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Market Maker Surveillance Report. XLU, C, V, S, F, XBKS, Bullishly Biased Price Friction For Monday, October 24th 2016

^{Published on 2016-10-24 18:45:18 - WOPRAI}
 

October 24, 2016 / 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 5599 companies with "abnormal" market making, 3370 companies with positive Friction Factors and 2607 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. Utilities Select Sector SPDR (NYSE:XLU), Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:C), Visa Inc. (NYSE:V), Johnson Lambert & Co. (NYSE:S), Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F), Xenith Bankshares Inc. (NASDAQ:XBKS). 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
  XLU     $0.200    0.00%     2,646,352    21.06%    4,822,074    38.38%    -2,175,722   Abnormal
  C       $0.010    0.00%     2,711,537    25.39%    4,542,052    42.52%    -1,830,515   Abnormal
  V       $0.970    0.01%     2,624,108    17.78%    4,949,316    33.53%    -2,325,208   Abnormal
  S       $0.380    0.06%     7,143,577    26.54%    11,059,549   41.09%    -3,915,972   Abnormal
  F       $0.180    0.02%     10,785,316   33.40%    15,105,389   46.78%    -4,320,073   Abnormal
  XBKS    $0.060    0.03%     37,182       1.75%     2,057,962    97.05%    -2,020,780   Abnormal

For example, the chart above shows XLU with 2,175,722 greater shares of selling than buying (NetVol) and the stock price was up $0.20000. 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.

Utilities Select Sector SPDR (NYSE:XLU) - UTILITIES SEL SPD.

Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:C) - Citigroup Inc., a diversified financial services holding company, provides various financial products and services for consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions worldwide. It operates through two segments, Citicorp and Citi Holdings. The Citicorp segment offers traditional banking services to retail customers through retail banking, commercial banking, Citi-branded cards, and Citi retail services. This segment also provides various banking, credit card lending, and investment services through a network of local branches, offices, and electronic delivery systems. In addition, it offers wholesale banking products and services to corporate, institutional, public sector, and high-net-worth clients. Further, this segment provides fixed income and equity sales and trading, foreign exchange, prime brokerage, derivative services, equity and fixed income research, corporate lending, investment banking and advisory services, private banking, cash management, trade finance, and securities services. As of December 31, 2015, it operated 2,994 branches in 24 countries. The Citi Holdings segment provides consumer loans; portfolio of securities, loans, and other assets; and retail alternative investment and other services. Citigroup Inc. was founded in 1812 and is based in New York, New York..

Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) - Visa Inc., a payments technology company, operates an open-loop payments network worldwide. The company facilitates commerce through the transfer of value and information among financial institutions, merchants, consumers, businesses, and government entities. It operates VisaNet, a processing network that enables authorization, clearing, and settlement of payment transactions; and offers fraud protection for account holders and assured payment for merchants. The company also provides a suite of digital, ecommerce, person-to-person payments, and mobile products and services. In addition, it offers merchant gateway services for ecommerce merchants to accept, process, and reconcile payments; manage fraud; and safeguard payment security online, as well as processing services for participating issuers of visa debit, prepaid, and ATM payment products. The company provides its services under the Visa, Visa Electron, Interlink, and PLUS brands. Visa Inc. has a strategic alliance with Bottomline Technologies. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California..

Johnson Lambert & Co. (NYSE:S) - Sprint Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides various wireless and wireline communications products and services to consumers, businesses, government subscribers, and resellers in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The company operates in two segments, Wireless and Wireline. The Wireless segment offers wireless data communication services, including mobile productivity applications, such as Internet access, messaging, and email services; wireless photo and video offerings; location-based capabilities comprising asset and fleet management, dispatch services, and navigation tools; and mobile entertainment applications. It also provides wireless voice communications services that include local and long-distance wireless voice services, as well as voicemail, call waiting, three-way calling, caller identification, directory assistance, and call forwarding services. In addition, this segment offers voice and data services internationally through roaming arrangements; and customized wireless services to large companies and government agencies, as well as sells wireless devices, broadband devices, connected devices, and accessories to agents and other third-party distributors. The Wireline segment provides wireline voice and data communications, including domestic and international data communications using various protocols, such as multiprotocol label switching technologies, Internet protocol (IP), managed network services, Voice over IP, session initiated protocol, and traditional voice services to other communications companies, and targeted business and consumer subscribers, as well as for cable multiple system operators. Sprint Corporation offers its services under the Sprint, Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile, and Assurance Wireless brands. The company was founded in 1899 and is headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas. Sprint Corporation is a subsidiary of SoftBank Group Corp..

Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F) - Ford Motor Company, together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, markets, finances, and services automobiles. The company operates through two sectors, Automotive and Financial Services. The Automotive sector develops, manufactures, distributes, and services passenger cars, trucks, SUVs, light commercial vehicles, trucks, vans, and electrified vehicles, as well as offers parts and accessories. It offers vehicles primarily under the Ford and Lincoln brand names. This sector markets and sells its products through distributors and dealers, as well as through dealerships to fleet customers, including commercial fleet customers, daily rental car companies, and governments. The Financial Services sector offers various automotive financing products to and through automotive dealers. It provides financing products, including retail installment sale contracts for new and used vehicles; and direct financing leases for new vehicles to retail and commercial customers, government entities, daily rental car companies, leasing companies, and fleet customers. This sector also offers wholesale loans to dealers to finance the purchase of vehicle inventory; and loans to dealers to finance working capital and improvement of dealership facilities, purchase dealership real estate, and other dealer vehicle programs. It serves clients in North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. Ford Motor Company was founded in 1903 and is based in Dearborn, Michigan..

Xenith Bankshares Inc. (NASDAQ:XBKS) - Xenith Bankshares, Inc. operates as the holding company for Xenith Bank that provides community and commercial banking services primarily to individuals and small to medium-sized businesses in Virginia, North Carolina, Delaware, and Maryland. It provides interest-bearing and noninterest-bearing deposit accounts, including commercial and retail checking accounts, negotiable order of withdrawal accounts, savings accounts, and individual retirement accounts, as well as certificates of deposit. The company also offers commercial and industrial loans to businesses for financing of accounts receivable, inventory, or equipment and machinery; construction loans to individuals and businesses for the construction of single family residential and multi-family properties, and commercial projects, as well as the development of residential neighborhoods and commercial office parks; commercial mortgage loans for the purchase and re-financing of owner and non-owner occupied commercial properties; residential mortgage loans; installment loans for personal, family, and general household needs; and automobile, marine, home improvement, vacations, and debt consolidation loans. In addition, it provides other banking-related specialized products and services, such as travelers checks, coin counters, wire services, online banking, and safe deposit box services; cash management products, such as remote deposits; payment processing solutions to retailers and other industries; letters of credit and standby letters of credit to commercial customers; and mortgage loans for sale to the secondary market. Further, the company offers investment securities; insurance services; and telephone, Internet, and mobile banking services. It operates 42 full-service offices and 5 loan production offices. The company was formerly known as Hampton Roads Bankshares, Inc. The company was founded in 1961 and is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia..

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