(Reuters) - Tech-billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk made direct yet unsuccessful appeals to U.S. President Donald Trump to reverse tariffs over the past weekend, Washington Post reported on Monday citing two people familiar with the matter. This exchange marks the highest profile disagreement between the President and Musk, the report said. It follows Trump's unveiling of a 10% baseline...

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,...

HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hedge funds tracked by Morgan Stanley globally posted growing losses as markets tumbled last week after U.S. President Donald Trump's announcement of sweeping tariffs, turning year-to-date performance to a 3% decline and driving down their net leverage. Trump launched a historic trade war on Wednesday, and China retaliated with 34% reciprocal tariffs on U.S. imports on Friday,...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese manufacturers of goods from tableware to flooring are flagging profit warnings, scrambling to plan new overseas plants or accelerate offshore projects, while haggling with customers over prices as they reel from President Donald Trump's tariffs. Last week, Trump introduced an additional 34% tariff on Chinese goods as part of steep levies imposed on most U.S. trade...