The phrase "abusive marketing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe marketing practices that are unethical, manipulative, or harmful to consumers.
Example: "The company's use of aggressive tactics and misleading advertisements has led to accusations of abusive marketing."
Alternatives: "exploitative marketing" or "deceptive marketing".
And the commission has begun to reinvigorate its oversight of the mutual fund industry, adopting rules to eliminate late trading and trying to curtail abusive market timing.
"We are going to make sure that funds are priced properly even without any indication that there has been abusive market timing," said Stephen M. Cutler, director of enforcement at the Securities and Exchange Commission.
"The unholy trinity of illegal late trading, abusive market timing and related self-dealing practices that have recently come to light are matters that affect us all," Mr. Cutler asserted.
On Thursday, William H. Donaldson, the S.E.C. chairman, announced that his agency, which has been playing catch-up to Mr. Spitzer since the Canary case came to light, is already at work on developing rules aimed at preventing illegal late trades and abusive market-timing activities.
Far more needs to be done to protect consumers, depositors, and investors against abusive market practices, promote high quality standards, and help ensure the world does not face a crisis of the scope we have seen.
With their abusive market power they buy livestock far below the cost of production.
Universal education, employee rights, governmental offsets to abusive market power and other initiatives targeted the new problems.
State insurance commissioners complained about a nationwide pattern of aggressive, abusive and deceptive marketing practices by sales agents.
"This settlement marks another victory in the long effort to stop financial institutions, law firms and accounting firms from designing and marketing abusive tax shelters, and facilitating those who use them," said Senator Carl Levin, chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which has been investigating tax shelters for nearly a decade.
On the other they claim that abusive child-directed marketing is being effectively and adequately controlled by an industry-sponsored system of self-regulation.
