In fact economically Bitcoin cash is a pointless alt as it comes no where near the transaction speed required to compete as transaction processor see this post 28704478
In the last week the price of Bitcoin cash was pumped twice . The first time was just before an emergency difficulty adjustment and had the effect of pushing the price up so trhat when the greater amount was mined the resulting inflation did not push the price down below the price before the pump. The second weaker attempt was over the last 24 hours and had the effect of defending a lower price . Why they wanted to do this I do not know
