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Market Maker Surveillance Report. GGB, CX, PPG, UMC, JNJ, GLW, Bearishly Biased Price Friction For Monday, January 28th 2013

^{Published on 2013-01-28 18:45:49 - WOPRAI}
 

January 28, 2013 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for Monday. 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 Monday there were 3940 companies with "abnormal" market making, 2696 companies with positive Friction Factors and 3035 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. Gerdau SA (NYSE:GGB), Cemex SAB de CV (NYSE:CX), PPG Industries Inc (NYSE:PPG), United Microelectronics Corp (NYSE:UMC), Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ), Corning Inc (NYSE:GLW). 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
  GGB     $-0.040   -0.01%    4,678,086    40.51%    2,495,247    21.61%    2,182,839    Abnormal
  CX      $-0.030   -0.00%    3,386,447    30.99%    2,489,069    22.77%    897,378      Abnormal
  PPG     $-4.210   -0.03%    2,669,822    37.60%    1,484,065    20.90%    1,185,757    Abnormal
  UMC     $-0.010   -0.01%    1,808,651    55.68%    989,119      30.45%    819,532      Abnormal
  JNJ     $-0.270   -0.00%    3,607,429    39.56%    2,594,538    28.46%    1,012,891    Abnormal
  GLW     $-0.080   -0.01%    10,385,210   32.37%    7,897,686    24.61%    2,487,524    Abnormal

For example, the chart above shows GGB with 2,182,839 greater shares of buying than selling (NetVol) and the stock price was down $-0.04000. 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.

Gerdau SA (NYSE:GGB) - Gerdau S.A. engages in the production and commercialization of steel products worldwide. The company offers crude steel products, which include billets that are used to manufacture wire rods, rebars, and merchant bars; blooms for use in the manufacture of springs, forged parts, heavy structural shapes, and seamless tubes; and slabs, which are used in the steel industry for the rolling of various flat rolled products, as well as used to produce hot and cold rolled coils, heavy slabs, and profiles. Its long rolled products include rebars, merchant bars, and profiles, which are primarily used in the construction and manufacturing industries; and drawn products comprise barbed and barbless fence wires, galvanized wires, fences, concrete reinforcing wire mesh, nails, and clamps for manufacturing, construction, and agricultural sectors. The company also offers special and stainless steel products used in tools and machinery, chains, fasteners, railroad spikes, and special coil steel, as well as special sections, such as grader blades, smelter bars, light rails, super light I-beams, and elevator guide rails. In addition, it provides flat products, such as hot and cold steel coils, heavy plates, and profiles; and resells flat steel products manufactured by other Brazilian steel producers. The company was founded in 1901 and is based in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Gerdau S.A. is a subsidiary of Metal rgica Gerdau S.A..

Cemex SAB de CV (NYSE:CX) - CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V., through its subsidiaries, engages in the production, marketing, distribution, and sale of cement, ready-mix concrete, aggregates, and other construction materials worldwide. It also offers asphalt, concrete blocks, roof tiles, concrete pipes, and architectural products, as well as other precast products, such as rail products, concrete floors, box culverts, bridges, drainage basins, barriers, and parking curbs. In addition, the company provides admixtures and gypsum materials; and cementitious materials, including fly ash and blast furnace slag. It serves home and commercial construction industries; improvement and renovation sector for infrastructure, agricultural, industrial, and other specialty applications. CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V. was founded in 1906 and is based in Garza Garc a, Mexico..

PPG Industries Inc (NYSE:PPG) - PPG Industries, Inc. manufactures and supplies protective and decorative coatings. The company offers coating products for automotive and commercial transport/fleet repair and refurbishing, specialty coatings for signs, and light industrial coatings; and sealants, coatings, technical cleaners, and transparencies for commercial, military, regional jet, general aviation aircraft, and transparent armor for military land vehicles. It also provides coatings and finishes for the protection of metals and structures to metal fabricators, and heavy duty maintenance contractors, as well as to ship, bridge, rail car, and shipping container manufacturers. In addition, the company sells industrial and automotive coatings to manufacturing companies; adhesives and sealants for the automotive industry; metal pretreatments and chemicals; and coatings and inks for aerosol, food, and beverage containers. Further, it supplies lenses, sun lenses, and optical lens materials; amorphous precipitated silicas for tire and battery separator markets; and Teslin substrate used in radio frequency identification tags and labels, e-passports, drivers licenses, and identification card applications. Additionally, the company offers chlor-alkali and derivative products, such as chlorine, caustic soda, vinyl chloride monomer, chlorinated solvents, calcium hypochlorite, ethylene dichloride, hydrochloric acid, and phosgene derivatives to manufacturing companies in the chemical processing, plastics, polyvinyl chloride, paper, minerals, metals, and water treatment industries. It also produces flat and continuous-strand fiber glasses for commercial and residential construction, wind energy, energy infrastructure, transportation, and electronics industries. PPG Industries sells its products through company-owned stores, home centers, paint dealers, and independent distributors, as well as directly to customers worldwide. The company was founded in 1883 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania..

