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Market Maker Surveillance Report. SNE, JNJ, SO, RDN, CNP, XEL, Bearishly Biased Price Friction For Friday, November 23rd 2012

^{Published on 2012-11-23 18:01:42 - WOPRAI}
 

November 23, 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 3494 companies with "abnormal" market making, 3901 companies with positive Friction Factors and 1193 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. Sony Corp (NYSE:SNE), Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ), SOUTHERN COMPANY (THE) (NYSE:SO), Radian Group Inc (NYSE:RDN), Cannon Point Resouces Ltd (NYSE:CNP), Xcel Energy Inc (NYSE:XEL). 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
  SNE     $-0.060   -0.60%    519,045      33.58%    337,717      21.85%    181,328      Abnormal
  JNJ     $-0.120   -0.17%    1,569,239    29.16%    1,287,464    23.92%    281,775      Abnormal
  SO      $-0.230   -0.54%    928,709      32.69%    662,340      23.31%    266,369      Abnormal
  RDN     $-0.020   -0.47%    655,943      45.38%    486,510      33.66%    169,433      Abnormal
  CNP     $-0.090   -0.45%    473,825      38.56%    259,206      21.10%    214,619      Abnormal
  XEL     $-0.110   -0.42%    406,776      35.41%    226,113      19.69%    180,663      Abnormal

For example, the chart above shows SNE with 181,328 greater shares of buying than selling (NetVol) and the stock price was down $-0.06000. 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.

Sony Corp (NYSE:SNE) - Sony Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, and sells electronic equipment, instruments, and devices for consumer, professional, and industrial markets worldwide. The company offers consumer products and devices, including televisions, video cameras, compact digital cameras and digital single-lens reflex cameras, Blu-ray Disc players/recorders, DVD-video players/recorders, home theaters and audio systems, and portable audio and car audio products. It also provides charged coupled devices, complementary metal-oxide semiconductor image sensors, system LSIs, small- and medium-sized TFT LCD panels, and other semiconductors; and components, such as batteries, optical disk drives, chemical products, audio/video/data recording media, storage media, and optical pickups. In addition, the company develops, produces, markets, and distributes games, such as PlayStation3, PlayStation Portable, and PlayStation 2 hardware and related software; and PCs and flash memory digital audio players, as well as manufactures broadcast- and professional-use products, Blu-ray Discs, DVDs, and CD discs. Further, it produces and distributes motion pictures and television programs, and home entertainment; creates and distributes digital content; operates a channel network and studio facilities; and develops entertainment products, services, and technologies. Additionally, the company engages in the music publishing business, as well as provision of various financial services, including insurance, savings products, loans, leasing, and credit financing services; and a network service business and an advertising agency business. It also involves in research, development, design, production, marketing, sales, distribution, and servicing mobile phones, accessories, services, and applications. The company was formerly known as Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha and changed its name to Sony Corporation in January 1958. Sony Corporation was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan..

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) - Johnson & Johnson engages in the research and development, manufacture, and sale of various products in the health care field worldwide. The company operates in three segments: Consumer, Pharmaceutical, and Medical Devices and Diagnostics. The Consumer segment provides products used in baby care, skin care, oral care, wound care, and womens health care fields, as well as nutritional, over-the-counter pharmaceutical products, and wellness and prevention platforms under the names JOHNSONS, AVEENO, CLEAN & CLEAR, JOHNSONS Adult, NEUTROGENA, RoC, LUBRIDERM, Dabao, Vendome, LISTERINE, REACH, BAND-AID, PURELL, CAREFREE, STAYFREE, SPLENDA, TYLENOL, SUDAFED, ZYRTEC, MOTRIN IB, and PEPCID AC. The Pharmaceutical segment offers products in various therapeutic areas, such as anti-infective, antipsychotic, cardiovascular, contraceptive, dermatology, gastrointestinal, immunology, neurology, oncology, urology, and virology. Its products include REMICADE, a biologic approved for the treatment of immune mediated inflammatory diseases; PROCRIT, a biotechnology-derived product that stimulates red blood cell production; LEVAQUIN, which is used in the anti-infective field; RISPERDAL CONSTA, a injectable for the treatment of schizophrenia; CONCERTA, a product for the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; ACIPHEX/PARIET, a proton pump inhibitor; DURAGESIC/Fentanyl Transdermal, a treatment for chronic pain; VELCADE for the treatment of multiple myeloma; PREZISTA for treating HIV/AIDS patients; and INVEGA, a atypical antipsychotic. The Medical Devices and Diagnostics segment primarily offers circulatory disease management products; orthopaedic joint reconstruction, spinal care, and sports medicine products; surgical care, aesthetics, and womens health products; blood glucose monitoring and insulin delivery products; professional diagnostic products; and disposable contact lenses. The company was founded in 1886 and is based in New Brunswick, New Jersey..

