(Reuters) -Japanese equity funds logged their largest weekly outflows in nearly 18 years in the week to May 28, as investors either booked profits following a rally fueled by the then-easing U.S.-China trade tensions or turned cautious on earnings potential. According to LSEG Lipper data, Japanese equity funds recorded net outflows of $7.49 billion, marking the largest weekly withdrawal since...

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,...

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain's Thames Water said U.S. private equity firm KKR had pulled out from a plan to invest billions of pounds into the embattled utility, putting its fight to avoid financial collapse back into focus. The company, which is Britain's biggest water supplier with 16 million customers, has been struggling with huge debts, and was banking on KKR investing...

HANOI (Reuters) -Vietnamese firms will sign memorandums of understanding with U.S. partners to buy $2 billion worth of American farm produce, the agriculture ministry said on Tuesday, part of efforts to seal a new trade deal between the two countries. Vietnam has been slapped with 46% reciprocal tariffs by the Trump administration. Though they have been paused until July, if...