United Microelectronics Corp (NYSE:UMC) - United Microelectronics Corporation operates as a semiconductor wafer foundry in Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, North America, and Europe. The company provides wafer fabrication services and other solutions that are designed to address the needs of foundry customers. Its services include design methodology solutions, such as foundry design kit, reference design flows, design verification, design for manufacturing solutions, and low power solutions. The company also offers silicon verification, testing/package solutions, intellectual property protection, mask tooling, and product yield management services. It offers its services United Microelectronics Corporation was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Hsinchu City, Taiwan..

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) - Johnson & Johnson, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the research and development, manufacture, and sale of various products in the health care field worldwide. Its Consumer segment offers products for use in the baby care, skin care, oral care, wound care, and women s health fields, as well as nutritional and over-the-counter pharmaceutical products, and wellness and prevention platforms under JOHNSON S, AVEENO, CLEAN & CLEAR, NEUTROGENA, RoC, LUBRIDERM, DABAO, VEND ME, LISTERINE, REACH, BAND-AID, NEOSPORIN, CAREFREE, o.b., STAYFREE, SPLENDA, TYLENOL, SUDAFED, ZYRTEC, MOTRIN IB, and PEPCID AC names. This segment markets its products to the general public, as well as to retail outlets and distributors. The company s Pharmaceutical segment provides various products in the areas of anti-infective, antipsychotic, contraceptive, dermatology, gastrointestinal, hematology, immunology, neurology, oncology, pain management, thrombosis, vaccines, and infectious diseases. This segment distributes its products directly to retailers, wholesalers, and health care professionals for prescription use. Its Medical Devices and Diagnostics segment offers electrophysiology and circulatory disease management products; orthopaedic joint reconstruction, spinal care, neurological, and sports medicine products; surgical care, aesthetics, and women s health products; minimally invasive surgical and sterilization products; blood glucose monitoring and insulin delivery products; professional diagnostic products; and disposable contact lenses. This segment distributes its products directly and through surgical supply and other distributors to wholesalers, hospitals, and retailers. Johnson & Johnson was founded in 1886 and is based in New Brunswick, New Jersey..

Corning Inc (NYSE:GLW) - Corning Incorporated produces specialty glasses, ceramics, and related materials worldwide. The company operates in five segments: Display Technologies, Telecommunications, Environmental Technologies, Specialty Materials, and Life Sciences. The Display Technologies segment manufactures glass substrates for liquid crystal displays (LCDs) for notebook computers, flat panel desktop monitors, and LCD televisions. The Telecommunications segment produces optical fiber and cable, and hardware and equipment products, including cable assemblies, fiber optic hardware, fiber optic connectors, optical components and couplers, closures and pedestals, splice and test equipment, and other accessories for optical connectivity to the telecommunications industry. This segment also provides optical fiber technology products for various applications, comprising premises, fiber-to-the-home access, metropolitan, long haul, and submarine networks. The Environmental Technologies segment manufactures ceramic substrates and filter products for emissions control in mobile and stationary applications. The Specialty Materials segment manufactures products that provide approximately 150 material formulations for glass, glass ceramics, and fluoride crystals. The Life Sciences segment develops, manufactures, and supplies scientific laboratory products, such as general labware and equipment, as well as tools and reagents for cell culture and bioprocess, and genomics and proteomics. This segment also develops and produces various technologies, including the Corning Epic systems for high throughput screening; the Corning HYPERFlask Cell Culture Vessel for increased cell yields; and other novel surfaces comprising Corning CellBIND Surface, the Corning Osteo-Assay surface, and the Corning Synthemax Surface. The company was formerly known as Corning Glass Works and changed its name to Corning Incorporated in April 1989. Corning Incorporated was founded in 1851 and is headquartered in Corning, New York..

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