Pump and dump (P&D) - Financial definition
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Concise definition of the term pump and dump
Pump and dump (P&D) is a type of fraud in securities markets which consists of artificially inflating (pump) the price of an owned stock using false and misleading positive statements, and then sell (dump) it at a higher price.