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Market Maker Surveillance Report. PBCT, ASML, MHP, AONE, TWO, FB, Highest Net Buy Volume With Lowest Price Friction For Friday

^{Published on 2012-10-19 18:00:52 - WOPRAI}
 

October 19, 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 3911 companies with "abnormal" market making, 1464 companies with positive Friction Factors and 4063 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top companies with the highest net buy volume on Friday and lowest price Friction (bullish). This means that there was more buying than selling in the stocks and their stock prices rose faster with less Friction. People's United Financial Inc (NASDAQ:PBCT), ASML Holding NV (NASDAQ:ASML), McGraw-Hill Companies Inc (NYSE:MHP), A123 Systems Inc (NASDAQ:AONE), Twoco Petroleums Ltd (NYSE:TWO), Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB). 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
  PBCT    $0.250    2.08%     5,383,074    53.55%    4,655,120    46.31%    727,954      29,118  
  ASML    $0.540    1.06%     5,694,205    55.54%    3,913,199    38.17%    1,781,006    32,982  
  MHP     $0.290    0.52%     1,515,243    47.03%    530,521      16.46%    984,722      33,956  
  AONE    $0.050    64.67%    54,016,875   51.19%    51,506,562   48.81%    2,510,313    502,063 
  TWO     $0.050    0.45%     2,411,618    42.56%    1,496,998    26.42%    914,620      182,924 
  FB      $0.010    0.08%     19,580,383   56.63%    14,850,691   42.95%    4,729,692    4,729,692

For example, the chart above shows PBCT with a Net Buy Volume of 727,954 shares and a Friction Factor of 29,118 shares. That means that it takes 29,118 more shares of buying than selling to move PBCT higher by one penny. This means the Market Makers are allowing the stock to move up higher as of Friday (lower friction). And with one of the highest Net Buy Volumes, the combination of low friction and high net buy volume is bullish.

People's United Financial Inc (NASDAQ:PBCT) - Peoples United Financial, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Peoples United Bank that provides commercial banking, retail and small business banking, and wealth management services to individual, corporate, and municipal customers. The company operates in three segments: Commercial Banking, Retail Banking and Small Business, and Wealth Management. The Commercial Banking segment provides commercial lending, commercial real estate lending, indirect auto lending, and commercial deposit products and services, as well as equipment financing, cash management, correspondent banking, and municipal banking services. The Retail Banking and Small Business segment offers consumer and small business deposit products; consumer lending products, including residential mortgage and home equity; and small business lending and merchant services. The Wealth Management segment provides trust, corporate trust, brokerage, financial advisory, investment management, life insurance, and other insurance services, as well as involves in private banking activities. In addition, the company offers online banking and investment trading, and telephone banking services. As of December 31, 2009, it operated a network of 300 branches, including 81 full-service supermarket branches, 39 investment and brokerage offices, 16 commercial banking offices, and 10 Peoples Capital and Leasing Corp offices; and approximately 400 automated teller machines in Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, and New York. The company was founded in 1842 and is headquartered in Bridgeport, Connecticut..

ASML Holding NV (NASDAQ:ASML) - ASML Holding N.V., through its subsidiaries, engages in designing, manufacturing, marketing, and servicing semiconductor processing equipment used in the fabrication of integrated circuits. The company offers a portfolio of lithography systems for manufacturing semiconductors, integrated circuits, or chips. Its PAS 5500 product family comprises wafer steppers, and step and scan systems suitable for the i-line, krypton fluoride, and argon fluoride processing of wafers. The company also provides TWINSCAN, a dual-stage design system that allows wafer measurement. In addition, it offers Tachyon SMO, a source-mask optimization product that allows co-optimization of source and mask; and programmable illumination and BaseLiner scanner matching technology, which offers scanner stability optimization and stabilizes manufacturing process windows. The company operates principally in Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Europe, and the United States. It has strategic alliance with Zeiss. The company was formerly known as ASM Lithography Holding N.V. and changed its name to ASML Holding N.V. in 2001. ASML Holding N.V. was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Veldhoven, the Netherlands..

McGraw-Hill Companies Inc (NYSE:MHP) - The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. provides various information services for financial, educational, and business information markets worldwide. It operates in four segments: Standard & Poors (S&P), McGraw-Hill Financial, McGraw-Hill Education (MHE), and McGraw-Hill Information & Media (I&M). The S&P segment offers credit rating services, and provides investors with information and independent benchmarks for their investment and financial decisions and access to the financial markets. It serves investors; corporations, governments, and municipalities; commercial and investment banks; insurance companies; asset managers; and other debt issuers. The McGraw-Hill Financial segment offers digital and traditional research and analytical tools under the Capital IQ brand, and credit ratings-related information products under the S&P Indices brand names; investment research products; and other data subscriptions for investment advisors, wealth managers, and institutional investors. The MHE segment sells printed and digital textbooks, digital and hybrid supplemental materials, integrated digital eLearning platforms, and other resources, as well as provides online and traditional assessment and reporting services. It serves elementary and high schools; colleges and universities; and professional, international, and adult education markets. The I&M segment offers information, insight, and analysis for professionals and corporate executives in automotive, aerospace and defense, construction, and energy sectors, as well as for business and financial professionals, traders, investors, marketers, advertisers, and consumers. This segment also operates nine television stations. The company serves its customers through digital data and information, digital platforms, printed books, magazines and newsletters, Internet Web sites and broadcasting, and conferences and trade shows. The McGraw-Hill Companies was founded in 1888 and is headquartered in New York, New York..

A123 Systems Inc (NASDAQ:AONE) - A123 Systems, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, development, manufacture, and sale of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries and battery systems primarily in the United States. Its batteries and battery systems are based on its Nanophosphate technology for application development in the transportation, electric grid services, and consumer markets. The company also offers its products worldwide. It has a joint venture with SAIC Motor Co. Ltd. to develop, manufacture, and sell complete vehicle traction battery systems for use in hybrid electric vehicles, and electric vehicles in China. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts..

Twoco Petroleums Ltd (NYSE:TWO) - Two Harbors Investment Corp. operates as a real estate investment trust that focuses on investing in, financing, and managing residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) and related investments. Its target assets include agency RMBS collateralized by fixed rate mortgage loans, adjustable rate mortgage loans, hybrid mortgage loans, or derivatives; non-agency RMBS collateralized by prime mortgage loans, Alt-A mortgage loans, and subprime mortgage loans; and non-real estate financial assets, including asset-backed securities and hedging transactions. PRCM Advisers, LLC operates as the manager and advisor of Two Harbors Investment Corp. The company was formerly known as Capitol Acquisition Corp. and changed its name to Two Harbors Investment Corp. in October 2009. Two Harbors Investment Corp. is based in Minnetonka, Minnesota..

Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) - Facebook, Inc. operates as a social networking company worldwide. The company builds tools that enable users to connect, share, discover, and communicate with each other; enables developers to build social applications on Facebook or to integrate their Websites with Facebook; and offers products that enable advertisers and marketers to engage with its users. As of February 2, 2012, it had 845 million monthly users and 443 million daily users. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California..

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