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,...

BEIJING (Reuters) -China, the world's largest soybean buyer, has resumed Brazilian soybean shipments from five firms previously suspended over phytosanitary concerns, according to a source familiar with the matter and Chinese customs data. Brazil is the world's largest soybean producer and exporter, and the top supplier to China as the trade war drives Beijing to diversify away from the United...

(Reuters) -Merck Animal Health, a unit of Merck, said on Thursday it would invest $895 million to expand its manufacturing facility in De Soto, Kansas. The capital expansion includes an investment of $860 million in the site's existing manufacturing facility and a further $35 million in its research and development laboratories, Merck Animal Health said. Commercial manufacturing is expected to...

07:24 AM EDT, 05/08/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Brookfield Wealth Solutions ( BNT ) reported Q1 distributable earnings Thursday of $0.98 per class A share, up from $0.77 a year earlier. Revenue for the quarter ended March 31 was $2.62 billion, compared with $2.49 billion a year earlier. No analyst estimates were available for comparison. Shares of the company rose 2.2%...