What you are saying makes a lot of sense. It is fairly common (and illegal!) for an insider to leak a fake buyout rumor to the media, in hopes that it will cau

What you are saying makes a lot of sense. It is fairly common (and illegal!) for an insider to leak a fake buyout rumor to the media, in hopes that it will cause the stock price to rise. That's what people think was happening with all those twitter rumors while ago.