Manipulating the markets, right from the online chat room
Today, we kick off a series on Wall Street technology. We start with something pretty low-tech: chat rooms.
Banks and traders are now under investigation, accused of meeting in chat rooms to hatch schemes to manipulate markets.
Robert Friedman, Editor-at-Large at Bloomberg News, joins Marketplace’s Mark Garrison to discuss.
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