tl;dr: Wall Street is pissed that their jobs are being replaced by bots.<p>Considering the frequency and regularity of reports like these in main stream media, this smells a lot like good ol&#x27; fashioned market manipulate. I would be interested to see some analysis on who consistently acts on the dips resulting from myopic media reporting.<p>How can you make money trading on a market whose volatility can&#x27;t be manipulated by artificially limiting the supply of raw materials? Create panic, hedge against the drop, buy on the dip, cash after the correction.<p>The perceptions of investors are a hell of a lot easier to change than the actual markets themselves. It wouldn&#x27;t be the first time the media was used to commit securities fraud.