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Market Maker Surveillance Report. SLB, WFC, INTC, DG, NWSA, TWO, Bearishly Biased Price Friction For Tuesday, March 19th 2013

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March 19, 2013 / 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 3961 companies with "abnormal" market making, 2118 companies with positive Friction Factors and 3315 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. Schlumberger NV (NYSE:SLB), WELLS FARGO & COMPANY (NYSE:WFC), INTEL CORPORATION (NASDAQ:INTC), Dollar General Corp (NYSE:DG), News Corp (NASDAQ:NWSA), Twoco Petroleums Ltd (NYSE:TWO). 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
  SLB     $-2.270   -2.97%    4,606,734    32.41%    3,441,889    24.22%    1,164,845    Abnormal
  WFC     $-0.160   -0.44%    7,231,723    30.60%    6,154,675    26.04%    1,077,048    Abnormal
  INTC    $-0.130   -0.61%    21,877,565   52.07%    19,771,848   47.06%    2,105,717    Abnormal
  DG      $-0.340   -0.71%    2,403,371    45.74%    1,254,197    23.87%    1,149,174    Abnormal
  NWSA    $-0.500   -1.67%    9,407,627    52.93%    8,360,527    47.04%    1,047,100    Abnormal
  TWO     $-0.400   -2.88%    20,043,721   37.38%    18,033,981   33.64%    2,009,740    Abnormal

For example, the chart above shows SLB with 1,164,845 greater shares of buying than selling (NetVol) and the stock price was down $-2.27000. 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.

Schlumberger NV (NYSE:SLB) - Schlumberger Limited, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the supply of technology, integrated project management, and information solutions to oil and gas exploration and production industries worldwide. It operates through three groups: Reservoir Characterization, Drilling, and Production. The Reservoir Characterization group provides reservoir imaging, monitoring, and development services; wireline technology that offers open-hole and cased-hole services; exploration and production pressure and flow-rate measurement services; information solutions, such as software, consulting, information management, and IT infrastructure services that support oil and gas industry; data interpretation and integration services; consulting services; and industry petrotechnical training solutions. The Drilling group designs, manufactures, and markets roller cone and fixed cutter drill bits, and drilling fluid systems; geo services; supplies engineering support, directional-drilling, measurement-while-drilling, and logging-while-drilling services; provides bottom hole assembly drilling tools, borehole enlargement technologies, impact tools, and tubulars and tubular services; and dynamic pressure management solutions. The Production group provides well services comprising pressure pumping, well cementing, stimulation, and intervention; well completion services and equipment, such as packers, safety valves, and sand control technology; artificial lift; coiled tubing equipment and services; slickline services for downhole mechanical well intervention, reservoir monitoring, and downhole data acquisition; subsea solutions; and geological storage solutions, including storage site characterization for carbon dioxide, as well as engages in the development, management, and environmental protection of water resources. Schlumberger Limited was founded in 1926 and is based in Houston, Texas..

WELLS FARGO & COMPANY (NYSE:WFC) - Wells Fargo & Company provides retail, commercial, and corporate banking services. The company's Community Banking segment offers deposits, such as checking accounts, savings deposits, market rate accounts, individual retirement accounts, time deposits, and debit cards; and loan products, including lines of credit, auto floor plan lines, equity lines and loans, equipment and transportation loans, education loans, residential mortgage loans, and credit cards. This segment also provides equipment leases, real estate and other commercial financing, small business administration financing, venture capital financing, cash management, payroll services, retirement plans, health savings accounts, credit cards, merchant payment processing, and private label financing solutions, as well as purchases retail installment contracts. Its Wholesale Banking segment offers commercial loans and lines of credit, letters of credit, asset-based lending, equipment leasing, international trade facilities, trade financing, collection services, foreign exchange, treasury management, investment management, institutional fixed-income sales, interest rate, commodity and equity risk management, online/electronic products, and investment banking services. This segment also provides construction loans, land acquisition and development loans, secured and unsecured lines of credit, interim financing arrangements, rehabilitation loans, affordable housing loans and letters of credit, permanent loans for securitization, commercial real estate loan servicing, and real estate and mortgage brokerage services. The company's Wealth, Brokerage, and Retirement segment offers financial advisory, wealth management, brokerage, retirement, trust, and reinsurance services. As of February 25, 2013, it provided services through approximately 9,000 stores, 12,000 ATMs, the Internet, and offices in approximately in 35 countries. The company was founded in 1852 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California..

