1.   The traders, who were alleged to have defrauded thousands of investors by manipulating share prices, were arrested after a three-year undercover investigation.

2.   And a federal energy regulator announced plans to investigate whether Enron and other companies manipulated electricity prices in California last year.

3.   And just last week, Australian regulators charged the company with manipulating futures prices.

4.   Armstrong said earlier this week that he was approached by attorneys who were preparing a suit charging that speculators had accumulated enough silver to manipulate prices.

5.   Big oil companies do not, as Gore said Tuesday night in Boston, Mass., manipulate the price of oil.

6.   A panel of the Senate Commerce Committee is holding hearings on whether Enron manipulated energy prices in California last year.

7.   All he knew was that the oil companies had the power to manipulate prices, up or down.

8.   All the firms charged have strongly denied that they collude to manipulate prices on the NASDAQ markets.

9.   But Greenspan opposes a plan to pull oil out of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in an effort to manipulate prices downward.

10.   But while approving the settlement, Chairman Robert Pitofsky and Commissioner Mozelle Thompson hinted that they thought BP had gotten off easy for allegedly manipulating West Coast prices.