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Market Maker Surveillance Report. SLB, CSCO, GPS, TER, AMD, SPLS, Bearishly Biased Price Friction For Tuesday, September 18th

^{Published on 2012-09-18 18:01:21 - WOPRAI}
 

September 18, 2012 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for Tuesday. 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 Tuesday there were 4001 companies with "abnormal" market making, 2464 companies with positive Friction Factors and 3051 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. Schlumberger NV (NYSE:SLB), CISCO SYSTEMS INCORPORATED (NASDAQ:CSCO), Gap Inc (NYSE:GPS), Teradyne Inc (NYSE:TER), Advanced Micro Devices Inc (NYSE:AMD), Staples Inc (NASDAQ:SPLS). 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
  SLB     $-0.900   -1.17%    2,703,371    37.94%    1,695,903    23.80%    1,007,468    Abnormal
  CSCO    $-0.100   -0.52%    22,161,092   49.76%    16,727,155   37.56%    5,433,937    Abnormal
  GPS     $-0.040   -0.11%    6,535,116    41.48%    4,321,322    27.43%    2,213,794    Abnormal
  TER     $-0.520   -3.31%    3,023,611    46.24%    1,601,050    24.48%    1,422,561    Abnormal
  AMD     $-0.390   -9.73%    31,195,417   34.37%    29,807,104   32.84%    1,388,313    Abnormal
  SPLS    $-0.040   -0.33%    6,334,694    56.09%    4,939,228    43.74%    1,395,466    Abnormal

For example, the chart above shows SLB with 1,007,468 greater shares of buying than selling (NetVol) and the stock price was down $-0.90000. 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.

Schlumberger NV (NYSE:SLB) - Schlumberger Limited and its subsidiaries supply technology, integrated project management, and information solutions to the oil and gas industry worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Oilfield Services and WesternGeco. The Oilfield Services segment provides a range of exploration and production services required during the life of an oil and gas reservoir. It offers Wireline technologies comprising open-hole and cased-hole services; directional-drilling, measurement-while-drilling, and logging-while-drilling services; exploration and production pressure and flow-rate measurement services at the surface and downhole; services used during oil and gas well drilling and completion; and services used to maintain optimal production throughout the life of a well. This segment also provides well completion services and equipment; artificial lift; data and consulting services; and information solutions, including consulting, software, information management, and IT infrastructure services that support oil and gas industry operational processes. The WesternGeco segment provides reservoir imaging, monitoring, and development services, as well as operates data processing centers, and multiclient seismic library. Its services range from 3D and time-lapse (4D) seismic surveys to multi-component surveys for delineating prospects and reservoir management. The company has a joint venture agreement with National Oilwell Varco, Incorporated to provide high speed drill string telemetry systems. Schlumberger Limited was founded in 1927 and is based in Houston, Texas..

CISCO SYSTEMS INCORPORATED (NASDAQ:CSCO) - Cisco Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells Internet protocol (IP)-based networking and other products related to the communications and information technology industry worldwide. It offers routers that interconnect public and private IP networks for mobile, data, voice, and video applications; switching products, which offer connectivity to end users, workstations, IP phones, access points, and servers; application networking services; and home networking products, such as adapters, gateways, modems, and home network management software products. The company also provides security products comprising span firewall, intrusion prevention, remote access, virtual private network, unified client, Web, and email security products; storage area networking products that deliver connectivity between servers and storage systems; unified communication products to integrate voice, video, data, and mobile applications on fixed and mobile networks; video systems, including digital set-top boxes and digital media products; and wireless systems. In addition, it offers optical networking products, cable access and flip video products, service provider VoIP services, Cisco TelePresence systems, Cisco Unified Computing Systems, physical security and video surveillances, digital media systems, and building systems. Further, the company provides technical support services; and responsive, preventive, and consultative support services for its technologies. Cisco Systems, Inc. has strategic alliances with Accenture Ltd; AT&T Inc.; Cap Gemini S.A.; EMC Corporation; Fujitsu Limited; Intel Corporation; International Business Machines Corporation; Italtel SpA; Johnson Controls Inc.; Microsoft Corporation; Nokia Corporation; Nokia Siemens Networks; Oracle Corporation; SAP AG; Sprint Nextel Corporation; Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.; VMware, Inc.; BMC Software Inc.; and Wipro Limited. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in San Jose, California..

