The rumour is that President Xi Jinping himself will attend.
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Initially the supreme court dismissed Mr Cui's reports as "rumour".
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AFTER SIX weeks of rumour, a progress report was due.
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There is even a rumour that America's spooks are interested.
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What's the most ridiculous rumour you've ever heard about yourself?
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The Walvis Bay rumour seems to be a red herring.
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Fingers crossed this is one rumour that comes to fruition.
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UniCredit shares came of highs after UniCredit denied the rumour.
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First came the malicious rumour spread by a jealous ex.
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And rumour had it that the vaccine would make girls infertile.
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Saudi Aramco said it did not comment on rumour or speculation.
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Any rumour of a new, or easier, route spreads like wildfire.
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Thus began two days of rumour, intrigue and violence (see article).
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Representatives of Macquarie and AMP declined to comment on the rumour.
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He hoped to "dispel the rumour that all diamonds are bad".
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The internet provides a never-ending stream of information, disinformation and rumour.
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State media, however, have dismissed such complaints as sensationalism and rumour-mongering.
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If rumour is right, Lyft, a ride-sharing app, may soon follow.
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Rumour has it that no one wants to marry a Seongju bride.
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That's strange because there's a rumour going around that it was you.
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"There is no truth to this rumour," an Emirates spokeswoman told Reuters.
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One rumour is that Mr Stuker does not actually pay for his flights.
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Whenever the rumour spreads that a barge is leaving, people rush to it.
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A "rumour-spreading" law means citizens are just one click away from jail.
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Fakhrieh Kashan on Saturday described that report as a "rumour and media lie".
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A rumour spreads that an ethnic Russian girl in Estonia has been raped.
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Contacted by Reuters, Aramco said it "does not comment on rumour or speculation".
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The rumour of investigations into Xiang is just another sign of the reining in.
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A rumour on WhatsApp claims that 22 military officers were quietly arrested this month.
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Rumour has it that she was campaigning in the south-west of England today.
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And yet, the rumour mill has been surprisingly quiet when it comes to Dallas.
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A spokesman for Ryanair said the airline does not comment on rumour or speculation.
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A Saudi Aramco spokesman said the company did not comment on rumour or speculation.
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When asked for comment, Saudi Aramco said it did not respond to rumour or speculation.
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So they started a rumour that Ashraf was having an affair with a Muslim woman.
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Although no wrongdoing has been alleged or found, the probe rattled China's rumour-sensitive creditors.
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There is an element of buying the rumour and selling the fact at work here.
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SELL on the rumour, buy on the news runs one version of a hoary stockmarket adage.
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The rumour among airline executives is that the MAX may not get airborne again this year.
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"No more, no rumour, no comment," he said, while seated next to Commerzbank CEO Martin Zielke.
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Bank of Langfang, in a statement on its website, also dismissed the media reports as rumour.
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Rumour has it that your air is totally toxic, so we pigeons are coming to investigate.
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And social media can spread panic and rumour, and economic contagion, literally at the speed of light.
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"Indeed, we could see a 'buy the rumour, sell the fact' response to the meeting," he said.
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He also cleared up the rumour that he was Zorro and does not have a magic wand.
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One persistent rumour is that the city is spending 160 billion yuan ($24 billion) on the G20.
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"Rumour has it" that Adele turned heads while displaying her new look at Drake's birthday party on Wednesday.
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A couple of cabinet secretaries, according to the Washington, DC rumour-mill, may also be reviewing their options.
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They are also easily integrated into rumour campaigns, such as the one about Hillary Clinton's health in 2016.
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"It is our long-standing policy never to comment on rumour or speculation," Etihad said in a statement.
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But probably not, as rumour had it, with his wife Dana, an Olympic javelin champion, on his back.
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One rumour suggests a union could follow between News Corporation, Foxtel and Ten, the third commercial TV network.
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The police and the local government didn't specify the nature of the rumour spread about Yingkou Coastal Bank.
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"It's buy the rumour, sell the fact... Even a delay could see an extremely negative reaction," he said.
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Rumour has it that, if he does indeed miss out, he'll be included on the international injury list.
