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The EU's Digital Markets Act and several US antitrust lawsuits have begun to treat the "coordination effects of algorithmic pricing tools" as a subject of scrutiny, on the grounds that the traditional antitrust framework can hardly prove the existence of an "agreement", but the market outcome may be no different from a cartel.
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10/14/2026
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Valid until: 1/12/2027
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