Jurek, I am also quite confused by today's action. Is it possible that one or more of these brokerages has a pair of accounts, where one normally sells into the other to control the price? And after a month or more of such manipulation, they are now doing big crosses to "re-load" the sell account?

The only problems with this theory are that:

A) Rumour of manipulation are probably greatly over-exaggerated.

B) Why not just sell back in the opposite direction, instead of doing a cross and coming at it again?

C) Is CLL really deserving of manipulation? If that were the case, then something big is about to happen, either for the positive or negative.

Well, on a good note, thinking about choice C, it can't get much worse.