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Market Maker Surveillance Report. WFC, TSM, ODP, AMD, HWD, KCG, Bullishly Biased Price Friction For Wednesday, November 28th 2

^{Published on 2012-11-28 18:01:54 - WOPRAI}
 

November 28, 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 4135 companies with "abnormal" market making, 3009 companies with positive Friction Factors and 2277 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. WELLS FARGO & COMPANY (NYSE:WFC), Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (NYSE:TSM), Office Depot Inc (NYSE:ODP), Advanced Micro Devices Inc (NYSE:AMD), HARRY WINSTON DIAMOND CORP (NYSE:HWD), Knight Capital Group Inc (NYSE:KCG). 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
  WFC     $0.160    0.49%     4,552,786    25.68%    5,910,090    33.33%    -1,357,304   Abnormal
  TSM     $0.070    0.41%     2,798,776    28.13%    4,257,055    42.79%    -1,458,279   Abnormal
  ODP     $0.020    0.62%     1,556,402    24.99%    2,660,265    42.71%    -1,103,863   Abnormal
  AMD     $0.090    4.79%     8,742,830    32.53%    10,010,565   37.24%    -1,267,735   Abnormal
  HWD     $0.710    5.22%     196,363      11.60%    1,338,745    79.09%    -1,142,382   Abnormal
  KCG     $0.430    14.48%    14,671,028   31.13%    18,486,076   39.22%    -3,815,048   Abnormal

For example, the chart above shows WFC with 1,357,304 greater shares of selling than buying (NetVol) and the stock price was up $0.16000. 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.

WELLS FARGO & COMPANY (NYSE:WFC) - Wells Fargo & Company, through its subsidiaries, provides retail, commercial, and corporate banking services primarily in the United States. The company operates in three segments: Community Banking; Wholesale Banking; and Wealth, Brokerage, and Retirement. The Community Banking segment offers deposits, including checking, market rate, and individual retirement accounts; savings and time deposits; and debit cards. Its loan products comprise lines of credit, auto floor plans, equity lines and loans, equipment and transportation loans, education loans, residential mortgage loans, health savings accounts, and credit cards. This segment also provides equipment leases, real estate financing, small business administration financing, venture capital financing, cash management, payroll services, retirement plans, loans secured by autos, and merchant payment processing services; purchases sales finance contracts from retail merchants; and a family of funds, and investment management services. The Wholesale Banking segment offers commercial and corporate banking products and services, including commercial loans and lines of credit, letters of credit, asset-based lending, equipment leasing, international trade facilities, trade financing, collection services, foreign exchange services, treasury and investment management, institutional fixed-income sales, commodity and equity risk management, insurance, corporate trust fiduciary and agency services, and investment banking services. This segment also provides banking products for commercial real estate market, and real estate and mortgage brokerage services. The Wealth, Brokerage, and Retirement segment offers financial advisory, brokerage, and institutional retirement and trust services. As of December 31, 2010, the company served its customers through approximately 9,000 banking stores in 39 States and the District of Columbia. Wells Fargo & Company was founded in 1929 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California..

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (NYSE:TSM) - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited engages in the computer-aided designing, manufacturing, packaging, testing, and selling integrated circuits and other semiconductor devices; and manufacturing masks. It offers a range of wafer fabrication processes, including processes to manufacture complementary metal oxide silicon (CMOS) logic, mixed-signal, radio frequency, embedded memory, BiCMOS mixed-signal, and other semiconductors. The companys semiconductor products include logic semiconductors that process digital data to control the operation of electronic systems, as well as standard logic devices that include microprocessors, microcontrollers, digital signal processors, graphic chips, and chip sets; and mixed-signal/RF semiconductors, which combine analog and digital devices on a single semiconductor to process analog and digital data for use in hard disk drives, wireless communications equipment, and network communications equipment. It also offers memory semiconductors that are used in electronic systems to store data and program instructions; CMOS image sensor semiconductors, which are primarily used in camera phones; and high voltage semiconductors, including high voltage CMOS, bipolar-CMOS-DMOS, and ultra-high voltage technology products for use in various panel-size display driver and power IC applications. In addition, the company offers design and technology platforms, and multi-project wafer processing services. It serves fabless semiconductor and systems companies, and integrated device manufacturers primarily in North America, Asia, and Europe. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan..

