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) -From Wall Street to Israel and Sweden, U.S. President Donald Trump's new tariffs -- and the global equities sell-off they sparked -- have rapidly scuttled acquisitions and IPOs. The additional U.S. tariffs, which range from 10% to 50%, announced on Wednesday sparked fears of a recession and spiraling trade war, reinforced by China's announcement on Friday of its own...

HONG KONG/SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Some hedge funds say they are offloading all or most of their holdings of stocks as U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war wipes out trillions of dollars of market value and forces them to curtail trading using borrowed cash. In the three trading days following Trump's announcement of broad reciprocal tariffs on almost all countries, stock markets...

* Some hedge funds offload all stocks as selloff widens * Prime brokers say leverage falling, more selling coming * Sales triggered by margin calls rise in South Korea By Summer Zhen and Samuel Shen HONG KONG/SHANGHAI, April 7 (Reuters) - Some hedge funds say they are offloading all or most of their holdings of stocks as U.S. President Donald...