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financial manipulation  

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  • The financial manipulation of stock market quotations consists in the altering of the ordinary course of supply and demand. This is done through devices that stimulate or depress stock prices, thus seriously distorting the market by not letting share prices be fixed naturally in free market exchange. [Source: Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society; Manipulation, Financial]

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