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Market Maker Surveillance Report. KO, FDC, AAPL, EWJ, MFC, KATE, Bullishly Biased Price Friction For Monday, May 8th 2017

^{Published on 2017-05-08 18:45:32 - WOPRAI}
 

May 8, 2017 / 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 5615 companies with "abnormal" market making, 2457 companies with positive Friction Factors and 3256 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. The Coca-Cola Co (NYSE:KO), First Data Corp (NYSE:FDC), Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), iShares MSCI Japan Index Fund (NYSE:EWJ), Manulife Financial Corporation (NYSE:MFC), Kate Spade & Company (NYSE:KATE). 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
  KO      $0.200    0.01%     3,573,877    23.65%    5,706,601    37.76%    -2,132,724   Abnormal
  FDC     $0.610    0.04%     2,749,485    20.80%    5,221,542    39.49%    -2,472,057   Abnormal
  AAPL    $3.950    0.03%     15,271,008   31.58%    17,440,537   36.06%    -2,169,529   Abnormal
  EWJ     $0.090    0.00%     2,873,858    24.07%    5,740,692    48.07%    -2,866,834   Abnormal
  MFC     $0.030    0.00%     609,235      7.97%     4,217,618    55.17%    -3,608,383   Abnormal
  KATE    $1.430    0.08%     45,701,997   36.42%    52,407,757   41.76%    -6,705,760   Abnormal

For example, the chart above shows KO with 2,132,724 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.

The Coca-Cola Co (NYSE:KO) - The Coca-Cola Company, a beverage company, manufactures and distributes various nonalcoholic beverages worldwide. The company primarily offers sparkling beverages and still beverages. Its sparkling beverages include nonalcoholic ready-to-drink beverages with carbonation, such as carbonated energy drinks, and carbonated waters and flavored waters. The company s still beverages comprise nonalcoholic beverages without carbonation, including noncarbonated waters, flavored and enhanced waters, noncarbonated energy drinks, juices and juice drinks, ready-to-drink teas and coffees, and sports drinks. It also provides flavoring ingredients, sweeteners, beverage ingredients, and fountain syrups, as well as powders for purified water products. The Coca-Cola Company sells its products primarily under the Coca-Cola, Diet Coke/Coca-Cola Light, Coca-Cola Zero, Fanta, Sprite, Minute Maid, Georgia, Powerade, Del Valle, Schweppes, Aquarius, Minute Maid Pulpy, Dasani, Simply, Glac au Vitaminwater, Gold Peak, FUZE TEA, Glac au Smartwater, Ice Dew, I LOHAS, and Ayataka brand names. The company offers its beverage products through a network of company-owned or controlled bottling and distribution operators, as well as through independent bottling partners, distributors, wholesalers, and retailers. The Coca-Cola Company was founded in 1886 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia..

First Data Corp (NYSE:FDC) - First Data Corporation (FDC), incorporated in 1989, operates electronic commerce, payment services and customer account management businesses. The Company operates in four segments: Payment Services Segment, which provides money transfer and bill payment services to consumers and businesses; Merchant Services Segment, which provides merchant and debit network acquiring and processing services, automated teller machine (ATM) processing and check verification and guarantee services; Card Issuing Services Segment, which provides credit, debit, private-label, loyalty, smartcard and debit network issuing and processing services, and All Other and Corporate, which includes voice-center services, interactive voice response (IVR) services and various forms of facilitating government payments. The Company acquired 100% of Vigo Remittance Corp. (Vigo) in October 2005, a provider of consumer-to-consumer money transfer services to various countries. On January 26, 2006, FDC announced its intention to separate the Western Union money transfer business (a component of the Payment Services segment) into an independent company through a spin-off of 100% of Western Union to the Company's shareholders.

Payment Services Segment

In the Payment Services segment, FDC provides money transfer and bill payment services either from location to another, or through the issuance of an official check or money order by a bank or other institution. The money transfer and bill payment services are provided through agent networks that consist of approximately 271,000 agent locations in more than 200 countries and territories. The services and product offerings of the Payment Services segment include consumer-to-consumer money transfers, consumer-to-business bill payment services, official checks and money orders, prepaid services and transportation-related payment services. Consumer-to-consumer and consumer-to-business transactions generated 87% of the segment's revenues for the year ended December 31, 2005.

