[EvanPlaice]

tl;dr: Wall Street is pissed that their jobs are being replaced by bots.

Considering the frequency and regularity of reports like these in main stream media, this smells a lot like good ol' fashioned market manipulate. I would be interested to see some analysis on who consistently acts on the dips resulting from myopic media reporting.

How can you make money trading on a market whose volatility can'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.

The perceptions of investors are a hell of a lot easier to change than the actual markets themselves. It wouldn't be the first time the media was used to commit securities fraud.