(Reuters) -Eli Lilly ( LLY ) said on Sunday its drug Zepbound was superior to Novo Nordisk's Wegovy across five weight-loss targets such as reducing waist circumference, citing data from a head-to-head trial. The data is the first head-to-head trial comparing the wildly popular medicines, and gives Lilly more firepower as it seeks to gain wider insurance coverage in an...

May 12 (Reuters) - Eli Lilly ( LLY ) said on Sunday its drug Zepbound was superior to Novo Nordisk's Wegovy across five weight-loss targets such as reducing waist circumference, citing data from a head-to-head trial. The data is the first head-to-head trial comparing the wildly popular medicines, and gives Lilly more firepower as it seeks to gain wider insurance...

May 12 (Reuters) - Brazilian bank BTG Pactual increased first-quarter net income by 16.6% year on year to 3.37 billion reais ($596.5 million), it reported on Monday. Total revenue for the period reached 6,84 billion reais, the lender said in a securities filing, slightly above the 6.819 billion reais mean forecast from analysts polled by LSEG. ($1 = 5.6498 reais)...

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,...