SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea's Kia Corp ( KIMTF ) said on Wednesday that it aims to sell 1.26 million electric vehicles by 2030, lowering its earlier target of 1.6 million units announced last year. Kia said that it plans to achieve a sales target of 993,000 units of hybrid cars by 2030. Kia also said there was increasing uncertainty over...

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,...

WASHINGTON/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's reciprocal tariffs on dozens of countries took effect on Wednesday, including massive 104% duties on Chinese goods, deepening his global trade war and spurring more widespread selling across financial markets. Trump's punishing tariffs have shaken a global trading order that has persisted for decades, raised fears of recession and wiped trillions of dollars off...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's hopes of an equity capital market revival are weighing heavily on a secondary share trading platform that is sowing discord in the finance sector months before its launch. The Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System (PISCES) will give private company owners opportunity to sell their shares on regulated exchanges in special trading windows, effectively 'going public'...