However, he denied that this amounted to manipulation: "No.
And Mr. Bharara's office is examining whether some of the bank's trading in the energy markets amounted to manipulation.
In 2008, a Barclays employee told the authority that the bank was lowering its submissions for the London interbank offered rate, or Libor, although Barclays never specifically said the activities amounted to manipulation.
"I believe the legal changes amount to systematic manipulation," he said.
If the deception is proven, that would amount to market manipulation, a serious offence.
Doesn't putting these psychological insights, however well-meaning, into government policy amount to state manipulation of the people?
Such a change could lead to short squeezes in the form of sky-high borrowing costs, which could amount to stock manipulation on the upside, and he says it might be a good idea to put a cap on the fee.
TOKYO — The recent monetary push by Japan does not amount to currency manipulation and is a legitimate and much-needed effort to lift its economy out of deflation, the country's central banker said on Thursday after new figures showed an unexpected economic contraction in the fourth quarter.
Richard Painter, who was the chief ethics lawyer during the George W. Bush administration, said that Trump's attacks on Amazon could amount to market manipulation under U.S. securities laws and he could be vulnerable to lawsuits by stockholders.
This would have amounted to market manipulation.
Some fear their bearish research amounts to market manipulation.