Office Depot Inc (NYSE:ODP) - Office Depot, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, supplies office products and services. Its North American Retail division sells an assortment of merchandise, such as general office supplies, computer supplies, business machines and related supplies, and office furniture under various labels, including Office Depot, Viking Office Products, Foray, Ativa, Break Escapes, Niceday, and Worklife through its chain of office supply stores. It also provides printing, reproduction, mailing, shipping, and other services, as well as personal computer support and network installation service. As of December 25, 2010, this division operated 1,147 office supply stores in the United States and Canada. The companys North American Business Solutions division sells nationally branded and private brand office supplies, technology products, furniture, and services to small- to medium-sized customers through a dedicated sales force, catalogs, and Internet. Its International division sells office products and services through direct mail catalogs, contract sales forces, Internet sites, and retail stores using a mix of company-owned operations, joint ventures, licensing and franchise agreements, alliances, and other arrangements. As of December 25, 2010, it sold its office products to customers in 53 countries in North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. This division operated, through wholly-owned or majority-owned entities, 97 retail stores in France, Hungary, South Korea, and Sweden; and participates under licensing and merchandise arrangements in South Korea, Thailand, India, Israel, Japan, and the Middle East. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida..

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..

HARRY WINSTON DIAMOND CORP (NYSE:HWD) - Harry Winston Diamond Corporation, a diamond company, engages in mining and retailing diamonds in Canada and internationally. The company, through its subsidiaries, holds a 40% ownership interest in the Diavik Diamond Mine and supplies rough diamonds; and engages in the retail of fine jewelry and watches under the Harry Winston brand. It operates eight salons in New York, Beverly Hills, Bal Harbour, Honolulu, Las Vegas, Dallas, Chicago, and Costa Mesa, the United States; five salons in Ginza, Roppongi Hills, Osaka, Omotesando, and Nagoya, Japan; two salons in Paris and London, Europe; and four salons in Beijing, Taipei, Hong Kong, and Singapore. The company was formerly known as Aber Diamond Corporation and changed its name to Harry Winston Diamond Corporation in 2007. Harry Winston Diamond Corporation was founded in 1980 and is based in Toronto, Canada..

Knight Capital Group Inc (NYSE:KCG) - Knight Capital Group, Inc., a financial services company, provides market access and trade execution services across multiple asset classes to buy-and sell-side firms, as well as offers capital markets services to corporate issuers and private companies primarily in the United States. The companys Equities segment provides market access and trade execution services in global equities, and futures and options. This segments institutional equity products and services include global equity, option and futures trade execution solutions, block trading, program trading, special situations/risk arbitrage, soft dollar and commission recapture programs, corporate access services, direct market access, EdgeTrade algorithms, and internal crossing. Knight Capital Groups Fixed Income, Currencies, and Commodities segment offers fixed income research, voice sales and trading, and capital markets services. It provides trading across a range of fixed income securities, including corporate bonds, distressed debt, asset-and mortgage-backed securities, federal agency securities, convertible bonds, hybrid securities, syndicated bank loans, and emerging markets. This segment also operates a fixed income electronic communication network (ECN) that serves as an electronic inter-dealer system and allows clients to access live and executable offerings; and foreign exchange ECN, which provides clients with access to live executable prices for 51 currency pairs and spot gold and silver streamed by market maker banks and other clients. The company was formerly known as Knight Trading Group, Inc. and changed its name to Knight Capital Group, Inc. in May 2005. Knight Capital Group, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey..

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