Today we focus on market participants, IPOs, the rise of retail and automation. We also explain some of the core concepts about how markets work. As summer starts, we thought it was a perfect time to ...

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 ...

My most recent article failed to fully explain my idea of the contribution of financial futures to the evolution of financial market structure. It is easy to misinterpret that article as an argument ...

Joseph Nguyen is a contributing author at Investopedia and a research analyst with experience at a securities brokerage firm. Thomas J Catalano is a CFP and Registered Investment Adviser with the ...