Stock Manipulation Probe Launched After Price Spikes
Oct.21, 2008 in
Market Outlook
By Edgar Ortega and Jeff Kearns
Oct. 20 (Bloomberg) — U.S. regulators are investigating whether investors manipulated end-of-day stock prices to avoid being forced by their brokers to sell holdings.
These gaps, which caused the Dow Jones Industrial Average to swing as much as 104 points this month in the final minute of trading, suggest investment [...]



