Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). Amanda Jackson has expertise in personal finance, investing, and social services ...

In light of recent news that UPS is “doubling down” in a signficant move to beef up its cross-border capabilities, I couldn’t help but don my oligopolistic hat and ponder some related theories. But ...

We consider a theoretical model of a consumer who faces a price that varies with the number of units bought, and who faces random future changes in his demand for the good. an example is cumulative ...

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 ...

Building on Kihlstrom and Mirman (Journal of Economic Theory, 8(3), 361-388, 1974)'s formulation of risk aversion in the case of multidimensional utility functions, we study the effect of risk ...

When Haitham Al-Ghais, the director of market research for the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, was asked about peak oil demand Monday, he smiled broadly and responded quizzically, "what demand?" Even as ...

Being a grumpy old man, I have to start with the complaint that headlines which say “Peak oil demand ‘in sight before the end of the decade’ should include ‘a forecast says.’ Too often headline ...