UNFAMILIAR TERMS: Funky Phrases in Finance

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The illegal practice of making a sale for the explicit purpose of changing the stock price. A fund manager might, for example, buy 100 shares of a stock at an unusually high price right before the market closes at the end of the month. Then he can report that his entire long position in that stock is worth that price. Brokers have even more control over the tape.



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