Aug 6 (Reuters) - Prudential Financial ( PRU ) reached a $100 million settlement to resolve U.S. Federal Trade Commission civil charges that its Assurance IQ unit misled consumers into buying healthcare plans that did not provide the promised coverage. A settlement with Assurance, which Prudential shut down last year, was filed on Wednesday in Seattle federal court. Assurance was...

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,...

Overview * DXP Q2 sales rise 11.9% yr/yr to $498.7 mln, meeting analyst expectations * GAAP diluted EPS of $1.43 beats analyst estimates, per LSEG data * Net income for Q2 increases 41.3% yr/yr, beating analyst expectations Outlook * Company plans to close 3-4 more acquisitions in H2 2025 Result Drivers * ORGANIC GROWTH - Sequential organic sales increased by...

Aug 6 (Reuters) - Northrop Grumman-backed Firefly Aerospace priced its upsized U.S. initial public offering at $45 per share on Wednesday, raising $868.3 million, and indicating strong demand for the buzzy space technology startup that put a lander on the moon. Firefly sold about 19.3 million shares priced above its already raised marketed range of $41 and $43 apiece. Previously,...