Antitrust and Trade Regulation laws aim to promote free competition in the marketplace. Agreements or cooperative efforts by two or more entities that affects or restrains competitors is illegal under these laws. The Sherman Act makes illegal any contract, combination, or conspiracy in restraint of trade or commerce and makes monopolies and attempts, combinations, or conspiracies to monopolize illegal. The Clayton Act regulate price discrimination, tying and exclusive dealing contracts, stock acquisition and interlocking directorates.
Olive Branch is an unincorporated community in Alexander County, Illinois, United States. Although it is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 62969. The population of the ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) for ZIP Code 62969 was 879 at the 2000 census. Olive Branch is part of the Cape Girardeau–Jackson, MO-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area.