Isn't that supposed to mean they're short on shares and the Market Makers move the price down trying to scare people into selling?
This last week CNBC reported new NYSE rules of no stop losses. So the only way to have stop losses now on NYSE is via a feature of your brokerage firm not NYSE.
On the big drop day, someone posted here about possible delisting early next year (so maybe it was that, and a fund or two had to sell out as per their investment guidance)?
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