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market manipulation  

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  • Market manipulation involves transactions or orders to trade that give—or are likely to give—false or misleading signals as to the supply, demand, or price of financial instruments. It also involves the alteration, by one or more persons acting in collaboration, of the price of one or several financial instruments to an abnormal or artificial level. [Source: Encyclopedia of White-Collar and Corporate Crime; Market Manipulation]

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/market_manipulation

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