While investors fret about a contagion in the banking industry taking down the entire sector, U.S. regulators are investigating the possibility that “market manipulation” is what’s actually behind tanking bank stocks. A spike in short-seller activity and volatility in bank stocks has drawn the attention of federal and ...Read More

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against eight individuals in a $100 million securities fraud scheme in which they used the social media platforms Twitter and Discord to manipulate exchange-traded stocks. According to the SEC, since at least January 2020, seven of ...Read More

Grayscale Investments filed its first brief last week in its legal battle with the Securities and Exchange Commission over the agency’s refusal to let it convert its bitcoin fund into an exchange-traded fund. In an interview Monday for Yahoo Finance’s All Markets Summit, Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein ...Read More

Three men, including a father-and-son duo, were criminally charged on Monday with orchestrating a market manipulation scheme that briefly caused the owner of a tiny New Jersey deli to have a more than $100 million market valuation. Peter Coker Sr, 80, Peter Coker Jr, ...Read More