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Market Maker Surveillance Report. SWC, FL, MU, NI, VMED, CIE, Bearishly Biased Price Friction For Thursday, December 13th 2012

^{Published on 2012-12-13 18:01:21 - WOPRAI}
 

December 13, 2012 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for Thursday. 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 Thursday there were 3926 companies with "abnormal" market making, 2066 companies with positive Friction Factors and 3800 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. STILLWATER MINING COMPANY (NYSE:SWC), Foot Locker Inc (NYSE:FL), Micron Technology Inc (NASDAQ:MU), NiSource Inc (NYSE:NI), Virgin Media Inc (NASDAQ:VMED), COBALT INTERNATIONAL ENERGY, INCORPORATION (NYSE:CIE). 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
  SWC     $-0.210   -1.72%    11,743,886   76.08%    1,742,984    11.29%    10,000,902   Abnormal
  FL      $-0.810   -2.43%    2,007,176    50.59%    750,868      18.92%    1,256,308    Abnormal
  MU      $-0.050   -0.72%    12,856,005   53.71%    10,959,885   45.78%    1,896,120    Abnormal
  NI      $-0.170   -0.68%    2,413,804    58.70%    786,516      19.13%    1,627,288    Abnormal
  VMED    $-0.280   -0.78%    3,149,139    62.20%    2,030,822    40.11%    1,118,317    Abnormal
  CIE     $-0.410   -1.61%    2,264,288    50.55%    981,786      21.92%    1,282,502    Abnormal

For example, the chart above shows SWC with 10,000,902 greater shares of buying than selling (NetVol) and the stock price was down $-0.21000. 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.

STILLWATER MINING COMPANY (NYSE:SWC) - Stillwater Mining Company engages in the development, extraction, processing, refining, and marketing of palladium, platinum, and associated metals in south central Montana, the United States. The companys mining operations consist of the Stillwater Mine located on the J-M Reef in Nye, Montana; the East Boulder Mine located at the western end of the J-M Reef in Sweet Grass County, Montana; and a smelter and base metal refinery located in Columbus, Montana. Stillwater Mining Company also processes mining concentrates and recycles spent catalyst material to recover platinum group metals (PGMs) at the smelter and base metal refinery. As of December 31, 2009, it had proven and probable ore reserves of approximately 41.0 million tons with an average grade of 0.50 ounce of PGMs per ton containing approximately 20.6 million ounces of palladium and platinum. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Columbus, Montana..

Foot Locker Inc (NYSE:FL) - Foot Locker, Inc. operates as a retailer of athletic footwear and apparel. The company operates in two segments, Athletic Stores and Direct-to-Customers. The Athletic Stores segment offers athletic footwear and apparel under various formats, including Foot Locker, Lady Foot Locker, Kids Foot Locker, Champs Sports, Footaction, and CCS. This segment offers footwear, apparel, equipment, and accessories, as well as casual wear for various activities, including basketball, running, training, walking, toning, and fitness for young males, women, and children. The Direct-to-Customers segment, through its affiliates, sells athletic footwear, apparel, equipment, team licensed, and private-label merchandise through catalogs and Internet Websites. As of March 9, 2010, Foot Locker, Inc. operated 3,500 stores in North America, Europe, and Australia. It also franchises its Foot Locker stores in the Middle East and the Republic of Korea. As of January 30, 2010, the company had a total of 22 franchised stores. Foot Locker, Inc. was founded in 1879 and is based in New York, New York..

Micron Technology Inc (NASDAQ:MU) - Micron Technology, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and marketing of semiconductor devices worldwide. Its products include dynamic random access memory (DRAM) products that provide data storage and retrieval, which include DDR2 and DDR3; and other specialty DRAM memory products, including DDR, SDRAM, DDR and DDR2 mobile low power DRAM, pseudo-static RAM, and reduced latency DRAM. The company also offers NAND flash memory products, which are electrically re-writeable and non-volatile semiconductor devices that retain content when power is turned off. In addition, it provides NOR flash memory products that are electrically re-writeable and non-volatile semiconductor memory devices; phase change memory products; and image sensor products. Micron Technologys products are used in a range of electronic applications, including personal computers, workstations, network servers, mobile phones, flash memory cards, USB storage devices, digital still cameras, MP3/4 players, and in automotive applications. It sells its products to original equipment manufacturers and retailers through internal sales force, independent sales representatives, and distributors, as well as through a Web-based customer direct sales channel. The company was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Boise, Idaho..

NiSource Inc (NYSE:NI) - NiSource Inc., an energy holding company, through its subsidiaries, provides natural gas, electricity, and other products and services. It operates in four segments: Gas Distribution Operations, Gas Transmission and Storage Operations, Electric Operations, and Other Operations. The Gas Distribution Operations segment provides natural gas to residential, commercial, and industrial customers. As of December 31, 2009, it served approximately 3.3 million customers in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, Maryland, Indiana, and Massachusetts, as well as owned and operated a total of 57,785 miles of pipelines. The Gas Transmission and Storage Operations segment owned and operated 15 thousand miles of interstate pipelines, and operated underground natural gas storage systems capable of storing approximately 639 billion cubic feet of natural gas. The Electric Operations segment generates, transmits, and distributes electricity to approximately 457 thousand customers in the northern part of Indiana, and engages in wholesale and transmission transactions. As of December 31, 2009, it operated 3 coal-fired electric generating stations with a net capability of 2,574 megawatt (mw), 4 gas-fired generating units with a net capability of 203 mw, and 2 hydroelectric generating plants with a net capability of 10 mw, as well as a combined cycle gas turbine plant with a capacity of 535 mw. The Other Operations segment primarily engages in gas and power marketing, and ventures focused on distributed power generation technologies, including cogeneration facilities, fuel cells, and storage systems. The company was formerly known as NIPSCO Industries, Inc. and changed its name to NiSource Inc. in April 1999. NiSource Inc. was founded in 1912 and is headquartered in Merrillville, Indiana..

Virgin Media Inc (NASDAQ:VMED) - Virgin Media Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides of entertainment and communications services in the United Kingdom. The company operates through three segments: Consumer, Business, and Content. The Consumer segment offers cable broadband Internet, television, and fixed line telephone services under the Virgin Media brand to residential customers; mobile telephony services through Virgin Mobile, a mobile virtual network operator; and broadband and telephone services to residential customers through third-party telecommunications networks. The Business segment provides a portfolio of voice, data, and Internet solutions to commercial customers, including analog telephony and managed data networks and applications, as well as supplies communications services to emergency services providers. The Content segment operates various television channels, including Virgin1, Living, Bravo, Challenge, and Challenge Jackpot; and owns a 50% interest in the companies that comprise the UKTV Group, a series of joint ventures with BBC Worldwide. The company was formerly known as NTL Incorporated and changed its name to Virgin Media Inc. in February 2007. The company was founded in 1993 and is based in New York, New York..

COBALT INTERNATIONAL ENERGY, INCORPORATION (NYSE:CIE) - Cobalt International Energy, Inc. operates as an independent oil-focused exploration and production company. The company focuses on the deepwater U.S. Gulf of Mexico, and offshore Angola and Gabon in West Africa. It has strategic relationships with TOTAL E&P USA, INC. and Sociedade Nacional de Combustveis de AngolaEmpresa Pblica. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Houston, Texas..

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