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Market Maker Surveillance Report. PGR, GCI, EGOV, HPQ, BSBR, ALU, Bullishly Biased Price Friction For Tuesday, December 18th 2

^{Published on 2012-12-18 18:01:04 - WOPRAI}
 

December 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 3909 companies with "abnormal" market making, 3872 companies with positive Friction Factors and 2053 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. Progressive Corp (NYSE:PGR), Gannett Co Inc (NYSE:GCI), NIC Inc (NASDAQ:EGOV), Hewlett-Packard Co (NYSE:HPQ), Banco Santander Brasil SA (NYSE:BSBR), Alcatel Lucent SA (NYSE:ALU). 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
  PGR     $0.140    0.66%     1,370,813    16.48%    5,188,632    62.37%    -3,817,819   Abnormal
  GCI     $0.530    2.96%     1,532,111    19.21%    4,952,622    62.08%    -3,420,511   Abnormal
  EGOV    $0.050    0.31%     1,209,633    19.39%    4,942,264    79.22%    -3,732,631   Abnormal
  HPQ     $0.320    2.25%     9,026,305    28.23%    13,724,965   42.92%    -4,698,660   Abnormal
  BSBR    $0.030    0.43%     900,692      12.70%    5,045,780    71.14%    -4,145,088   Abnormal
  ALU     $0.070    5.30%     13,797,834   28.46%    17,947,955   37.02%    -4,150,121   Abnormal

For example, the chart above shows PGR with 3,817,819 greater shares of selling than buying (NetVol) and the stock price was up $0.14000. 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.

Progressive Corp (NYSE:PGR) - The Progressive Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides personal and commercial automobile insurance, and other specialty property-casualty insurance products and related services primarily in the United States. The companys property-casualty insurance products protect its customers against losses due to collision and physical damage to their motor vehicles, uninsured and underinsured bodily injury, and liability to others for personal injury or property damage arising out of the use of those vehicles. It also offers personal lines products that comprise insurance for personal autos and special lines products, including motorcycles, ATVs, RVs, mobile homes, watercraft, and snowmobiles. In addition, the company provides commercial auto insurance that includes primary liability and physical damage insurance for autos, vans, and pick-up trucks used by artisans, such as contractors, landscapers, plumbers, and various small businesses. Further, its specialty truck commercial auto market comprises dump trucks, logging trucks, tow trucks, local cartage, and other short-haul commercial vehicles. The company also offers cargo and general liability insurance products; and professional liability insurance for community banks, principally directors and officers liability insurance. In addition, it sells personal auto insurance in Australia. The Progressive Corporation provides policy issuance and claims adjusting services for the commercial auto insurance procedures/plans. It sells its products and services through independent agents and brokers, as well as directly online or by phone. The company was founded in 1937 and is headquartered in Mayfield Village, Ohio..

Gannett Co Inc (NYSE:GCI) - Gannett Co., Inc. operates as a media and marketing solutions company in the United States and internationally. It operates in three segments: Publishing, Digital, and Broadcasting. The Publishing segment publishes 83 U.S. daily newspapers with affiliated online sites, including USA TODAY, a general-interest daily newspaper; USATODAY.com; USA WEEKEND, a magazine supplement for newspapers; Clipper magazine, a direct mail advertising magazine; bi-weekly Nursing Spectrum and NurseWeek periodicals; and military and defense newspapers. The Publishing segment also includes 17 paid-for daily newspapers; approximately 200 weekly newspapers, magazines, and trade publications; and approximately 650 non-daily publications, as well as involves in commercial printing, newswire, marketing, and data services operations. The Digital segment owns and operates CareerBuilder, an employment Web site, which offers job postings and related products to employers; provides multichannel shopping and advertising services; digital marketing services and technology; hosted search and advertising services; scheduling solution for high school athletic departments; and social media technology and services. The Broadcasting segment operates 23 television stations and affiliated Web sites, which produce local programming, such as news, sports, and entertainment programming. This segment also includes Captivate Network, a news and entertainment network that delivers programming and full-motion video advertising on video screens located in elevators of office towers and select hotel lobbies. The company has strategic business relationships with online affiliates, including Classified Ventures; Topix; and Metromix LLC. Gannett Co., Inc. was founded in 1906 and is headquartered in McLean, Virginia..

