Sentences with phrase «of false marketing»

History has shown that some companies will issue shares, buy up the shares and engage in all sorts of false marketing, and then sell the shares once a peak is hit, raking in large profits but leaving unsuspecting investors reeling.

A theory of potential global warming has been morphed into Climate Change which has proved to be the epitome of a false market.

Not exact matches

Like the person falling from a tall cliff, the fact that they we haven't slammed into any hard limit yet provides a false faith in the magic of the markets to provide a technological alternative.

But as we approach the eighth birthday in March of the second - longest bull market in modern times, recency bias can lull us into a false sense of security, especially given the very good returns of the past three or four years.

The virtual reality market has been loaded with false promises of the «next big thing» for years.

I'd watched CEOs slowly unravel as the false curtains they hid behind were swept away by the harsh realities of competitive markets.

Over the last month, viewers in dozens of local media markets across the country began to hear impassioned warnings from their trusted local anchors about the danger mainstream media outlets and «false news» posed to democracy.

Nevertheless, we are not yet listing either ETF as an «official» trade setup because we first prefer to see at least a bit of broad market stabilization, which would reduce the odds of a false breakout if these ETFs attempt to move to new «swing highs.»

Over the short - term, unfortunately, there is no assurance that investors or analysts will quickly recognize that this market is trading on the basis of false premises about earnings and valuation (though my impression is that those who wake up based on reasoned argument and evidence will be better off than those who wake up based on investment losses).

One risk that your readers have, given the disappointments they have suffered over the past five years, is that they may mistake normal bull market consolidation as having been a false start of a bull market and mistakenly get themselves shaken out of owning a stock.

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.

Stock markets have seen steady gains with little volatility in 2017 — do not let the recent tameness instill a false sense of security as markets can periodically behave like wild beasts.

«The same false assumptions that underestimates stock - market risk, mis - price options, build bad portfolios, and generally misconstrue the financial world are also built into the standard risk software used by many of the world's banks.

In the binary options market there is a lot of garbage websites out there pushing bad information and false hopes.

The use by the respondents of the aforesaid false, misleading and deceptive statements, representations and practices has had, and now has, the capacity and tendency to mislead members of the public into the erroneous and mistaken belief that said statements and representations were and are true and into the investment of substantial sums of money to participate in the respondents» multilevel marketing program and the purchase of substantial quantities of respondents» products by reason of said erroneous and mistaken belief.

The only reasonable conclusion is that U.S. government denials of gold market activity are false.

While interesting and instructive, the case should not provide any false sense of comfort to lenders and distressed debt participants in the burgeoning world of middle - market financing using unitranche structures.

Regulators around the world are taking notice of the virtual currency, concerned that beside the explosion of legitimate investment in digital currencies lurks a great deal of old - fashioned consumer fraud, market manipulation and false advertising.

The belief that manipulation is the be-all-and-end-all of the gold market is based on two false premises.

The best traders could do this by selling and buying in such a way as to create a false impression of the underlying market strength in the minds of other traders.

Are we going to repeat the pattern of late February, meaning that this represents a buying opportuning in the Treasury market, or is this the signal that we are going to finally blow past 3 % following February's false start?

While the social customer ecosystem in the B2C market space is still legions ahead of B2B, it behooves B2B executives to not fall prey to the false sense that the comparative differences means they have to pay little attention.

Do widely used charts of equity and bond market performance inculcate harmfully false beliefs among investors?

We ended up with two wars (one started by him for false reasons), the worst attack ever on our homeland, one of the worst hurricanes ever, over a half million people losing their jobs each month and a plummeting stock market.

I take offense to that portion of your comment because because I am a US Marine and have been one for a long time and have served in combat and none of us remotely said or thought we were going to war in the name of God, so you are not only bearing false witness, you are also condemning military service (Exodus 20 and Matthew 22; Matthew 7:1 - 3) without understanding that many join the military because of the poor job markets.

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.

Christians have a special responsibility to challenge and expose the false theology of the free market.

He's even more scathing about the «sales promotion» and «public relations» aspects of the market, and he shows that governments need to protect consumers from false advertising and to constrain the massive campaigns to «create needs» — the pursuit of which takes away energy and time from other important activities.

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.

However, unwanted or unpleasant odors can deter from that experience and lead to a false and negative impression of a dining establishment or food market.

As a number of brands are accused of making false marketing claims, guidance will be given on legitimate green marketing and labeling.

All of these false solutions create new markets for agricultural biotechnology and «extreme genetic engineering».

The markets can be very volatile, especially in recent times where social media gives varying reports and all kinds of false information, and one picture I have seen was that Mahrez was supposedly spotted buying chicken nuggets in Enfield, which isn't too far from Tottenham or Arsenal...

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.

«They were all cheated, they were all beguiled by all this false advertising, marketing activities that seduce them to buy their formula, believing the testimonials of celebrities so they were always hoping and wishing that they would have healthy babies,» Fernandez adds.

This marketing campaign is a blatant case of false advertising.

was re-reading this, and one quibble is the false dichotomy of «some kind of democratic progress, rather than leaving that to the market».

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has sent cease - and - desist letters to seven companies marketing products with false claims of preventing Zika virus, the mosquito - borne illness that has created a global public health crisis this year.

«Beginning in 2009 and continuing up to the filing of this complaint, the Debi Rose Campaign provided false and misleading documentation to the CFB in an effort to both obfuscate, and conceal, «in kind» campaign contributions, and coordinated campaign goods and services provided by various labor unions for which «fair market value» was neither paid, or accurately reported,» the complaint said.

«It's a lot of underperforming buildings, where basically landlords want to take advantage of market forces and you have a lot of MCI abuses, vacancy bonus abuses, tenant harassment, and you have landlords who are filing a lot of false instruments in city agencies.

Since the markets operate on uncertainties and probabilities, the algorithms presumably responded to the uncertainties and probabilities implied by the false tweet, but Karppi says it's impossible to know the specific genetics of these algorithms.

Meanwhile the influence of neuroscience on education continues to mushroom, thanks to «opportunistic marketing» and promises that can not be kept and even, in one prominent case, the fraudulent use of misleading false - color images of brain scans.

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.

An early warning system based on the Birmingham model can be recommended to policymakers in those regions — particularly when they value avoiding negative market sentiments and damage to international reputation, which might possibly be triggered by false signals of sovereign debt problems.

One false marketing claim — like «agave nectar is healthy», for instance — can inadvertently spur a deluge of agave - based recipes and unwarranted health claims, even from people who should know better like Dr. Weill and Dr. Oz, (both of whom have in the past few years, recanted their love for the sugary nectar).

Slick marketing of products containing aspartame by giants in the food industry — especially marketing that sends the message it's healthy to consume these products — might be giving you a false sense of security.

Don't fall into the trap of believing false advertisement or marketing hype.

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.

The report, which received extensive coverage by the mainstream media, accused the industry of creating false and misleading perceptions and indulging in intentionally deceptive marketing.