GLL I understand where your perception is coming from because of what seems to be transpiring here. And in this case, I think I might agree with you.
But I do want to clarify a misconception I think you may have within the US capital markets. Every major financial instutition has multiple lines of business, including wealth management, instutional services, research, etc. The research end of it is supposed to be transparent, firms must disclose if they have a position in a equity they are covering. That firm must also have structures in place that prevent front running of inside information leaking from their research to their own proprietary trading groups. It is illegal for an analsyt to publicly say one thing and privately say something else.
Obviously no system is perfect, but transgessions happen everywhere, more so in smaller markets where not as many people are looking.
Although I think ThinkEquity stands to profit from a decline in TKO's value (Although I really have no idea), TKO has TKO to blame only in my opinion.
Some follow through right now from TKO will go along way to "correcting" the situation.
