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What is price manipulation?
Price manipulation is when companies unfairly influence the cost of goods or services, often by colluding or withholding supply. Trump's directive for the US justice department to investigate this suggests a concern that current high fuel prices aren't purely down to market forces, but potentially anti-competitive practices.
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