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"What is rumour, what is to make us sleep, and what is true?" one Nigerian NGO worker wondered.
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The rumour was enough to prompt Rajput extremists to attack the set during filming in Rajasthan earlier this year.
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One rumour holds that tanks and other military gear have been redeployed from the Thai border to Phnom Penh.
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But the rumour was subsequently debunked, oddly enough, with the original article containing the information pulled from the web.
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The grinding of the proverbial rumour mill is endless, and social media feeds it with ever-more insubstantial chaff.
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Rumour also has it the folds of his abs house a den of pandas and library of feminist literature.
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Even kindly Mrs Gaskell couldn't help repeating a rumour she'd heard about the Dickenses' dinner service being solid gold.
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"It was a buy the rumour, sell the fact event," said Ben Le Brun, market analyst at Sydney's OptionsXpress.
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"With the trade deal, the market bought the rumour and sold the fact," Nathan Cordier of consultancy Agritel said.
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It actually talks about a "hot new rumour" that Russell Crowe could replace Seal as a coach on The Voice.
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On the back of the rumour of the tie-up, McDonald's Japan shares hit a 43-year high on Thursday.
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Nevertheless, the rumour mill is in near-constant overdrive about her health and there are regular hoaxes about her death.
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The fragmentation of news sources has created an atomised world in which lies, rumour and gossip spread with alarming speed.
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There is an old saying in the City of London: You buy on the rumour and sell on the facts.
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"The rumour that the naira is going to be devalued is false," said Isaac Okoroafor, a spokesman for the central bank.
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" The English singer-songwriter held none of his distaste back, elaborating, "The journalist who spread this rumour is an absolute plank.
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Rumour has it, an early version of the game is somewhere out there, waiting to be played for the first time.
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It is hard to separate fact from rumour right now: Algeria's politics are opaque and it lets in few foreign journalists.
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The Great Fear, as it is now known, tipped France into revolution with a flurry of fact-free gossip and rumour.
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Short for Australian politics, #auspol is most often used for commentary and rumour spreading about the machinations of the federal government.
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Former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, rumour has it, wanted a change of ambassador to bring in a more pro-Brexit voice.
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Otherwise the rumour mill will continue to churn out allegations and more confidants of the president are likely to get into trouble.
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A rumour that prostitution by minors will be legal in California from January has caused quite a stir on right-wing Twitter.
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Just the rumour that Mr Harrison might be moving to CSX caused the share price to rise by 21.7% in 22011 hours.
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The rumour in Brussels was that the new competition commissioner wanted to make a splash by hitting Facebook with a huge fine.
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But it was the rumour that Vanuatu might let China build a military base that really galvanised the Australian establishment last year.
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It was not in the house, nor at Ranka Jewellers; rumour had it that a creditor from Mumbai had taken it away.
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"Equity markets responded to the ECB very much in a "buy the rumour sell the fact" way," ANZ said in a note.
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Italy's UniCredit earlier rose more than 5 percent after an Italian news agency reported the rumour of a tie-up with Societe Generale.
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The government must report coronavirus outbreak information accurately in a timely manner, and will crack down on coronavirus related rumour-mongering, Xi said.
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This is a negotiation... I would urge caution that people don't get carried away on the back of rumour in the coming days.
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One was that pangasius are toxic; the other that the first rumour had been spread by traders in an attempt to suppress prices.
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After all, joining a gang is rarely a formal process; rumour, assumptions or suspicion can be enough to earn an elevated risk score.
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A spokeswoman for CBA in Sydney said that it was business as usual and the bank would not comment on rumour or speculation.
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His move to a far more socially liberal position even prompted a rumour that he was going to defect to the Labour Party.
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Now officials must manage the flow of facts and rumour about a virus that emerged in Wuhan, a large city in central China.
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But it is impossible to confirm the rumour—one more article of hope in what China likes to call its "high-speed rail dream".
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A juicy extract from the chapter was released by the Guardian last week, and The Smiths reunion rumour mill predictably lurched back into overdrive.
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They were joined by German nationalists and some supporters of the NPD, a neo-Nazi party eager to spread any negative rumour about refugees.
