WESCO International, Inc. ( WCC ) shares fell on Thursday after the company reported first-quarter results. The company reported adjusted earnings per share of $2.21, missing the analyst consensus estimate of $2.32. Quarterly sales of $5.34 billion outpaced the street view of $5.26 billion. In the first quarter, reported net sales declined 0.1% year over year, while organic sales rose...

HONG KONG (Reuters) -Standard Chartered on Friday reported a 10% rise in quarterly profit as strong wealth, markets and global banking businesses boosted revenue, though it also said increased tariffs would likely weigh on credit quality. The Asia-, Africa- and Middle East-focused bank reported pretax profit for the first quarter of $2.1 billion, versus $1.91 billion in the same period...

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) -Investors ramped up their bullish bets on most Asian currencies, a Reuters poll showed on Thursday, as worries about U.S. trade policies under President Donald Trump continued to weaken the dollar. Analysts increased their long positions on the Singapore dollar, the Indian rupee, the Thai baht, and the Philippine peso, according to a fortnightly poll of 10 respondents. They...