# Price break

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## Definition

Sudden, unforeseen upward or downward price movements. - If prices are fraudulently pushed up in the financial market (painting the tape; market rigging), this is difficult to distinguish from transactions caused by market forces and poses problems for supervisory authorities. - See agiotage, algorithmic trading, bear market, bubble, speculative, federal securities, trading, covert common, bull market, yoyo stock, crystallization, price manipulation, price maintenance, price jump, price plunge, market manipulation, market maintenance, massive selling, Pairoff, panic selling, pump and dump, runup, volatility. - Cf. BaFin Annual Report 2003, p. 187. Attention: The financial encyclopedia is protected by copyright and may only be used for private purposes without express consent! University Professor Dr. Gerhard Merk, Dipl.rer.pol., Dipl.rer.oec. Professor Dr. Eckehard Krah, Dipl.rer.pol. E-mail address: info@ekrah.com https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Ernst_Merk https://www.jung-stilling-gesellschaft.de/merk/ https://www.gerhardmerk.de/

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