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In Ukraine a state still locked in conflict with pro-Russian separatists after decades of Soviet domination rumour and mistrust are also highly contagious.
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Their squad is what Arsenal's first team would look like if every fantastical transfer rumour of the last five years had come to fruition.
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A spokesman for Tesco declined to comment on what he said was "rumour and speculation" while Greenhill could not immediately be reached for comment.
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Michael Flynn's resignation as national-security adviser fed the rumour mill, as did Mr Trump's sacking of James Comey as director of the FBI.
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Ansa news agency reported earlier on Monday that the rumour of a tie-up between the two banks was circulating insistently in financial markets.
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Apple said it does not comment on speculation, while a spokeswoman for Amazon also said "the company does not comment on rumour and speculation".
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But as the president continues to hold back his tax records and other financial records from public scrutiny, they remain the focus for rumour.
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Dynamo Kyiv forward Andriy Yarmolenko is another perennial transfer rumour, and is bound to be the subject of much speculation in the coming months.
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Rumour has it that at the time of the financial crash designers were planning an entirely gold-plated private members' bar for its upstairs.
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Tedder and the British chanteuse teamed up for two tracks, co-writing and producing "Rumour Has It" on 23 (2011) then "Remedy" from 25 (2015).
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But after rumours of Chinese exchange shut-downs were confirmed, traders seem to be getting a case of the "buy the rumour sell the facts".
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The censors' reasoning may be that tattle about film stars might lead people to believe that it is also acceptable to peddle rumour about politicians.
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Like every Bond film lead-up, there's been a flurry of rumour and speculation about the fate of 007 in director Cary Joji Fukunaga's installment.
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The staffers promptly leaked the rumour, and began work on a bill to turn the sanctions, imposed by executive order under Barack Obama, into law.
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"Although the rumours of an RRR cut have lost traction, we believe this does not mean that the relevant rumour-mongers cango unpunished," it said.
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Because of WeChat's technical model that does not store or analyse user chats, the rumour that 'we are watching your WeChat everyday' is pure misunderstanding.
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The one advantage of such price gyrations is that they quickly alert a company to the existence of a rumour which is being taken seriously.
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The rumour is that it's being made to go up in the Piazza della Signoria in Florence to replace the damaged replica now standing there.
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But, as the rumour mill continued turning at seemingly-uncontrollable speed, it became increasing clear that something other than "no comment" needed to be said.
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When asked about the report, Flybe said it didn't comment on rumour or speculation, while the UK government's Department for Transport also declined to comment.
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The deliberate raising of doubts about retirement ages has triggered a round of rumour and concern in Beijing that Mr Xi may be considering going further.
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That is, every smear campaign with rumour-mongering and discord-sowing will only whittle down further his credibility and that of his country, the United States.
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The rumour is that it will soon be back on again—proof of normality amid the swirling political currents of this most peculiar of island republics.
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Her recent comments to Qyburn made it sound very much as though she was looking into the "old rumour" of wildfire being stored beneath King's Landing.
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"Although the rumours of an RRR cut have lost traction, we believe this does not mean that the relevant rumour-mongers can go unpunished," it said.
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"When we heard the rumour [of the new name], we checked whether the trade mark was registered and found that it was at preregistration," explains Boden.
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Sir Alan Donald's source: A "good friend" in China's State Council, who had "previously proved reliable and was careful to separate fact from speculation and rumour."
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"The rumour that a senior treasury official has resigned is obviously the main reason the rand moved lower," said chief dealer at Bidvest Bank Kumeran Govender.
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Rumour has it that the younger members of the squad call him "the Ballymoney Yoda", though this has yet to be confirmed by any reliable source.
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Nevertheless, the rumour remains that Fontana tried to hamper Villeneuve at the behest of Todt – who is now president of world motorsport's governing body, the FIA.
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She doesn't court the publicity machine anymore, even to the point of sanctioning press crib notes; she appears quite interested in rumour as an artistic medium.
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This is little more than a rumour aggregator, which takes transfer stories from a wide variety of outlets and links to them in an official capacity.
