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Market Maker Surveillance Report. SRC, USB, MDP, NRGY, ABMD, PGUZ, Bullishly Biased Price Friction For Friday, December 21st 2

^{Published on 2012-12-21 18:01:11 - WOPRAI}
 

December 21, 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 4158 companies with "abnormal" market making, 2002 companies with positive Friction Factors and 3683 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. Sierra Pacific Resources Pies (NYSE:SRC), U.S. Bancorp (NYSE:USB), Meredith Corp (NYSE:MDP), Inergy LP (NYSE:NRGY), Abiomed Inc (NASDAQ:ABMD), PEGASUS PHARMACEUTICALS INC (OTC:PGUZ). 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
  SRC     $0.270    1.60%     509,273      10.91%    3,323,159    71.22%    -2,813,886   Abnormal
  USB     $0.040    0.12%     4,195,020    20.36%    8,016,503    38.91%    -3,821,483   Abnormal
  MDP     $0.010    0.03%     547,587      7.62%     5,497,485    76.47%    -4,949,898   Abnormal
  NRGY    $0.190    1.10%     589,810      13.22%    3,234,764    72.49%    -2,644,954   Abnormal
  ABMD    $0.040    0.27%     1,171,099    24.33%    3,562,210    74.01%    -2,391,111   Abnormal
  PGUZ    $0.020    200.00%   778,650      17.51%    3,668,650    82.49%    -2,890,000   Abnormal

For example, the chart above shows SRC with 2,813,886 greater shares of selling than buying (NetVol) and the stock price was up $0.27000. 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.

Sierra Pacific Resources Pies (NYSE:SRC) - Sierra Pacific Resources Pies.

U.S. Bancorp (NYSE:USB) - U.S. Bancorp, a financial services holding company, provides various banking and financial services in the United States. The company offers depository services, such as checking accounts, savings accounts, and time certificate contracts. Its loan portfolio includes residential mortgages and credit card loans; and retail loans, such as revolving consumer lines, auto loans and leases, second mortgages, student loans, and home equity loans and lines. In addition, the company provides wholesale and asset-backed lending, agricultural finance, equipment finance and small-ticket leasing, depository, treasury management, capital markets, foreign exchange, and international trade services to middle market, large corporate, commercial real estate, financial institution, and public sector customers; and telephone and mobile banking, online services, direct mail, and automatic teller machine(ATM) processing services. Further, it offers private banking, financial advisory, investment management, retail brokerage, insurance, trust, mutual fund servicing, and custody services; and payment services comprising consumer and business credit cards, stored-value cards, debit cards, corporate and purchasing card services, consumer lines of credit, and merchant processing services. As of June 30, 2012, the company operated 3,080 banking offices in 25 states and 5,085 ATMs. It serves individuals, businesses, institutional organizations, governmental entities, estates, foundations, and charitable organizations. U.S. Bancorp was founded in 1863 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota..

Meredith Corp (NYSE:MDP) - Meredith Corporation, a media and marketing company, engages in magazine and book publishing, television broadcasting, integrated marketing, and interactive media business in the United States. It operates in two segments, Publishing and Broadcasting. The Publishing segment publishes magazines for women focusing on the home and family market. It publishes 25 subscription magazines, including Better Homes and Gardens, Family Circle, Ladies' Home Journal, Parents, American Baby, Fitness, and More, as well as approximately 135 special interest publications primarily under the Better Homes and Gardens brands. This segment also includes book publishing, which has approximately 200 books in print; integrated marketing, which offers customer relationship marketing services, including direct, database, custom publishing, digital, and word-of-mouth marketing to corporate customers; and an Internet presence that consists of approximately 30 Web sites. The Broadcasting segment includes 12 network-affiliated television stations comprising 6 CBS affiliates, 3 FOX affiliates, 2 MyNetworkTV affiliates, and 1 NBC affiliate, as well as 1 AM radio station. This segment also comprises 20 Web sites, including 8 mobile Web sites, 8 iPhone applications, and video related operations. The company was founded in 1902 and is headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa..

Inergy LP (NYSE:NRGY) - Inergy, L.P. engages in retail marketing, sale, and distribution of propane to residential, commercial, industrial, and agricultural customers. The company serves approximately 800,000 retail customers from approximately 300 customer service centers in the United States. It also operates a natural gas storage business; a supply logistics, transportation, and wholesale marketing business, which serves independent dealers and multi-state marketers in the United States and Canada; and a solution-mining and salt production company. The company was formerly known as Inergy Holdings, L.P. and changed its name to Inergy, L.P. on November 06, 2010. Inergy, L.P. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri..

Abiomed Inc (NASDAQ:ABMD) - ABIOMED, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the research, development, and sale of medical devices that provide circulatory support to acute heart failure patients across the continuum of care in heart recovery. Its products include Impella 2.5 catheter, a percutaneous micro heart pump with integrated motor and sensors for use in interventional cardiology; and Impella 5.0 catheter and Impella LD, which are percutaneous micro heart pumps with integrated motors and sensors for use primarily in the heart surgery suite. The company also manufactures and sells the AB5000 circulatory support system and the BVS 5000 biventricular support system for temporary support of acute heart failure patients in profound shock, including patients suffering from cardiogenic shock after a heart attack, post-cardiotomy cardiogenic shock, or myocarditis. In addition, it provides AbioCor implantable replacement heart, a self-contained artificial heart for end-stage biventricular heart failure patients. Further, the company develops Intra-Aortic Balloon (IAB), an inflatable balloon inserted via a catheter into the patients circulation; iPulse intra-aortic Balloon Catheter, an intra-aortic counterpulsation device that passively unloads the left ventricle, reduces the workload of the heart and enhances cardiac output; and portable circulatory support driver for AB5000 for in-hospital and out-of-hospital patients. It sells its products through direct sales and clinical support personnel in the United States, Canada, Germany, France, and internationally. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Danvers, Massachusetts..

PEGASUS PHARMACEUTICALS INC (OTC:PGUZ) - The Ann Arbor, Michigan based Pegasus Pharmaceuticals Company specializes in acquiring and developing early-stage pharmaceutical candidates. Pegasus looks to add value to these companies by applying innovative development strategies..

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