And my point has never been that people shouldn't buy it — it's that a company shouldn't
make false marketing claims.
As a number of brands are accused of
making false marketing claims, guidance will be given on legitimate green marketing and labeling.
They currently have a pending FDA investigation over claims
they made false marketing claims.
Not exact matches
This is a pattern I call the fakey setup, because prices
make a
false break in one direction and quickly start moving in the opposite direction, so the first move was «fake out» designed to trap most fo the
market on the wrong side.
Specifically, Defendants
made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black
market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially
false and misleading at all relevant times.
You lose and can be
made a slave in the open
market or executed for failing to follow the religious laws of all the other religions, which are all
false religions.
There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the State's role as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and other social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in public policy which «has been
made surreptitiously by administrative action without public discussion and legislative sanction»; two, that the total commercialization of social sectors is «alien even to free
market societies»; and three, that «the ready acceptance of self - financing concept in social sectors alien even to free -
market societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment with the Kerala Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite
false to present the situation as calling for a choice between social development and economic growth.
Nestlé presented misleading reports to shareholders on its
marketing of baby milks and its Chairman, Peter Brabeck - Letmathé,
made demonstrably
false claims in dismissing the concerns raised by GIFA and Baby Milk Action.
After incurring a 12 - count federal indictment for «withholding information and
making false statements» to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) about side effects of its anti-cholesterol drug Triparanol, Merrell had to pay fines and pull it off the
market.
Curtis says that in Britain the makers of such devices have been fined in the past for
making false claims, and the products have been pulled off the
market.
There is also a pending FDA investigation over the claims the company has
made many
false marketing and advertising claims.
I like to be accurate, judicious, and precise with my
marketing approach so I do not
make false promises and mislead the people that put trust in me.
With the founder of the company
making false claims about the product, Phoenix Weight Loss Pill is certainly not the most reliable product in the
market.
When it comes to dating after 40,
marketing yourself is like
marketing anything else — play on the good points but never
make false claims.
Now is that a grand
marketing maneuver aimed at forcing iPad to
make a
false move.
If you have an OBVIOUS
false breakout of an inside bar, then you may just have a good fakey on your hands, assuming it has some confluence and
makes sense in the context of the
market.
By waiting for the
market to
make a
false - break of a trading range, you significantly increase your chances of profiting.
However, not every breakout is equal; some are weaker than others and sometimes the
market makes a
false break before the real breakout occurs.
The downside to using WMA is the resulting average line may be «choppier» than a simple moving average, which could
make it more difficult to discern a
market trend from a fluctuation and send a
false trade signal.
This means that you typically get fewer
false signals and if the trader learns how to structure their trades they can
make a killing in the forex
markets.
In the 4 hour chart below, we can see that a fakey sell signal formed today as the
market made a
false - break above 1.2950 and then quickly reversed.
Without such a process investors often
make damaging decisions based on
false overconfidence or panic due to short - term
market fluctuations.
Gold Futures recently
made a nice spike towards the $ 1200 mark and provided some
false hope for the gold bulls as the
market turned around and gave back almost all of its gains.
The responses weren't adequate for Sterling, however, not just because Grosso used
false equivalencies to established methods of price flexibility and indirectly dismissed Sterling and others» concerns about the industry but because it didn't address all of Sterling's questions, namely how the service is being responsibly implemented, if users are put off when they learn they may be paying more for the same item, about the risk of saturating the mobile gaming
market, and whether or not the company was approached by developers
making larger games for console and PC.
The penalties for
making false statements designed to influence the stock
market are severe, up to $ 495,000 and 10 years in jail.
And kiss goodbye the
false belief that you need a massive
marketing budget to
make it all happen either, because you can do everything on this list without spending a dime.
Major cosmetics companies have recently been hit with
false advertising lawsuits alleging that they misled customers about testing on animals and
marketed skincare products in a way that
made them sound like drugs approved by the FDA.
Failure to warn of the risks involved and poor / inadequate negligent
marketing (to the wrong age demographic, the
making of
false claims, or failing to highlight the complications as much as the benefits) are also reasons patients can get sick or die from taking a drug.
Securities fraud, also known as stock fraud and investment fraud, is a deceptive practice in the stock or commodities
markets that induces investors to
make purchase or sale decisions on the basis of
false information, frequently resulting in losses, in violation of securities laws
The court found those representations to have been
false, and that
making those representations was in contravention of a previous Ontario Securities Commission ruling which prohibited the developer from
marketing the hotel condominium units as a profit -
making investment.
For a claim to be misleading, it must be proven that: (i) a representation (i.e., an advertising or
marketing claim) has been
made, (ii) to the public, (iii) to promote a product or business interest, (iv) that is literally
false or misleading (or with a
false or misleading general impression) and (v) the claim is «material».
These people face hungry wolves like big bank traders, asset managers and funds, who
make the
market in the confusion among
false signals and press media.
Yeon's positive comments about Blockchain and cryptocurrencies come after a period of harsher restrictions on crypto investing and exchanges in South Korea, with the country's ban on anonymous trading of cryptocurrencies and a
false scare of an overall crypto ban
making the
markets dip.
Robert Chmielinski, a Nokia investor, has filed a class action suit in U.S. Federal Court claiming Nokia
made false and misleading comments on its Windows Phones and how the new phones would effect the company's position in the
market.
There are many faces of fraud in the insurance
market - using stolen identities to obtain a new policy - or just as troubling, an account takeover to
make a
false claim or change payee information to receive claim funds.
He also took a look at the site and
marketing material, noting that it «
makes use of affiliate links to spread quickly with potential
false testimonials and reviews» and «uses colorful, exaggerated language.
We also have powerful regulations in place to keep dangerous medical devices off the
market, and the FTC can keep manufacturers from
making false claims in advertising.
The following procedure will be followed when an association brings a complaint that another state or local association has failed or refused to comply with or has otherwise violated any NAR - mandated policy, other than the Core Standards for State and Local Associations, including without limitation the duty imposed by Article I, Section 2 of the Bylaws to «avoid
false, deceptive, or misleading advertising and
marketing practices and shall not knowingly or recklessly
make false or misleading statements about other Member Boards, or Member Boards» programs, products or services.»
These changes are effectively skewing results to the positive side and creating a
false, misleading and inaccurate representation of the Calgary
market that is causing Calgarians to
make financial decisions based on
false MLS data.