LONDON (Reuters) -Big European lenders are retaining ambitious performance targets after bumper first-quarter profits this week, but beyond the upbeat headline numbers, bank bosses are contemplating a welter of threats to their future earnings prospects. A global trade war unleashed by U.S. tariffs, the highest in a century, has prompted some economists to raise the odds on recession, with about...

10:53 AM EDT, 04/30/2025 (MT Newswires) -- USA Rare Earth ( USAR ) said Wednesday it signed an agreement to raise $75 million from a new institutional investor through a private investment in public equity. The agreement covers about 8.6 million common shares, pre-funded warrants to purchase about 2.2 million shares, and warrants to purchase an equal number of shares...

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,...

10:54 AM EDT, 04/30/2025 (MT Newswires) -- First Nordic Metals ( FNMCF ) on Wednesday provided positive base-of-till/top-of-bedrock drilling results and a Q2 diamond drill plan at its high-priority Nippas target on its Storjuktan project, located in Vasterbotten County, northern Sweden on the Gold Line belt. Among highlights, in a statement it noted the drilling identified highly anomalous kilometric-scale bedrock...