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Reputations usually aren't forged only through rumour, however, and there have been several notable incidents in which LNAH players have been alleged perpetrators and victims of criminality.
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"The rumour mill around producer cooperation has resumed, spurred by recent comments from Saudi Arabia's oil minister, allowing oil prices to gain," French bank BNP Paribas said.
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One rumour claims that, before military rule ended in 25, a biker threatened a general with a finger-gun gesture and was able to escape with ease.
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I know a lot of people are looking for reasons to be cheerful today, but there is NO TRUTH to the rumour about a #CursedChild movie trilogy!
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Keeping it a secret is only "the right thing to do" if you believe that unverified blackmail and vicious rumour are more ethically acceptable than sunlight and truth.
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Their leaders paint ethnic Malays as victims of sinister conspiracies—dangerous rumour-mongering in a country where politics is still defined by the racial violence of the 1960s.
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In one of her three recent mealy-mouthed apologies, Ms Park specifically denied one rumour: that shamanistic rituals had been held at the Blue House, the presidential office.
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As rumour swirled and party barons plotted, Ms Nahles sought to flush out her internal enemies by putting her leadership of its parliamentary group up for early election.
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So when a false rumour circulated on WhatsApp on May 11th that the bank was failing, no one who was inclined to panic had to wait until Monday.
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That statement, however, was actually dated July 24, meaning that the news had been circulating for at least a week before seeping into the broader market as rumour.
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"It was a case of buy the rumour and sell the fact in the markets," Mihir Kapadia, CEO and Founder of Sun Global Investments, told CNBC via email.
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I asked the company, Please make a public statement, because all you have now is a rumour mill and the information that a few patients weren't doing well.
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There is a rumour that author Jonathan Safran Foer left his wife for Natalie Portman without checking to see if Natalie was actually on board with dating him.
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This is but one example of how 'Media Watch' helps turn the incessant rumour mill, and how it might work to the detriment of the men in charge.
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The rumour mill went into overdrive earlier this week when it was announced that slots across the five major late-night show had been booked for a special guest.
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No law could silence the oldest and cruellest rumour of all: that Bhumibol had killed his brother by accident, while playing with the pistols both kept beside their beds.
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McDonald's confirmed on Friday the rumour it was involved, saying about 22016 of its restaurants will be Gyms in the game, while the remaining 28,250 outlets will be PokéStops.
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So much so, that Shakespeare immortalised the rumour that the Duke of Clarence chose drowning in a cask of Malmsey wine as his form of execution in Richard III.
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There is even a rumour running round Chisinau, Moldova's sleepy capital, that Aureliu Ciocoi, the new foreign minister, is planning to remove all the European flags from his ministry.
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The Chinese banking regulator's newly appointed chief on Thursday brushed aside suggestions that he would spearhead a merger of the country's three financial industry watchdogs, describing the talk as "rumour".
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"However, traders have already priced in a potential agreement and this might increase the downside risks as many abide to the rule: 'buy the rumour, sell the news'," he added.
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Ahead of UFC 207, UFC president Dana White confirmed the rumour to be true—with Goldberg, lovingly referred to as "Goldie," narrating his final UFC fights at that aforementioned event.
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Italy's UniCredit rose as much as 5.8 percent after an Italian news agency reported that the rumour of a tie-up with Societe Generale was circulating insistently in financial circles.
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"People were already panicked, then they made up this rumour and spread it, telling us not to even live in the community," said Deng, 45, a Santa Rosa, California, acupuncturist.
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It criminalised the publication of "any message, rumour, report or statement" that brought the government or any public officer "to ridicule or disrepute"—ie, any journalism feistier than a weather report.
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Yet the latest rumour is that Mr Dung, and perhaps some of his younger allies, will be sidelined by a conservative faction loyal to Nguyen Phu Trong, the present party leader.
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"Rumour mills will always be there… and social media by and large fuels that," says Leung, now the dean of medicine at the University of Hong Kong's School of Public Health.
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Henry Croft of Accendo Markets described "a widely touted 'buy the rumour, sell the fact' event" and investors are now focused on whether the tax reform will boost equities in 2018.
