Provided You're Not United Airlines

At 10:53 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time Monday, a reporter at a Florida-based investor information service did a routine Google search and found a story saying United Airlines was declaring bankruptcy.

Holy crap:

The stock, trading at $12.45, crashed to $3, according to Nasdaq. So severe was the market's response that Nasdaq halted trading from 11:06 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The exchange says the rest of the day's trades will stand.

One can only wonder at the changes in fortune of various people. Imagine you bought a pile of that stock at $3.20 a share. When it was still worth $12.45. Whew . . . .

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Wow thats right out of 007. Manipulate the news and profit like crazy.

I wish I knew this guy, but 100k shares after he puts out the bad story, and buy yourself an SLR the next day.

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