LISBON (Reuters) -French banking group BPCE has agreed to buy U.S. private equity fund Lone Star's 75% stake in Novo Banco in a deal that values Portugal's fourth-largest bank at 6.4 billion euros ($7.39 billion), following a wave of consolidation in European banking. Novo Banco was created in 2014 from the collapsed Banco Espirito Santo (BES) after a state bailout,...

04:44 AM EDT, 06/13/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Moderna ( MRNA ) said late Thursday that the US Food and Drug Administration has approved its mRESVIA vaccine to prevent lower respiratory tract disease caused by respiratory syncytial virus in individuals aged 18 to 59 years who are at increased risk for disease. The vaccine was previously approved for adults aged 60...

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,...

June 13 (Reuters) - AstraZeneca ( AZN ) said on Friday it has agreed to a research deal with Chinese drugmaker CSPC Pharmaceuticals worth up to $5.22 billion to focus on AI-enabled initiatives. ...