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) -A U.S. judge on Friday largely rejected a request by BlackRock to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Texas and 12 other Republican-led states that said the company and other large asset managers violated antitrust law through climate activism that reduced coal production and boosted energy prices. U.S. District Judge Jeremy Kernodle in Tyler, Texas agreed to dismiss just three...

* Proposed rule could increase RIN and fuel prices, study finds * US net short on yellow grease, tallow, and canola oil * ADM, Bunge, Cargill may see negative effects from global operations By Stephanie Kelly and Jarrett Renshaw NEW YORK, Aug 1 (Reuters) - The Trump administration's push to discourage the use of foreign feedstocks in domestic biodiesel could...

Allogene Therapeutics, Inc ( ALLO ). on Friday said it has selected standard fludarabine and cyclophosphamide (FC) as the lymphodepletion regimen to be used in its ALPHA3 study evaluating cemacabtagene ansegedleucel (cema-cel) in first-line consolidation for large B-cell lymphoma (LBCL). The arm testing FC plus ALLO-647, an anti-CD52 mAb (FCA), is now closed to further enrollment. ALLO shares are lagging the...