When companies within the same industry work together to increase their mutual profits instead of exclusively competing with one another, it is known as an oligopoly. Oligopolies are observed ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Somer G. Anderson is CPA, doctor of ...

As markets mature, they trend toward oligopoly or even outright monopoly. There isn’t much difference, because an oligopoly has several members instead of just one. Examples include electric power ...

Businesses don't operate in a bubble -- their sales and profitability are affected by the business environment in which they operate. Many factors affect this environment, from regulation and ...

Behind the scenes of the more obvious oligopolizations we see emerging in today's tech industry — the ones regarding data, computer processing power and consumer attention — is a related but subtler ...

Three firms dominate the target date fund market, constituting an oligopoly. One firm – Vanguard – owns 72% of the passive TDF market, constituting a monopoly. Oligopolies and monopolies are bad. They ...

Advice consultancy Finura Group predicts HUB24 and Netwealth will successfully leverage their large balance sheets to lead an ...

In 2008, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division (“DOJ”) let Delta Air Lines merge with Northwest Airlines. 1 Two years later, in 2010, the DOJ cleared United Airlines’ acquisition of ...