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"The rumour mill is going into overdrive and it looks like the worst kept secret is to be confirmed imminently," Jessica Bridge of Ladbrokes, which suspended betting this week, tells PEOPLE.
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Without doubt, several major nations – particularly Russia, but also China and Iran at the very least – have become adept at using leaks, rumour and political subterfuge to support their geopolitical ends.
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Before "I Want You To Know"—his collaboration with Selena Gomez and first single from True Colors—came out, there was a TMZ-inspired rumour that the pair were an item.
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The rumour remains unconfirmed—sources close to the firm and one of its biggest lenders dispute the claim—but investors may have felt a sense of déjà vu all the same.
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Past experience shows engrained distrust of official statements makes ordinary Chinese people prone to panicked herd movements in reaction to rumour - which is why China prosecutes so many for loose talk.
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But Mr Salvini appears to have believed a rumour that the increase was due to an amnesty (in reality, an annual pardon that led to the release of only around 400 prisoners).
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Yet although it is true that such services have indeed been vectors in the epidemic of deadly rumour, the focus on their role obscures other factors of equal or perhaps greater importance.
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While using Vegemite to make alcohol has been a recurring rumour locally, some community groups cast doubt on the prevalence of the practice when the issue erupted in the press last year.
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"No, no, it has been a rumour for a long while," said Sinochem Group's chairman, when asked if his company planned to acquire ChemChina, at the Asian Financial Forum in Hong Kong.
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"The euro has had generally a good week, and it's almost a dynamic of buy the rumour, sell the fact," said Mazen Issa, senior FX strategist at TD Securities in New York.
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Asked to confirm that the online retailer is bringing its restaurant delivery service to the U.K., a spokesperson for Amazon said that the company doesn't comment on "rumour and speculation regarding future plans".
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According to Petra Matic, a volunteer at the camp in Dunkirk, when the nearby Calais camp started to be cleared in October a false rumour spread that residents would be deported to Iraq.
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One rumour circulating in Washington suggests that Mr Trump will agree to lift sanctions in exchange for a mere freeze of North Korea's nuclear programme, without surrendering the bombs it has already made.
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But, as a false rumour about Ebola spreading in Vietnam circulated on Facebook, they agreed to help staunch the flow of misinformation by using their Facebook pages to publicise the ministry's Ebola updates.
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One rumour has it that, in the event of a Remain win, 100 MPs could endorse a vote of no confidence in Mr Cameron, double the number needed to trigger a leadership election.
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"Today's vote is considered a 'buy the rumour, sell the fact' play for the pound especially if the Brexit agreement is defeated by more than 100 votes," analysts at Singapore's DBS Group Research wrote.
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The final chapter of John, for example, believed by most scholars to be a later addition, reports that a "rumour spread among the disciples that this disciple would not die" (John 21:21–23).
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Henry Croft of Accendo Markets described it as "a widely touted 'buy the rumour, sell the fact' event" and said investors were now focused on whether the tax reform would boost equities in 2018.
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As well as sipping scotch with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show last night, Harrison Ford confirmed the rumour that he had accidentally punched Ryan Gosling in the face while filming Blade Runner 2049.
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"Note that there was no 'buying the rumour, selling the fact' syndrome: the tightening in credits since the announcement continued after they began hitting the market," said Erik Nielsen, Group Chief Economist at UniCredit.
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If fund managers choose to liquidate some of their existing long positions into a rising market, fund selling could help moderate the impact of tougher sanctions (a case of "buy the rumour, sell the fact").
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Alternatively, the threat of a Labour government might lead to the pound falling before the election, giving it the scope to appreciate afterwards (the old saying is "sell on the rumour, buy on the news").
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"I think we've seen a classic case of the rumour being bought and the fact sold, with sterling having rallied early last week in anticipation of a deal being close," said OANDA analyst Craig Erlam.
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The bizarre event was supposedly staged to clarify, after years of equivocation and rumour-mongering, that Mr Trump believes that Barack Obama was born in America, and is thus a legitimate holder of his office.
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The rumour, which appeared on Friday in Ming Jing News – a Chinese-language magazine and website that trades in salacious gossip and rumours about Communist Party cadres – has not received official comment by the insurance regulator.
