Yet when a public company is under fire, market manipulation is often the cry when there is short-selling.
I think it's a problem when a 17-year-old child faces life in prison for killing a peer for their sneakers, while no one is policing Nike and Michael Jordan for being the fuel in the fire, marketing their product so heavily despite being fully aware of the very real potential for the loss of life.
The Odd Couple: The S.E.C. and High-Frequency Traders | Regulators are getting help policing the rapid-fire markets from an unlikely source — the rapid-fire traders.
Separately, Vodafone chief executive Arun Sarin yesterday took another step to stamp his authority on the group's board when he fired marketing director Peter Bamford.
If you expound on a rapid-fire market-timing strategy at a party, the probability of your winding up in the center of a circle of admirers is pretty high, perhaps close to 100%.
Instead of a CliffsNotes-style summary, investors are being treated to enriched detail about two hazards that have almost vanished: rapid-fire market timing and after-hours trading.
Bachus also has gained notoriety for rapid-fire market trades - rare for elected federal officials - that netted him more than $160,000 in 2007.
"Food is something they've been trying to solve for 20 years," said John Moore, a former marketing executive at Starbucks who is now chief operating officer of Brains on Fire, a marketing consulting firm.
But the proposals have also come under fire from market watchers who worry about the direction the industry is taking.
But will they still be up when this post goes live?The disturbing thing is that we're celebrating such an ephemeral break in the equity bloodbath after a truly remarkable salvo of policy moves was fired at markets.
Unfounded suspicions Although for every real insider trade there is probably a multitude of unfounded suspicions, there is still enough smoke to suggest that a smouldering fire of market abuse really does exist.
