Everything you wrote above is possible and probably happening to some extent. Hive has its history with Steem before and the speculators use the same principles for the two tokens. Its the ones with liquid hive/hbd on exchanges that move the market.
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Yes, one of the disadvantages (imho) of tokens with significant rewards for staking is that it greatly reduces liquidity, thus making price manipulations much easier.