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While formalising such a system would narrow divisions in the Chinese church over time, the recent rumour is that a pact could also lead to some reorganisation of the church as it presently exists in China.
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During a sit down on The Graham Norton Show, the actor explained the James Bond rumour and the relationship to his character in The Night Manager, which is currently being aired in the U.S. on AMC.
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"The latest move (is) seen as a typical 'buy-the-rumour-sell-the-fact' reaction as Donald Trump's pre-inauguration press conference proved to be a disappointment in terms of forthcoming growth-boosting policies," they said.
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A production line making Qashqai sports utility vehicles (SUVs) and Leaf electric cars may have its number of daily shifts reduced to two from three, Sky said, adding that Nissan described this as "rumour or speculation".
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"The impact of this rumour on our share price this morning illustrates the drastic impact such a move would have on the retail betting sector", William Hill Chief Executive Philip Bowcock said in an emailed statement.
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"Indeed, the actual range of goods hit with tariffs was less than feared ... Exemptions have turned this into something of a 'sell the rumour, buy the fact'-type scenario for investors," said Neil Wilson, analyst at Markets.
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To top off the absurdity of it all, this appears to be in the name of 'engagement', which is surely the only feasible reason that someone would sanction a dedicated rumour section on a club's official website.
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He was addressing media through a conference call in the wake of sharp recent falls in the shares of his group firms Reliance Power Ltd and its parent Reliance Infrastructure Ltd, which Ambani attributed to "unwarranted rumour-mongering".
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A road sweeper in his late twenties, Sawan Masih told police after his arrest on blasphemy charges that the real reason for the blasphemy allegation was a property dispute between him and a friend who spread the rumour.
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"Before now, I thought it was a rumour that the plastic rice is all over the country but with this seizure, I have been totally convinced that such rice exists," customs controller Mohammed Haruna told the Nigerian Observer.
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Whether that means Justice Kennedy is ready to vote for limits to partisan gerrymandering remains to be seen, but if his retirement next summer is more than a rumour, Mr Smith's plea may be ringing in his ears.
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Reaction to the rumour of Armstrong's imminent departure has sparked fresh speculation about jobs cuts on the anonymous workplace app Blind — with Oath/AOL/Yahoo employees suggesting additional rounds of company-wide layouts could be coming in October.
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And when I heard a rumour the man himself might be appearing at the London Film Festival in October to promote his new movie Stronger, I sensed another opportunity to embarrass myself could be just around the corner.
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"The Chinese yuan is a potential 'buy the rumour, sell the fact' play on the signing of the Phase 1 trade deal on January 15," wrote DBS analysts Philip Wee and Eugene Leow in a note on Monday.
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Jordan Rochester, a strategist at Nomura, said the pound's move was a classic "buy the rumour and sell the fact" price action with investors trimming some of their net short positions in sterling expected to be around $250 billion.
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A recent study by the U.S.-based Pew Research Center found about 60 percent of U.S. teens had been bullied or harassed online, with girls more likely to be the targets of online rumour-spreading or nonconsensual explicit messages.
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The club and its fans have been a vocal part of Germany's 'Refugees Welcome' movement, while rumour has it that the club shop has a dartboard in the window adorned with the face of none other than Donald Trump.
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One rumour, encouraged by sources in Warsaw, has it that Angela Merkel called PiS leaders to secure their support for her compatriot and ally (perhaps in exchange for German support to keep EU regional funds flowing to poor Polish regions).
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"We did Fort Smith, Tulsa, and Oklahoma City without Johnny Cash, and then we heard this rumour that Johnny was furious that we were finishing the tour under his name and that he had had a confrontation with Hap," said Western.
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LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Pakistani court acquitted 112 suspects in the 2013 torching of hundreds of Christian homes in the eastern city of Lahore over a rumour that one of the residents there had blasphemed, a lawyer said on Sunday.
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Boiler-room firms have used the tactic known as "pump and dump"—spread the rumour that a company is about to launch a hot, new product, or be taken over, and let small investors buy the shares at an inflated price.