The Company provides money transfer services to people who periodically need to send funds to family and friends in other locations, or to send or receive cash quickly in emergency situations. As providers of consumer-to-consumer non-bank money transfer services, Western Union, Vigo Remittance Corp., and Orlandi Valuta branded operations have an agent network of nearly 73,000 agent locations in North America (United States, Canada and Mexico) and more than 198,000 international agent locations that provide consumer-to-consumer money transfer services in more than 200 countries and territories. FDC enters into agency agreements with third parties to provide its money transfer services. Outside North America, many of the agreements are with banks and national post offices. Certain agents of the Company maintain sub-agent networks within their territory. Approximately 80% of the Company's consumer-to-consumer transactions involve at least one non-United States location.

Payment Services offers several cash and e-commerce bill payment services, including enabling transferring payments from consumers to utility companies, collection agencies, finance companies, mortgage lenders and other billers. FDC issues official checks, which are sold primarily through financial institutions and money orders, which are sold at financial institutions (financial institution money orders), and under the Western Union brand, at non-bank retail locations (retail money orders).

Prepaid service businesses develop, implement and manage prepaid stored-value card issuance and processing services for retailers (gift cards) and others. The full-service stored-value/gift card program offers transaction processing services, card acquisition and customer service for over 200 national brands. In addition, Western Union's prepaid service business markets a Western Union branded stored-value card and provides prepaid phone and stored-value card top-up services for third parties. The Company provides payment processing, settlement and specialized reporting services for t.

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) - Apple Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, and portable digital music players to consumers, small and mid-sized businesses, and education, enterprise, and government customers worldwide. The company also sells related software, services, accessories, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. It offers iPhone, a line of smartphones; iPad, a line of multi-purpose tablets; and Mac, a line of desktop and portable personal computers. The company also provides iLife, a consumer-oriented digital lifestyle software application suite; iWork, an integrated productivity suite that helps users create, present, and publish documents, presentations, and spreadsheets; and other application software, such as Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro X, and FileMaker Pro. In addition, it offers Apple TV that connects to consumers TV and enables them to access digital content directly for streaming high definition video, playing music and games, and viewing photos; Apple Watch, a personal electronic device; and iPod, a line of portable digital music and media players. Further, the company sells Apple-branded and third-party Mac-compatible, and iOS-compatible accessories, such as headphones, displays, storage devices, Beats products, and other connectivity and computing products and supplies. Additionally, it offers iCloud, a cloud service; AppleCare that offers support options for its customers; and Apple Pay, a mobile payment service. The company sells and delivers digital content and applications through the iTunes Store, App Store, Mac App Store, TV App Store, iBooks Store, and Apple Music. It also sells its products through its retail and online stores, and direct sales force, as well as through third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers. Apple Inc. was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Cupertino, California..

iShares MSCI Japan Index Fund (NYSE:EWJ) - ISHARE MSCI JAPAN.

Manulife Financial Corporation (NYSE:MFC) - Manulife Financial Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides financial advice, insurance, and wealth and asset management solutions for individuals, groups, and institutions in Asia, Canada, and the United States. It offers various individual life, and individual and group long-term care insurance through insurance agents, brokers, banks, financial planners, and direct marketing. The company also provides pension contracts and mutual fund products and services; various retirement products to group benefit plans; and annuities, single premium, and banking products, such as deposit and credit products to Canadian customers, as well as non-guaranteed, partially guaranteed, and fully guaranteed investment options through general and separate account products. It distributes wealth and asset management products through insurance agents and brokers affiliated with the company, securities brokerage firms, financial planners, pension plan sponsors, pension plan consultants, and banks. In addition, the company is involved in the asset management business; property and casualty reinsurance business; and run-off reinsurance operations, including variable annuities, and accident and health. Further, it manages timberland and agricultural portfolios; and insurance agency, investment counseling, portfolio and mutual fund management, mutual fund dealer, life and financial reinsurance, and mutual funds marketing businesses, as well as investment management, advisory, and dealer activities. Additionally, the company holds and manages oil and gas properties; holds oil and gas royalties, and foreign bonds and equities; and develops and operates hydro-electric power projects. Manulife Financial Corporation was founded in 1887 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada..

Kate Spade & Company (NYSE:KATE) - KATY ENERGY CORP.

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