SYDNEY, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Google agreed on Monday to pay a A$55 million ($35.8 million) fine in Australia after the consumer watchdog found it had hurt competition by paying the country's two largest telcos to pre-install its search application on Android phones, excluding rival search engines. The fine extends a bumpy period for the Alphabet-owned internet giant in Australia,...

(Reuters) - Australian no.2 mortgage lender Westpac's first-half profit missed expectations on Monday as margins contracted, and it warned shifting global trade policies were rattling markets and may raise funding costs, knocking its shares down 3%. Geopolitical uncertainty is a key risk that's as high as it has been for a very long time, said Anthony Miller, who took the...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Sunday a 100% tariff on movies produced outside of the United States, saying the U.S. movie industry was dying a very fast death due to the incentives that other countries were offering to draw American filmmakers. This is a concerted effort by other Nations and, therefore, a National Security threat. It is,...

May 4 (Reuters) - Representatives for Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and his companies met officials from U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to seek dismissal of the criminal charges against him in an overseas bribery probe, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter. (Reporting by Bipasha Dey in Bengaluru; Editing by Mrigank Dhaniwala) ...