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"The Slav Epic" went into hiding—rumour had it, buried in a grave—before resurfacing amid a temporary thaw in communist cultural suppression, in 1963, and going on display in a chateau in Moravsky Krumlov (200km [124 miles] southeast of Prague).
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She first made her stamp after delivering some seriously power-packed vocals to Rudimental tracks like "Love Ain't Just a Word", "Rumour Mill" and "All That Love" in 2015, before venturing into solo territory – something she had always planned to do.
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More than others, Indians should know that such play-acting heroism is a dangerous game; all too often it is just such seemingly silly things as a rumour about a film, or a suspicion of profanity, that spark runaway destruction.
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These terms have vanished, along with Usenet urban legends such as the "brain tumour boy" Craig Shergold (who wanted to break the Guinness World Record for most letters received), and the persistent rumour that the FCC wanted to tax your modem.
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U.S. equities funds were the worst hit after the $1.5 trillion bill's passage as investors applied the trading adage "buy the rumour, sell the fact" to a reform many hoped would deliver a direct boost to company profits and shareholder returns.
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Mengistu Haile Mariam fled Ethiopia in 1991; Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) decamped in 1997; a year later Sani Abacha of Nigeria died in office (or, as rumour has it, in the arms of prostitutes).
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It is not normally open to the likes of me: but when building works at Kenwood closed the ladies' pond for two weeks rumour had it that, if women turned up early enough in the morning, they would be allowed in.
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The bureau in Wuhan said the "rumour-mongering" at the beginning of the month, when a new virus had not been detected, `was not especially serious and the accused should be subject to "education" and "criticism" rather than fines or detention.
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It gained 0.4 percent to 84.45 pence per euro as an overnight burst for the single currency after Emmanuel Macron's expected win in the French presidential election faded, in what analysts said was a classic "buy the rumour, sell the fact" move.
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"We are already in the 'sell the rumour' mode on 10-year German Bunds but not so much in the periphery and the semi-core, so we could see some spread widening (if the ECB reduces purchases)," said ING strategist Benjamin Schroeder.
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"If this high U.S. GDP print is more luck than fundamental, then we won't be surprised to see a 'buy the rumour, sell the fact' type of reaction – with the dollar broadly weakening after the release," said the analysts in a note to clients.
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"So long as you keep your promise, people will not be susceptible, or as susceptible, to the rumour mill, because they know the maximum time they have to wait is 24 hours before you will come out and give the facts again," he says.
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"I have to rely on gossip and rumour to get an idea when clean oil will resume flowing," said a trading manager at a Western oil company which had to suspend purchases of Russian oil in Germany, which is connected to Druzhba via Poland.
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"We expect the triggering of Article 50 to initiate a 'sell the rumour, buy the fact' rebound in GBP from historic undervaluation as ambiguity over Brexit recedes," currency strategists at Barclays wrote, saying the markets had overestimated the downside to the pound resulting from Brexit.
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Rumour has also linked Commerzbank with French and Italian suitors, and suggested that Deutsche's bosses would prefer a deal with Switzerland's UBS, but ministers may be loth to see another big bank in foreign hands (HVB, based in Munich, is owned by Italy's UniCredit).
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As an activist during the democracy protests of 1989, he stood in a rumour-swept Tiananmen Square in early June and assured fearful comrades that, as a former soldier turned railway electrician, he was sure that the People's Liberation Army would never shoot fellow Chinese.
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"There is obvious uncertainty ahead of Theresa May's Brexit speech but what can this thing contain that we are not already fearful of," said Saxo bank's head of FX strategy John Hardy, adding it could be a case of sell the rumour, buy the fact.
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Early in the campaign he used his sense of humour to brush aside a rumour, long circulating in Paris, that he was having a secret gay affair: it must have been his "hologram", he joked, nodding to a campaign tool used by one of his rivals.
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For reasons that never came up during our conversation – see also: the wild rumour that he was allegedly lined up to be the support act for the London leg of Michael Jackson's This is It tour – Once Around the Sun has been deleted, removed, nuked from existence.
