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,...

(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is advocating for increased coal production in the United States, however, reviving decommissioned coal plants to meet this goal makes no economic sense, the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) said on Thursday. Trump's executive orders could potentially delay the closure of coal-fired power plants and encourage the restart of 102 recently...

SANTOS, April 10 (Reuters) - The Brazilian Agriculture Ministry sent documentation last Monday relative to soybean cargoes halted by China over plant health issues in January, an official said on Thursday. Hugo Caruso, vegetable products inspections director at the ministry, told Reuters on Thursday that the ministry had been gathering information on the origin of the grains from the concerned...

MILAN (Reuters) -Prada struck a $1.38 billion deal to buy smaller rival Versace from Capri Holdings on Thursday in a move that unites two of the biggest names in Italian fashion and offers the prospect of enhanced revenues. Prada is seeking to expand, having defied a slowdown in luxury demand, while Versace has been operating at a loss in the...