LONDON (Reuters) -Some U.S. biotech companies are considering moving early-stage trials of new medicines outside the United States as worry grows that layoffs and policy changes at the drugs watchdog under the Trump administration may delay regulatory reviews, executives, investors, and consultants told Reuters. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is seen as the global gold standard for drug regulation...

MILAN (Reuters) -Only two manufacturers remain in northern Italy's once thriving industrial district for baby and child products, after years of falling births and competition from abroad forced many of the small-scale family-owned businesses to close. Bergamo province was home to around a dozen factories in the 1970s and 1980s, turning out high chairs, cribs, toys and prams, but the...

(Reuters) - Australia's Insignia Financial ( IOOFF ) said on Wednesday that Bain Capital has pulled its buyout offer due to volatile financial markets, but the money manager added it was still in talks with another suitor, investment manager CC Capital. Private equity firm Bain's proposal valued Insignia at A$3.34 billion ($2.2 billion), the same as CC Capital's raised bid...

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,...