01:40 PM EDT, 05/06/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Consumer stocks were lower Tuesday afternoon, with the Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLP) easing less than 0.1% and the Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLY) shedding 1%. In economic news, Redbook US same-store sales accelerated by 6.9% from a year earlier in the week ended May 3 after a 6.1%...

Marathon Petroleum Corporation ( MPC ) shares are trading higher after the company reported first-quarter results. Total revenues and other income of $31.85 billion topped the consensus of $29.58 billion. Adjusted EPS loss stood at $(0.24), down from $2.58 a year earlier, beating the analyst consensus estimate of $(0.53). Adjusted EBITDA was $2.0 billion for the quarter, compared with $3.3 billion in the prior year quarter. Refining operating costs...

01:46 PM EDT, 05/06/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Price: 79.04, Change: -3.80, Percent Change: -4.59 ...

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,...