Market-manipulation mutterings intensify

``This idea of manipulation seems to be spreading beyond the lunatic fringe where many investment letters dwell (often profitably)... longtime gold bug Richard Russell of Dow Theory Letters finally converted to the thesis that gold's price is subject to manipulation by a Wall Street-Washington alliance... the respected institutional service The Gartman Letter wrote early Wednesday morning: "Here in the U.S., we have seen example of ‘tape painting' before where the market's important indexes have hardly moved but where the broader markets have weakened materially, but yesterday's action was the ‘painty-iest' [sic] of all.''