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Latest Market Manipulation News

Test for FMA - proving manipulation in an easily manipulated market
The civil proceedings by the Financial Markets Authority (FMA) against Mark Warminger for market manipulation while a portfolio manager for Milford Asset Management Limited will provide an interesting test case. The law is well-established. The ...
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BP manipulated Texas natural gas market in 2008, judge says (BP)
BP manipulated the Texas natural gas market in 2008 and then conducted an inadequate internal investigation, a U.S. administrative law judge ruled today, opening the possibility of more fines against the company because the scheme took place after ...
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Chinese company under probe for market manipulation
Prospects are dim for China's Hanergy Thin Film Power to resume trading soon in Hong Kong as regulators extend their two-month investigation into its dramatic share price fall in May. The mainland China-based solar technology firm, which quickly became ...
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Give Bibi the Nobel Peace Prize

Give Bibi the Nobel Peace Prize
In fact, he has been focused on the issue since the early 1990s, making it a central subject in his 1995 book, Fighting Terrorism: How Democracies Can Defeat Domestic and International Terrorism, where he wrote that Iran would have a nuclear weapon ...
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Foreign Policy Experts Warn Against Iran Deal
Foreign policy experts and opponents of the deal pushed against the administration's pitch during a Heritage Foundation panel Thursday, arguing that the reality is more complex. Emanuele Ottolenghi, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of ...
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Billions Trailer: Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis Follow the Money

Billions Trailer: Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis Follow the Money
... corruption as personified in two highly ambitious opposing figures: hard-charging, blue-blooded, politically connected U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades (Giamatti) and brilliant, calculating, blue-collar billionaire hedge fund king, Bobby “Axe” Axelrod ...
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On the Defensive, the SEC Quietly Pursues High-Profile Cases
In one case, the S.E.C., in tandem with other authorities, is poised to file charges soon in an unusual investigation that combines insider trading with cybersecurity, according to people briefed on the investigation but not authorized to speak ...
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Hackers Stole Secrets for up to 0m Insider-Trading Profit: US
Prosecutors announced charges against nine people in an insider-trading case that marks the first time criminal charges have been brought for a securities fraud scheme involving hacked inside information, in this instance 150,000 press releases from ...
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The Rights And Privileges Of Mr. Peeping Tom

The Rights And Privileges Of Mr. Peeping Tom
It played moral police and tried to curtail the uninterrupted consumption of free online porn but legions of online Peeping Toms rose in protest and like Speedy Gonzales the state had to revoke the ban. Armed to the teeth with special devices for ...
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Kids Company shows how charitable hearts can rule heads
And until recently the mixture of charismatic do-goodery and emotional blackmail worked. None of what economists call “moral hazard” (paying the price of risk and failure) for people clearly bent on doing good. At a stretch it could sound like the ...
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.4b loss caps Atlas horror
Influential higher education consultant David Phillips has warned of ''a very large moral hazard'' in the federal government's university deregulation package, which Education Minister Christopher Pyne is still pushing to pass in the Senate. The Fin.
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