06:45 AM EDT, 05/23/2025 (MT Newswires) -- The US Federal Trade Commission said Thursday it has officially dismissed its complaint challenging Microsoft's ( MSFT ) acquisition of Activision Blizzard, following a failed bid to block the deal in federal court. The agency cited a May 7 ruling by the Ninth Circuit, which upheld a lower court's decision denying the FTC's...

07:12 AM EDT, 05/23/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Vermilion Energy ( VET ) on Friday said it has agreed to sell its Saskatchewan and Manitoba assets for $415 million in cash. The assets are producing approximately 10,500 barrels of oil equivalent per day, 86% of which is oil and liquids, and are expected to generate roughly $110 million of annual net...

07:13 AM EDT, 05/23/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Canadian provincial governments had the difficult task of finalizing their annual budgets just as the United States was starting a global trade war, said Scotiabank. Each made different assumptions about the economic and fiscal impacts of the trade war, and many built in contingencies into their fiscal frameworks to buffer against trade war...

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,...