S&P Global Ratings, Moody’s and Fitch Ratings, universally recognized as the Big Three, occupy a dominant position in the ...

Italy’s sweeping iGaming reform is coming into focus and larger incumbents stand to gain the most as small players are pushed ...

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 the IndiGo chaos enters Day 8, the crisis has sparked a national debate on market power in Indian aviation. This feature ...

Retail market structure refers to the number of companies that sell similar or identical products in the same geographical area. An oligopoly describes a small group of companies that collude to raise ...

Generative artificial intelligence andand agentic AI could upend the OTAs' core business model more than any other previous ...

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 ...

Mary Hall is a editor for Investopedia's Advisor Insights, in addition to being the editor of several books and doctoral papers. Mary received her bachelor's in English from Kent State University with ...

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 ...

Oligopoly: A market in which there are a limited number of providers providing the same service. Its political counterpart, oligarchy, means rule by a few. Is the cloud computing marketplace becoming ...