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By Yantoultra Ngui SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Singapore's United Overseas Bank, or UOB, will resume giving 2025 guidance when the impact of U.S. tariffs becomes clearer, it said on Wednesday after posting a stable first-quarter net profit that missed expectations. Macroeconomic uncertainties from the U.S. tariffs have triggered significant market volatility and disruptions in global trade, said UOB Deputy Chairman and CEO...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - A Brazilian judge on Tuesday blocked state-run bank BRB from signing the definitive contract to buy assets from fellow lender Banco Master, according to a court order seen by Reuters. In his order, judge Carlos Fernando Fecchio dos Santos accepted the request made by prosecutors, who asked for the block as they argued BRB would need previous...

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,...