(Reuters) -The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday is due to take the first steps toward producing new rules on which foreign firms qualify for less stringent investor disclosure requirements, according to a public notice. The public meeting, set for 1 p.m. in Washington, comes a year after a Republican Commissioner Mark Uyeda called for a public comment process...

06:18 AM EDT, 06/04/2025 (MT Newswires) -- US automakers are considering shifting auto parts manufacturing to China in order to gain access to magnetic rare-earth minerals on which Beijing has imposed export restrictions, the Wall Street Journal reported late Tuesday, citing people familiar with the situation. Among ideas being considered are producing EV motors in China or shipping US-made motors...

06:15 AM EDT, 06/04/2025 (MT Newswires) -- The releases of the latest inflation data both from the eurozone and Switzerland both surprised to the downside on Tuesday providing encouragement to market participants looking for further policy easing from the European Central Bank and the Swiss central bank (SNB), sai MUFG. Headline and core inflation in the eurozone slowed to 1.9%...

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,...