<p>OTTAWA BlackBerry contends that a securities analyst's report about its latest phone is not only wrong, it's so wrong that it should be investigated by securities regulators. Andrew Winning/Reuters</p><p>Ben Stephens, a BlackBerry sales manager, demonstrates a new BlackBerry Z10 to a prospective customer in London.</p><p>The report, issued on Thursday by Detwiler Fenton &amp; Company in Boston, said that BlackBerry's new Z10 phone is being returned by shoppers at an above-average rate. In a statement on Friday, BlackBerry called the analysis "false and misleading" and suggested that it was an attempt to manipulate the company's share price. Furthermore, it said it would ask the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate the report.</p><p>"These materially false and misleading comments about device return rates in the United States harm BlackBerry and our shareholders," Steven E. Zipperstein, the company's chief legal officer, said in a statement. "Everyone is entitled to their opinion about the merits of the many competing products in the smartphone industry, but when false statements of material fact are deliberately purveyed for the purpose of influencing the markets, a red line has been crossed."</p><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/13/business/global/blackberry-disputes-report-on-z10-phone.html">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/12/us-blackberry-sales-idUSBRE93B0JG20130412">BlackBerry to ask regulators to probe report on returns</a> (Reuters)</p><p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/blackberry-hits-back-at-analysts-report-of-customers-returning-z10-smartphones/2013/04/12/c0fe6c0a-a3a1-11e2-82bc-511538ae90a4_story.html">BlackBerry hits back at analyst&#039;s report of customers returning Z10 smartphones</a> (Washington Post)</p><p><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2013/04/12/business-blackberry.html">BlackBerry disputes &#039;misleading&#039; report of smartphone returns</a> (CBC.ca)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=d8mdQ1lq9VeqtZMB9G94w7BLFCYIM&ned=us">243 additional articles.</a></p>