June 10 (Reuters) - Insurance broker Brown & Brown ( BRO ) will buy Risk Strategies parent Accession Risk Management in a $9.83 billion deal, the companies announced on Tuesday. The deal adds to a handful of mega transactions in the highly fragmented insurance broker industry in recent years, as top firms look to increase scale and boost their competitive...

06:55 AM EDT, 06/10/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Macquarie is seeking to sell DIG Airgas in a deal that could value the South Korean gas company at up to $3.6 billion, Reuters reported Tuesday, citing sources familiar with the matter. Bidders include KKR (KKR), Brookfield Asset Management ( BAM ) , and Air Liquide, along with infrastructure investors I Squared Capital...

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,...

06:52 AM EDT, 06/10/2025 (MT Newswires) -- The back-up in Canada's jobless rate in May to 7.0%, while the U.S rate held fast at 4.2%, left the gap between the two unemployment rates at a whopping 2.8 ppts, said Bank of Montreal (BMO). That's the widest spread since early 2001 -- aside from one fluke month in the pandemic, noted...