Ladbrokes/Coral merger fast-tracked to phase 2 investigation
M2 - Mon Jan 11, 9:47AM CST
Ladbrokes plc (Ladbrokes) has agreed to merge with certain businesses of Gala Coral Group Limited (Coral). Ladbrokes and Coral are, respectively, the second and third largest bookmakers in the UK by number of shops, known as licensed betting offices (LBOs). They also provide betting and gaming products online, 'on-course' at certain racecourses, and by telephone - as well as each operating 2 greyhound tracks.
Market Maker Surveillance Report. HLT, S, INTC, JBL, LDBKY, CIE, Bearishly Biased Price Friction For Tuesday, November 4th 2014
M2 - Wed Nov 05, 4:53AM CST
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 5018 companies with "abnormal" market making, 1857 companies with positive Friction Factors and 2957 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. HILTON HOTELS CP (NYSE:HLT), Sprint Nextel Corp (NYSE:S), INTEL CORPORATION (NASDAQ:INTC), JABIL CIRCUIT, INC. (NYSE:JBL), Ladbrokes PLC (OTC:LDBKY), COBALT INTERNATIONAL ENERGY, INCORPORATION (NYSE:CIE). To access Friction Factor, Naked Short Data and SqueezeTrigger Prices on all stocks please visit http://www.buyins.net .
HLT: 24.17 (+0.02), S: 5.93 (-0.09), JBL: 21.08 (+0.07), INTC: 35.24 (+0.27), CIE: 1.33 (-0.01)