Currently, some of the most notable oligopolies in the U.S. are in film and television production, recorded music, wireless ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Editor's NoteFinance is difficult. Confusing terms and complex backstories are all tangled together. Sometimes, you need to learn dozens of concepts just to understand a single word. Yet finance is ...

GM, Ford, and Chrysler, who embodied industrial excellence and manufactured much of the equipment that defeated Japan and Germany more than sixty years ago, are reduced to begging the federal ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amazon may hold a large lead over Microsoft and Google but that doesn't mean Amazon is invincible. The market is large enough to allow for the creation of a oligopoly. And that's exactly what we see ...

Figures for public sector software and IT services investments reveal a dwindling share for IT giants, but can the oligopoly be removed in the long term? Although SMEs remain disappointed in their ...