INTEL CORPORATION (NASDAQ:INTC) - Intel Corporation designs, manufactures, and sells integrated digital technology platforms worldwide. The company operates through PC Client Group, Data Center Group, Other Intel Architecture, Software and Services, and All Other segments. It offers microprocessors that process system data and controls other devices in the system; and chipsets, which sends data between the microprocessor and input, display, and storage devices, such as keyboard, mouse, monitor, hard drive or solid-state drive, and optical disc drives; system-on-chip products that integrate its processing functions with other system components, including graphics, audio, and video onto a single chip; wired network connectivity products; and wireless connectivity products. The company also provides mobile phone components comprising baseband processors, radio frequency transceivers, and power management integrated circuits; and mobile phone platforms, such as Bluetooth wireless technology and global positioning systems receivers, software solutions, customization, and interoperability tests. In addition, it offers endpoint security, network and content security, risk and compliance, and consumer and mobile security software products for consumer, mobile, and corporate environments to protect systems from malicious virus attacks, as well as loss of data. Further, the company provides NAND flash memory products, which are used in solid-state drives. It sells its products primarily to original equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers, and industrial and communications equipment manufacturers in the computing and communications industries. Intel Corporation was founded in 1968 and is based in Santa Clara, California..

Dollar General Corp (NYSE:DG) - Dollar General Corporation operates as a discount retailer primarily in the southern, southwestern, midwestern, and eastern United States. The company provides paper and cleaning products, including paper towels, bath tissues, paper dinnerware, trash and storage bags, laundry, and other home cleaning supplies; packaged food and perishables comprising cereals, canned soups and vegetables, sugar, flour, milk, eggs, and bread; beverages and snacks, such as candies, cookies, crackers, salty snacks, and carbonated beverages; over-the-counter medicines and personal care products, such as soap, body wash, shampoo, dental hygiene, and foot care products; and pet supplies and pet food products. It also offers seasonal products consisting of decorations, toys, batteries, small electronics, greeting cards, stationery, prepaid cell phones and accessories, gardening supplies, hardware, automotive, and home office supplies; and home products, which include kitchen supplies, cookware, small appliances, light bulbs, storage containers, frames, candles, and craft supplies, as well as kitchen, bed, and bath soft goods. In addition, the company provides casual everyday apparel for infants, toddlers, girls, boys, women, and men, as well as socks, underwear, disposable diapers, shoes, and accessories. As of November 2, 2012, it operated 10,371 stores in 40 states. The company was formerly known as J.L. Turner & Son, Inc. and changed its name to Dollar General Corporation in 1968. Dollar General Corporation was founded in 1939 and is based in Goodlettsville, Tennessee..

News Corp (NASDAQ:NWSA) - News Corporation operates as a diversified media company worldwide. Its Cable Network Programming segment produces and licenses news, business news, sports, general entertainment, and movie programming for distribution through cable television systems and direct broadcast satellite operators primarily in the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. The company s Filmed Entertainment segment produces and acquires live-action and animated motion pictures for distribution and licensing in entertainment media, as well as produces and licenses television programming worldwide. Its Television segment operates 27 broadcast television stations in the United States. The company s Direct Broadcast Satellite Television segment distributes basic and premium programming services via satellite and broadband directly to subscribers in Italy. Its Publishing segment provides newspapers and information services, such as publishing national newspapers in the United Kingdom, approximately 146 newspapers in Australia, and a metropolitan and a national newspaper in the United States; book publishing services, including the publishing of English language books worldwide; and integrated marketing services comprising the publishing of free-standing inserts, which are marketing booklets containing coupons, rebates, and other consumer offers, as well as provides in-store marketing products and services, primarily to consumer packaged goods manufacturers in the United States and Canada. The company also provides data systems and professional services that enable teachers to use data to assess student progress and deliver individualized instructions. News Corporation was founded in 1922 and is headquartered in New York, New York..

Twoco Petroleums Ltd (NYSE:TWO) - Two Harbors Investment Corp. operates as a real estate investment trust (REIT) that focuses on investing in, financing, and managing residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), residential mortgage loans, residential real properties, and other financial assets. Its target assets include agency RMBS collateralized by fixed rate mortgage loans, adjustable rate mortgage loans, hybrid mortgage loans, or derivatives; non-agency RMBS collateralized by prime mortgage loans, Alt-A mortgage loans, pay-option ARM mortgage loans, and subprime mortgage loans; nonconforming residential mortgage loans; and single and multi-family residential properties, as well as asset-backed securities and hedging transactions that produce non-qualifying income for purposes of the REIT gross income tests. The company qualifies as a REIT for federal income tax purposes. As a REIT, the company would not be subject to federal income tax, if it distributes at least 90% of net taxable income to its stockholders. PRCM Advisers LLC operates as the manager of Two Harbors Investment Corp. Two Harbors Investment Corp. was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Minnetonka, Minnesota..

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