NIC Inc (NASDAQ:EGOV) - NIC Inc. provides eGovernment services that enable governments use the Internet to provide various services to businesses and citizens in the United States. It operates in two segments, Portal Outsourcing, and Software and Services. The Portal Outsourcing segment enters into long-term contracts with governments to design, build, and operate Web-based portals on their behalf. These portals consist of Web sites and applications that enable businesses and citizens to access government information online and complete transactions, including applying for a permit, retrieving drivers license records, and filing a government-mandated form or report. The Software and Services segment provides software applications and services for electronic filings and document management solutions for the California Secretary of State, as well as designs and develops online campaign expenditure and ethics compliance systems for federal and state government agencies. The company also provides consulting, application development, and portal management services to government. NIC Inc. was founded in 1991 and is based in Olathe, Kansas..

Hewlett-Packard Co (NYSE:HPQ) - Hewlett-Packard Company offers various products, technologies, software, solutions, and services to individual consumers and small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), as well as to the government, health, and education sectors worldwide. The companys Services segment provides consulting, outsourcing, and technology services to infrastructure, applications, and business process domains. Its Enterprise Storage and Servers segment offers storage and server products. This segment provides industry standard servers, business critical systems, and storage works offerings. The companys HP Software segment provides enterprise IT management solutions, information management and business intelligence solutions, and communications and media solutions. Its Personal Systems Group segment offers commercial personal computers (PCs), consumer PCs, workstations, handheld computing devices, calculators and other related accessories, and software and services for the commercial and consumer markets. The companys Imaging and Printing Group segment provides consumer and commercial printer hardware, printing supplies, printing media, and scanning devices, such as inkjet and Web solutions, laserjet and enterprise solutions, managed enterprise solutions, graphics solutions, and printer supplies. Its HP Financial Services segment offers leasing, financing, utility programs, and asset recovery services; and financial asset management services for enterprise customers, as well as specialized financial services to SMBs, and educational and governmental entities. The company also provides network infrastructure products under the ProCurve, 3Com, and TippingPoint brand names; video collaboration products under the Halo brand name; and Palm smartphones, as well as licenses its specific technology to third parties. Hewlett-Packard Company was founded in 1939 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California..

Banco Santander Brasil SA (NYSE:BSBR) - As of August, 2006, Banco Santander Brasil S.A. was acquired by Banco Santander (Brasil) S.A. Banco Santander Brasil S.A. offers retail banking services. It provides savings accounts, consumer and equity credit loans, credit cards, residential mortgages, and deposit services. The company was formerly known as Banco Geral do Comrcio S.A. Banco Santander Brasil S.A. is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil..

Alcatel Lucent SA (NYSE:ALU) - Alcatel-Lucent offers products, solutions, and transformation services that enable service providers, enterprises, governments, and strategic industries to deliver voice, data, and video communication services to end-users worldwide. It engages in the development and sale of software and related services to manage customer interactions. The company offers a software suite that connects customers with the resources to fulfill customer requests and meet customer care goals. It also provides software and related services, which support service provider business priorities in the areas of application innovation, enhanced communications, digital media, real-time rating and charging, and subscriber data management, as well as offers tools for providers to enable consumers set up and manage their mobile devices and services at-home. In addition, the company offers voice telephony and data networking solutions; and end-to-end communications networks and individual network elements, as well as designs and sells a suite of radio frequency products, such as cable, antenna, tower systems, and their related electronic components. Further, the company designs, integrates, manages, and maintains networks. Alcatel-Lucent is headquartered in Paris, France..

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