If the Chinese or some other entity in power has shorted our stock they would arrange to buy it back prior to any positive news...........

OMG, This all sounds so wickedly convoluted.

From the free dictionary:

convoluted - highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; (AND) "tortuous negotiations lasting for months"

Just trying to describe this wierd stock PPS action with one word.

Show me the permit!