SOUTHERN COMPANY (THE) (NYSE:SO) - Southern Company, through its subsidiaries, operates as a utility company that provides electric service in the southeastern United States. The company generates, transmits, and distributes electricity through coal, nuclear, oil and gas, and hydro resources. It offers electric service primarily in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi; and serves approximately 4.4 million retail customers with approximately 42,000 megawatts of generating capacity. Southern Company also constructs, acquires, owns, and manages generation assets and sells electricity in the wholesale market. Its transmission assets include 27,000 miles of transmission lines and 3,400 substations. The company also provides digital wireless communications, such as push to talk, cellular service, text messaging, wireless Internet access, and wireless data to approximately 300,000 subscribers in the southeast; and wholesale fiber optic solutions to telecommunication providers under the name Southern Telecom. The company was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia..

Radian Group Inc (NYSE:RDN) - Radian Group Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides credit-related insurance coverage and financial services in the United States and internationally. The company operates in three segments: Mortgage Insurance, Financial Guaranty, and Financial Services. The Mortgage Insurance segment offers credit protection for mortgage lenders and other financial services companies on residential mortgage assets. This segment serves mortgage originators, such as mortgage bankers, mortgage brokers, commercial banks, savings institutions, and credit unions. The Financial Guaranty segment insures and reinsures municipal bonds, structured finance transactions, and other credit-based risks, as well as provides credit protection on various asset classes through financial guarantees and credit default swaps. This segment serves financial institutions that structure, underwrite, or trade securities issued in structured finance obligations. The Financial Services segment specializes in credit card and bankruptcy-plan consumer assets, as well as originates subprime credit card receivables and has various other similar ventures related to consumer assets. The company was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania..

Cannon Point Resouces Ltd (NYSE:CNP) - CenterPoint Energy, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a public utility company in the United States. The companys Electric Transmission and Distribution segment provides transmission and distribution services to retail electric providers, municipalities, electric cooperatives, and other distribution companies. As of December 31, 2009, it owned 27,726 pole miles of overhead distribution lines and 3,729 circuit miles of overhead transmission lines; 20,080 circuit miles of underground distribution lines and 26 circuit miles of underground transmission lines; and 230 substation sites with a capacity of 51,557 megavolt amperes. Its Natural Gas Distribution segment engages in regulated intrastate natural gas sales to, and natural gas transportation for approximately 3.2 million residential, commercial, and industrial customers. This segment also provides various unregulated services consisting of heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment and appliance repair; and sells HVAC, and hearth and water heating equipment in Minnesota. It owned approximately 70,700 linear miles of natural gas distribution mains. The companys Competitive Natural Gas Sales and Services segment offers physical natural gas supplies primarily to commercial and industrial customers, and electric and gas utilities; physical delivery services and financial products; natural gas management services; and transportation services. Its Interstate Pipelines segment primarily provides transportation services to shippers and end-users. It owned and operated approximately 8,000 miles of natural gas transmission lines; and 6 natural gas storage fields. The companys Field Services segment operates gas gathering, treating, and processing facilities, as well as provides operating and technical services, and remote data monitoring and communication services. CenterPoint Energy, Inc. was founded in 1882 and is based in Houston, Texas..

Xcel Energy Inc (NYSE:XEL) - Xcel Energy Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the generation, purchase, transmission, distribution, and sale of electricity to residential, commercial, industrial, and public authorities in the United States. The company generates electricity using coal, nuclear, hydro, wind, and solar energy. It also purchases, transports, distributes, and sells natural gas to retail customers, as well as transports customer-owned natural gas. Xcel Energy primarily serves customers in the areas of Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, and Wisconsin. As of December 31, 2009, it provided electricity services to approximately 3,392,586 customers and natural gas services to approximately 1,880,557 customers. Xcel Energy, through its joint venture interests in WYCO Development L.L.C, develops and leases natural gas pipeline, storage, and compression facilities. The company was founded in 1909 and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota..

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