market conduct

The main market conducts business in agricultural produce and traditional wares.

His failure to do so is a serious breach of the expected standards of market conduct.

There is a very busy market conducted twice in a week;Tuesday and Friday.

The implication, according to Rees, is that competition policy in this area should focus on outcomes rather than on market conduct.

The department said the violations turned up during a state "market conduct" inquiry, a routine audit in which random claim samples are examined.

New Jersey last month started a "market conduct" examination of Prudential that tries to assess how the company treats its customers.

With marketing conducted by their continuing education departments, these students see top-up degrees as a backdoor into prestigious local universities.

Oklahoma is the first state to conduct a formal "market conduct examination," visiting a company's offices and reviewing its files to assess sales practices.

The California Department of Insurance began a market conduct examination of long-term care providers within the state, according to a department spokeswoman.

But he said he would also make insider trading and other illegal market conduct a top priority and would enforce the laws "with hobnail boots."

For Littlechild, therefore, the objectives of competition policy should be the promotion of competition, by acting against market conduct designed to inhibit it.

Ken Johnson, a spokesman for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, said the drug industry had a voluntary code of marketing conduct.

In May 2007, Holland made national headlines with her market conduct exam on Humana, a large provider of Medicare supplemental insurance.

But yesterday the markets conducted their daily business amid a flurry of conflicting and somewhat confusing statements from top finance officials in Japan and West Germany.

Investigations of this type, known formally as multistate market conduct exams, have been rare, but they have resulted in fines of millions of dollars for some companies.

The spot is the result of test marketing conducted earlier this year by Ogilvy & Mather that showed increasing identification with Africa on the part of whites.

In the vicinity of Chinatown where sidewalk peddlers, vegetable wholesalers and open-air food markets conduct business with little regard for the law, the quality of life keeps declining.

As Del Boy and Rodney are in the market conducting business as usual, Trigger arrives and asks them if they'll attend the funeral of his grandmother Alice.

Abuse of customer limit orders was at the heart of the investigations into the Nasdaq stock market conducted by the S.E.C. and the Justice Department in the mid-1990's.

Holland's market conduct exam proved widespread misconduct by agents working for Humana, including that consumers were enrolled in Humana products that "they did not understand and did not want".

Larry Graber, the president of Madison National, said yesterday that he had not yet received any formal notice of a market conduct inquiry by the Georgia regulators, but that he would check into it.

The proposals would give the Office of Fair Trading extensive powers to investigate market conduct, along the lines of the powers exercised by DGIV, and to reach conclusions about fines or remedies.

In all three jurisdictions the authorities can, and do, seek binding undertakings from firms in respect of their market conduct, and can order structural remedies (either formally or as a result of negotiations with the firms involved).

In September 2004, the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act (FAIS) expanded the mandate of the FSB to include aspects of market conduct in the banking industry.

In particular, given the ambiguity of economic analysis, policy has to identify rules or presumptions to indicate the boundaries between acceptable and unacceptable market conduct and structure, but it has to offer at least some scope for the parties involved in such cases to argue countervailing efficiency benefits.