS). 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
  AMBO    $-0.830   -26.77%   50,585       23.72%    63,603       29.82%    -13,018      -157    
  FRAN    $-6.010   -16.66%   4,497,438    46.81%    4,919,562    51.20%    -422,124     -702    
  NOKBF   $-0.608   -20.35%   382,463      11.61%    606,884      18.43%    -224,421     -3,691  
  TNGN    $-0.420   -22.34%   26,700       47.54%    29,464       52.46%    -2,764       -66     
  VRS     $-0.270   -13.50%   121,785      34.73%    158,286      45.14%    -36,501      -1,352  
  LAS     $-0.390   -19.31%   103,124      25.69%    143,543      35.76%    -40,419      -1,036  
Analysis of the Friction Factor chart above shows that each of the six stocks mentioned above have high net dollar losses (Change) and extremely low price friction in their stocks. 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 AMBO with a dollar loss Wednesday of $-0.83000 and a Friction Factor of -157 shares. That means that it only took 157 more shares of selling than buying to move AMBO lower by one penny. This means the Market Makers are allowing the stock to drop quickly (low friction). The combination of low friction and negative market direction can drive prices lower faster than normal.

Ambow Education Holding Ltd (NYSE:AMBO) - Ambow Education Holding Ltd. provides educational and career enhancement services in high school entrance examination and college entrance examination markets in China. The company operates through two business lines, Better Schools that represents K-12 degree programs and tutoring services with curriculum that enables students to improve their academic results and educational opportunities, and Better Jobs that comprises career enhancement service programs that facilitate post-secondary students to obtain employment. Its Better Schools program focuses on the preparation for the senior high school and university entrance examinations, known as the Zhongkao and Gaokao, respectively; and offers Web-based software to allow students the access to tutoring services. The Better Schools program offers primary education products that provide online video classes, practice tests, and discussion forums for K-12 level students under the name, eBoPo. Under the Better Schools program, the company operates 6 primary and secondary schools and 96 tutoring centers, which are located in 15 educational regional service hubs. Ambow Education Holdings Better Jobs program provides career enhancement products and services for students, graduates, and employers; and focuses on IT services and digital media training through 2 independent colleges and 16 career enhancement centers. The Better Jobs program offers students with hands-on training for professional skills, including case studies, job environment simulation, and specific technical skills; teaches soft skills, such as courses on time management, presentation, leadership, and interview techniques to help graduates transition from academic life to the business world; and provides corporate training programs, which are designed jointly with its partners to tailor programs based upon the future needs of their employees. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Beijing, China.

Francesca's Holdings Corp (NASDAQ:FRAN) - Francisco Industries, Inc. is based in Summit, New Jersey.

NOKIA OYJ (OTC:NOKBF) - Nokia Corporation manufactures and sells mobile devices, and provides Internet and digital mapping and navigation services worldwide. Its Devices & Services segment develops and manages a portfolio of mobile devices, such as mobile phones, smartphones, and mobile computers; services; applications; and content. It also offers Internet services focusing on music, navigation, media, and messaging, as well as on the tools that enable developers to create applications under the Ovi brand name. The companys NAVTEQ segment provides various digital map information and related location-based content and services to mobile device and handset manufacturers, automobile manufacturers and dealers, navigation systems manufacturers, software developers, Internet portals, parcel and overnight delivery services companies, and governmental and quasi-governmental entities. Its map database enables its customers to offer advanced driver assistance systems, dynamic navigation, route planning, location-based services, and other geographic information-based products and services to consumer and commercial users. Its Nokia Siemens Networks segment provides mobile and fixed network solutions and related services to operators and service providers. This segment offers various business solutions, such as consulting and systems integration; network and service management, and charging and billing software; and subscriber database management. It also provides managed services, such as network planning, optimization, and network operations; software and hardware maintenance, proactive, and multi-vendor care, as well as competence development services; and project management, turnkey implementations, and energy efficient sites. In addition, this segment offers fixed and mobile network infrastructure, including Flexi base stations, optical transport systems, and broadband access equipment, as well as network solutions. Nokia Corporation was founded in 1865 and is based in Espoo, Finland.

Tengion Inc (NASDAQ:TNGN) - Tengion, Inc., a regenerative medicine company, focuses on discovering, developing, manufacturing, and commercializing a range of replacement organs and tissues, or neo-organs and neo-tissues to address unmet medical needs in urologic, renal, gastrointestinal and vascular diseases. It creates these functional neo-organs and neo-tissues using a patients own cells, or autologous cells, in conjunction with the companys Organ Regeneration Platform. The companys lead product candidate, the Neo-Urinary Conduit, is an autologous implant that catalyzes regeneration of native-like bladder tissue for bladder cancer patients requiring a urinary diversion following bladder removal, or cystectomy. Its product pipeline also includes various candidates in early stage development, such as Neo-Kidney Augment for patients with advanced chronic kidney disease, or CKD. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in East Norriton, Pennsylvania.

Verso Paper Corp (NYSE:VRS) - Verso Paper Corp., through its subsidiaries, engages in the production and sale of coated papers in North America. The company offers coated groundwood paper, which is used primarily for catalogs and magazines; and coated freesheet paper that is used primarily for annual reports, brochures, magazine covers, and direct mail advertising. It also provides supercalendered paper, which is primarily used for retail inserts and specialty papers; and northern bleached hardwood kraft pulp that is used to manufacture printing and writing paper grades, and tissue products. In addition, the company offers specialty papers for applications in flexible packaging; recycled paper to help meet specific customer requirements; customized product solutions by producing paper grades with customer-specified weight, brightness, and pulp mix characteristics. Further, it provides ultra-lightweight uncoated printing papers and ultra-lightweight coated and uncoated flexible packaging papers. The company markets its products to magazine and catalog publishers, commercial printers, specialty retail merchandisers, and paper merchants. It sells its products through various channels, including printers, brokers, paper merchants, and direct sales to end-users. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee. Verso Paper Corp. is a subsidiary of Verso Paper Management LP.

Lentuo International Inc (NYSE:LAS) - Lentuo International Inc. operates as an automobile retailer in the Peoples Republic of China. It sells passenger vehicles, auto parts, and accessories; offers automobile repair and maintenance services; and provides a channel for vehicle manufacturers to gather customer feedback. The company also offers its customers assistance with procuring automobile insurance and financing and other automobile-related services. In addition, Lentuo International provides luxury or specialty vehicles on rent for business use by corporations or corporate executives. As of June 30, 2010, it operated 6 franchise dealerships, 10 automobile showrooms, and 1 automobile repair shop in the Beijing metropolitan area. The company was founded in 1994 and is based in Beijing, the Peoples Republic of China.

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