market manipulator

It's a song familiar to everyone from market manipulators to drug dealers.

Once the tabloids give "buy gold" as the sound investment advice the market manipulators will get out, and in a hurry.

He may be the prototype of the American artist as hustler, social climber, market manipulator and entrepreneur.

Nevertheless, Member States must increase the resources available to their regulators so that they can be effective in their investigation and pursuit of market manipulators.

"This isn't the old days where there are three rich market manipulators in a back room threatening to pull the pin," Mr. Rubin said.

Your brothers are murderers, stock market manipulators, gang rapists, robbers, arsonists, litterers, polluters and child abusers.

One would expect the repeat winners in this life-or-death contest to be hard-hitting entrepreneurs and market manipulators in the mold of the age of Reagan.

Grabbe responded by gathering facts about these activities, albeit from the mindset of a researcher with an intent to reveal the activities of the market manipulators.

I have already written here about Jonathan Lebed, the 15-year-old boy in the New Jersey suburbs who used the Internet to transform himself into a stock market manipulator.

In effect, the market manipulator creates a temporary monopoly position for himself - the market corner - and exploits that temporary monopoly by selling some but not all of his stockpile at very high prices.

"Right now, it is far too easy for market manipulators to make a quick killing by putting a company into play and cashing in on the rise in the price of its stock," Senator Proxmire said.

Ordinary stockholders who want to avoid being burned by market manipulators can take some basic precautions: keeping track of new financings by companies in which they own shares and getting out when a deal is announced on unfavorable terms.

The Philadelphia office had brought the case, and so when the producer from "60 Minutes" called to say he wanted to do a big segment about the world's first teenage stock market manipulator, he called the Philadelphia office.

And Sumitomo's strategy did indeed eventually come to grief--but only because Hamanaka apparently could not bring himself to face the fact that even the most successful market manipulator must accept an occasional down along with the ups.

The investigation, which threatened to crack down on a widespread practice of trading on dummy accounts and which was linked to two of Taiwan's biggest purported market manipulators, sent panic through the exchange on Monday.

In his first seven months in office, Mr. Salinas has won respect at home and abroad with dramatic blows against corrupt union leaders, drug traffickers, stock market manipulators, murderous police officials and vote-riggers within his own party.

Illegal no doubt, but as John Steele Gordon reports with considerable zest, mild stuff compared with the bare-knuckle techniques of such fabled market manipulators as Jay Gould, Jim Fisk and Daniel Drew.

The book tells the story of Livermore's progression from day trading in the then so-called "New England bucket shops," to market speculator, market maker, and market manipulator, and finally to Wall Street where he made and lost his fortune several times over.

Whenever companies are in trouble or there is panic in the market - from the bursting of the South Sea bubble in London in 1720 to the plunge in markets after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks - critics are often quick to vilify short-sellers as market manipulators.

At the center of the carefully wrought four-hour documentary, which begins tonight at 8 on PBS, is Joseph P. Kennedy, the stock market manipulator, bootlegger, producer of low-budget movies and womanizer who became, in the narrator's assessment, "the richest Irish-American on earth."

More criticism is given in the book Conspiracy of Fools, which gives the details of a meeting between the governor and his officials; Clinton Administration Treasury officials; and energy executives, including market manipulators such as Enron, where Gray Davis disagreed with the treasury officials and energy executives.