Gap Inc (NYSE:GPS) - The Gap, Inc. operates as a specialty retailing company. The company offers apparel, accessories, and personal care products for men, women, children, and babies under the Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic, Piperlime, and Athleta brand names. Its products include wardrobe basics, such as denim, khakis, and T-shirts; fashion apparel; casual apparel and accessories; maternity apparel; womens underwear, sleepwear, loungewear, and sports and active apparel; and shoes and accessories. The company also has franchise agreements with unaffiliated franchisees to operate stores in Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East under the Gap and Banana Republic brand names. It operates approximately 3,246 company-operated and franchise store locations. The company operates company-operated stores in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Ireland, Japan, China, and Italy. In addition, it offers its products through catalogs, as well as through gap.com, oldnavy.com, bananarepublic.com, piperlime.com, and athleta.com Websites. The Gap, Inc. was founded in 1969 and is based in San Francisco, California..

Teradyne Inc (NYSE:TER) - Teradyne, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides automatic test equipment products and services worldwide. It operates in two segments, Semiconductor Test and Systems Test Group. The Semiconductor Test segment designs, manufactures, and markets semiconductor test products and services. Its test systems are used for wafer level and device package testing. These chips are used in automotive, communications, consumer, computer, and electronic game applications. This segment provides its products to integrated device manufacturers (IDMs) that integrate the fabrication of silicon wafers into their business; Fabless companies, which outsource the manufacturing of silicon wafers; Foundries that cater to the processing and manufacturing of silicon wafers; and outsourced sub-assembly and test providers, which offer test and assembly services for the final packaged devices to both Fabless companies and IDMs. It also provides Magnum test platform that tests memory devices, such as flash memory and dynamic random access memory, which are used in electronic products, as well as offers ETS platform for use by semiconductor manufacturers and assembly and test subcontractors in the low pin count analog/mixed signal discrete markets. The Systems Test Group segment designs, develops, manufactures, and sells military/aerospace test instrumentation and systems, hard disk drive test systems, circuit-board test and inspection systems, and automotive diagnostic and test systems. It sells its products to the electronics manufacturers of cell phones, servers, computers, Internet switches, automobiles, and military avionics systems. The company was founded in 1960 and is based in North Reading, Massachusetts..

Advanced Micro Devices Inc (NYSE:AMD) - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. operates as a semiconductor company in the United States, Japan, China, and Europe. Its microprocessors for server platforms include multi-core AMD Opteron processors; notebook PC platforms consist of the AMD Dual-Core Accelerated Processor E-350, AMD Dual-Core Accelerated Processor C-50, AMD Phenom II Dual-Core Mobile Processor, AMD Phenom II Quad-Core Mobile Processor, AMD Turion X2 Mobile Processor, AMD Turion II Mobile Processor, AMD Turion II Ultra Mobile Processor, AMD Turion Neo X2 Mobile Processor, AMD Athlon II processor, AMD Athlon Neo processor, AMD Athlon Neo X2 Dual-Core processor, and the Mobile AMD Sempron processor products; and desktop PC platforms comprise AMD Phenom II, AMD Phenom, AMD Athlon II, AMD Athlon X2, AMD Athlon, and AMD Sempron processors. It also provides embedded processor products for vendors in industrial controls, digital signage, point of sale/self-service kiosks, medical imaging, set-top box, and casino gaming machines, as well as enterprise class telecommunications, networking, security, storage systems and thin-clients, or computers. In addition, the company offers chipset products, including integrated graphics processor chipsets and discrete chipsets for desktop and notebook PCs, professional workstations, and servers. Further, it provides graphic products consisting of 3D graphics, and video and multimedia products for use in desktop and notebook computers, such as home media PCs, professional workstations, and servers, as well as technology for game consoles. The company's graphics products comprise discrete desktop graphics, discrete notebook graphics, professional graphics, FireStream processors, and game consoles. It serves original equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers, system builders, and independent distributors through direct sales force, independent distributors, and sales representatives. The company was founded in 1969 and is based in Sunnyvale, California..

Staples Inc (NASDAQ:SPLS) - Staples, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an office products company. The company sells various office supplies and services, business machines and related products, computers and related products, and office furniture. It also provides high-speed, color and self-service copying, other printing services, faxing, and pack and ship services. As of January 30, 2010, the company operated approximately 2,243 superstores in 48 states and the District of Columbia in the United States, and 10 provinces and 2 territories in Canada, as well as in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the People's Republic of China, Argentina, and Australia. It also operated 125 distribution and fulfillment centers in 29 states in the United States and 8 provinces in Canada, as well as in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the People's Republic of China, Argentina, Brazil, and Australia. The company also offers its products through catalogs, Internet, and sales force. Staples, Inc. was founded in 1986 and is based in Framingham, Massachusetts..

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