What Types of Price-Fixing Agreements Are Considered Horizontal Price-Fixing

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What types of price-fixing agreements are considered horizontal price-fixing?

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Definitions:

Stock Split

A decision by a company to increase the number of its outstanding shares by issuing more shares to current shareholders.

Common Stock

An equity ownership interest in a corporation, typically entitling the owner to vote on corporate governance matters and receive dividends.

Earnings Per Share

A company's profit divided by the number of outstanding shares of its common stock, indicating the company's profitability.

Outstanding

An adjective describing something that is still in progress, unsettled, not yet resolved, or in the case of financials, amounts owed that have not yet been paid.