HONG KONG (Reuters) -Investors will look for comments from CK Hutchison ( CKHUF ) on the status of its $22.8 billion ports business sale to a consortium led by U.S. investment firm BlackRock ( BLK ) when the Hong Kong conglomerate reports its results on Thursday. The ports-to-telecoms group will present its interim results at 5 p.m. (0900 GMT), offering...

Inspire Veterinary Partners Inc. ( IVP ) shares jumped 64.61% to $1.34 in after-hours trading on Wednesday, following the company’s announcement of an exclusive letter of intent to acquire a New Jersey animal hospital and the release of second-quarter financial results. Check out the current price of IVP stock here.  Q2 Performance Review The after-hours surge came as IVP’s second-quarter results...

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,...

By Bhanvi Satija Aug 14 (Reuters) - More than one in four U.S. adults with diabetes used one of the injectable medicines that target the GLP-1 protein last year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday. The wildly popular and effective GLP-1 drugs Mounjaro from Eli Lilly ( LLY ) and Ozempic from Novo Nordisk are...