RE: SP manipulation at its best!A bit far fetched, I don't think that Rosconi retirement or that Bozo the share seller clown (Don't forget that management gave him those options so he could dump those shares!!!!!!!!) are making the difference.
But one could imagine that if you wanted to buy this company in the near futur, it would be tempting to make sure the price of the share is kept low (lets say $5) so that you could make a bid of $7.5 per share (50% premium). This could certainly be attractive to a lot of shareholders and would probably cost no more then short selling about 1 million to 2 million shares at a lost of $1 per share, which comes out to about 1 to 2 million dollars.
On the other hand, letting the price move upwards (lets say to $7) could entail having to pay $10.50 on a buyout and that would represent having to dish out $2.50 more a share on 60 million shares.
The first option costs 1 to 2 millions, the second options cost 150 millions more.