I mean, part of the entire point of the stock market is that it operates on investor confidence; these kind of effects happen all the time from many different causes. If this kind of thing scares you, it kind of seems like the whole stock market itself would scare you.<p>Heck, there&#x27;s a separate sub-sector of the financial industry devoted to &quot;dark equity&quot; and hiding the actions of influential actors in order to not produce these effects.