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Market Maker Surveillance Report. ICRD, RTK, FITB, CMLS, NIHD, ALU, Bullishly Biased Price Friction For Friday, September 7th

^{Published on 2012-09-07 18:00:54 - WOPRAI}
 

September 7, 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 4076 companies with "abnormal" market making, 3523 companies with positive Friction Factors and 1937 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. International Card Establishment Inc (OTC:ICRD), Rentech Inc (AMEX:RTK), Fifth Third Bancorp (NASDAQ:FITB), Cumulus Media Inc (NASDAQ:CMLS), NII Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:NIHD), Alcatel Lucent SA (NYSE:ALU). 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
  ICRD    $0.027    809.09%   1,642,297    28.98%    3,622,082    63.90%    -1,979,785   Abnormal
  RTK     $0.030    1.31%     563,583      12.59%    2,574,909    57.52%    -2,011,326   Abnormal
  FITB    $0.240    1.63%     5,072,109    44.69%    6,259,501    55.15%    -1,187,392   Abnormal
  CMLS    $0.040    1.45%     71,567       5.55%     1,217,922    94.45%    -1,146,355   Abnormal
  NIHD    $0.220    3.36%     1,986,112    20.27%    7,766,210    79.27%    -5,780,098   Abnormal
  ALU     $0.040    3.60%     2,763,126    28.26%    3,990,486    40.82%    -1,227,360   Abnormal

For example, the chart above shows ICRD with 1,979,785 greater shares of selling than buying (NetVol) and the stock price was up $0.02670. 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.

International Card Establishment Inc (OTC:ICRD) - International Card Establishment, Inc. provides merchant payment processing services and gift and loyalty card products to the small to medium enterprise segment of the merchant marketplace in the United States. Its payment processing services enable merchants to process traditional card-present, or swipe transactions, as well as card-not-present transactions. The company establishes merchant accounts for businesses that enable those businesses to accept credit cards, debit cards, and other forms of electronic payments from their customers; supplies the necessary card readers and other point-of-sale transaction systems; facilitates processing for the accounts; and provides e-commerce solutions. It also markets a proprietary Smart Card-based system that enables merchants to offer private label gift and loyalty cards. The company is based in Camarillo, California.

Rentech Inc (AMEX:RTK) - Rentech Inc. provides clean energy solutions to produce ultra-clean synthetic fuels and chemicals. The company owns a proprietary technology of the Fischer-Tropsch process, called Rentech Process, which converts synthesis gas derived from various biomass, waste, and fossil resources into hydrocarbons, which can be processed and upgraded into ultra-clean synthetic fuels, such as military and commercial jet fuels, and ultra low sulfur diesel fuel, as well as specialty waxes and chemicals. Its technology portfolio also includes the Rentech-SilvaGas biomass gasification technology, which enables the company to offer integrated technologies that can convert biomass and wastes to synthesis gas and subsequently into clean fuels and electric power. Rentech Inc. is developing projects to produce certified synthetic fuels and electric power from carbon-containing materials, such as biomass, waste, and fossil resources, as well as pursuing licensing opportunities in the United States and internationally. It has an alliance with UOP that provides a solution to developers of commercial synthetic fuels facilities worldwide for synthesis gas clean-up, conversion, and product upgrading. The company, through its subsidiary, Rentech Energy Midwest Corporation, also manufactures and sells anhydrous ammonia, nitric acid, ammonium nitrate solution, liquid and granular urea, nitrogen solutions, and carbon dioxide using natural gas as a feedstock. Rentech Inc. was founded in 1980 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

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.

Cumulus Media Inc (NASDAQ:CMLS) - Cumulus Media, Inc., a radio broadcasting company, engages in the acquisition, operation, and development of commercial radio stations in mid-size radio markets in the United States. It owns and operates FM and AM radio station clusters that serve mid-sized markets. The company, through its investment in Cumulus Media Partners, LLC, also operates radio station clusters serving large-sized markets. As of December 31, 2009, it owned and operated 314 radio stations in 59 mid-sized United States media markets; and operated 30 radio stations in 9 markets, including San Francisco, Dallas, Houston, and Atlanta that were owned by Cumulus Media Partners, LLC. In addition, through local marketing agreements, the company provides sales and marketing services for 12 radio stations in the United States. Cumulus Media, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

NII Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:NIHD) - NII Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides wireless communication services to businesses and individuals primarily in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, and Chile. Its services include mobile telephone services comprising various calling features, such as speakerphone, conference calling, voice-mail, call forwarding, and additional line service; and Nextel Direct Connect service, which allows subscribers anywhere on its network to talk to each other on a push-to-talk basis, private one-to-one call, or on a group call. The company also offers International Direct Connect service, which allows subscribers to communicate with its subscribers in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Chile, the United States, and Canada. In addition, it provides various services, such as text messaging; mobile Internet; e-mail services; location-based services, which include the use of global positioning system technologies, digital media services, and Java enabled business applications; and international roaming services. Further, the company offers two-way radio service. NII Holdings, Inc. provides its products and services under the Nextel brand name. The company sells its products and services through direct sales representatives, indirect sales agents, telesales, Nextel retail stores, shopping center kiosks, and Web site. It was formerly known as Nextel International, Inc. and changed its name to NII Holdings, Inc. in December 2001. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Reston, Virginia.

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.

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