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"The key issue for sterling is that from an economic standpoint it looks tough and any bounce after a Brexit talks breakthrough will be a buy-the-rumour and sell-the-fact trade," said Richard Benson, co-head of portfolio investments at Millennium Global Investments Ltd in London.
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"Jenny Watson [chair of the Electoral Commission], indicated that the situation was not helped by the existence, at one point in the referendum, of a Facebook rumour that incorrectly said that voters had to re-register to make sure they could vote in the referendum," the committee notes.
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"So, recognising there will be a great deal of volatility in sterling in both directions as we have news and rumour around Brexit you can see a weakening trend for sterling ... we are generally underexposed to sterling and position for sterling to weaken a bit more from here," he said.
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France's official polling watchdog told Reuters last week that the country's nine main pollsters had committed to refrain from carrying out exit polls and said anything purporting to reflect results before the last polling stations close at 8 PM in France (1800 GMT) could only be a rumour at best.
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It was…for a rumour to be credible, it has to be an element of truth, yes we did a transaction with [inaudible] so if you put in the market that we are going to do [inaudible] investment bank, a lot of people will believe it, I have no control over that.
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Michael Gove only plunged the dagger twixt the former mayor's shoulder blades because he had been driven to exasperation by Mr Johnson's forgetfulness and lack of preparation (rumour has it he had written barely a third of his announcement speech by the early hours of the day he was due to give it).
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" Speaking to Kerr Holden about Movieland's legacy, he prefaces his next statement by making clear it's a rumour, but as he's heard it, "The plan is that once Jack passes away, he's going to sell the place so that his son and family have a good chunk of money to live on.
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From mainstream accounts to transfer rumour portals and even pedlars of inane football memes, the term 'BREAKING' is being used with stories ranging from what Wayne Rooney had for breakfast to Dele Alli's favourite Power Ranger, what time Robert Snodgrass went to bed last night to the colour of Mesut Ozil's socks.
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It is a fresh lesson in the power of disinformation to see decent, patriotic Chinese sharing tales of the CIA paying gullible Hong Kongers to join marches or smuggling in foreign rioters on late-night flights (a rumour sourced to a driver at Hong Kong airport, in the version that Chaguan heard).
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The rumour that has most blackened the crown prince's reputation, at least among the capital's sophisticates, is that he rubs along well with Thaksin Shinawatra, a divisive former prime minister who was toppled by a coup in 2006 and whom the ruling junta blames for the deep divisions that have destabilised Thailand ever since.
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It provided personal data on its users to Cambridge Analytica without their consent; more details emerged of how it became a channel for misinformation in America's presidential election; WhatsApp (which Facebook owns) and Facebook's News Feed were both used to spread falsehood and rumour in India, Mexico and Myanmar, culminating in lynchings and genocide.
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This was a popular move: in Texas, as elsewhere in America, the number of people who think the best response to gun violence and fear of terrorism is for upstanding citizens to arm themselves has risen in the past eight years, just as the sales of guns have risen with each rumour of restrictions on sales.
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Mr Trump and Mrs Clinton may have traded barbs about the extent to which the other is being open about their health, but these exchanges have been tame compared with the presidential election of 1800, when Jefferson's camp accused John Adams of having a "hideous hermaphroditical character" and Adams's lot spread a rumour that Jefferson was in fact dead.
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She said Bubs was running a brothel out of the LA hotel we were working in at the time, which Bubs took as a compliment, and since my pre-Bubs pet name for her was Tennessee we thought we'd just run with promoting the rumour by making flyers for a non-existent LA hotel club prostitution ring.
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One rumour in circulation is that Gadowski is in the midst of raising a "mega round" from multiple European VCs, with the aim of creating both a war chest to fend off Bird and Lime, but also to launch a pan-European e-scooter service that hits the road motoring via a roll up of other nascent e-scooter startups across the region.
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In the Six Nations, Wales beat Italy 216-211 in Rome on their way to a first title in more than a decade; Formula One teams were testing in Spain ahead of a memorable season which saw Fernando Alonso end Michael Schumacher's five-year dominance of the sport; and Lance Armstrong was preparing for his final Tour de France, the details of his industrial-scale doping exploits still little more than rumour.
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