12:27 PM EDT, 05/02/2025 (MT Newswires) -- The Lifeco sector is characterized by strong levels of regulatory (and excess capital), low levels of balance sheet leverage and vastly reduced exposure to long-dated guarantee-rich product liabilities, notes National Bank. In the near term, analyst Gabriel Dechaine sees headwinds emerging for the Wealth businesses that generate about 40% of earnings, and has...

WASHINGTON, May 2 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is seeking to axe key parts of NASA's moon program in favor of commercial alternatives and his Mars-focused agenda, targeting an array of established projects in a proposed $6 billion cut to the space agency's overall budget for next year. The skinny - or outline - version of Trump's proposed...

12:28 PM EDT, 05/02/2025 (MT Newswires) -- FMC's (FMC) Q1 results were weighed down by pricing headwinds from cost pass-through and generic competition, which are likely to persist through the rest of H1, RBC Capital Markets said in a note emailed Friday. The firm said that FMC expects new product launches and growth in the plant health segment to drive...

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,...