price manipulation

With only seven suppliers, price manipulation may also be at work.

"Those who claimed that there was no price manipulation here were just plain wrong."

They call for listed companies to have at least 1,000 shareholders of record, which makes price manipulation more difficult.

Still, he sees no evidence now of price manipulation among the Big Three.

The report warned that these markets are vulnerable to price manipulation.

The biggest case so far, involving price manipulation of a new stock issue, dates back to 1972.

The bankers are accused of illegal stock price manipulation from 1979 to 1983.

Con Ed says it has already taken into account the possibility of price manipulation.

They have urged an investigation into possible price manipulation.

Officials said investigations were continuing into possible price manipulation and collusion among the companies.

It is because of this increase that we are calling for urgent measures to combat price manipulation.

This makes them vulnerable to traders' and marketing agents' price manipulations.

There are periodic government investigations of stock price manipulation, and one sweeping cleanup is under way.

Second, since withholding drove up prices across the board, each company profited from other companies' price manipulation.

Even some economists who think price manipulation was widespread say these other factors contributed to soaring prices.

This announcement has received wide coverage in the financial press, with speculation about oil futures price manipulation.

Long-term contracts can protect consumers from volatile prices and price manipulation by suppliers.

The number of investigations into possible illegal price manipulation by gasoline producers continues to grow daily.

The rules being relaxed are intended to protect investors from price manipulations by publicly traded companies.

State officials wanted refunds based on estimates of the overall overcharging that resulted from price manipulation.

This summer, the system operator began using a series of formulas to detect price manipulation and roll back sudden increases.

Those activities will include insider trading, stock price manipulation and assisting others in violating tax laws, according to the charges.

W.'s big move was to ever so slightly beef up a federal investigation into oil company price manipulation that's been under way since Katrina.

Since gross income has more than doubled in the decade, that tax revenues are about the same cannot be attributed to pricing manipulation.

Some Federal agents and police department officials say they suspect price manipulation is contributing to the higher prices in New York.