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,...

06:04 AM EDT, 07/22/2025 (MT Newswires) -- JPMorgan Chase ( JPM ) is considering lending against clients' cryptocurrency holdings and could start lending directly against bitcoin, ethereum and other crypto assets next year, the Financial Times reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The banking giant has already taken certain measures to embrace crypto with plans to start lending...

July 22 (Reuters) - Canadian provinces' boycott of U.S. spirits amid a trade dispute with the United States has caused a sharp drop in sales of American imports, as well as other imported and domestic spirits across the nation, a Canadian liquor trade group said on Tuesday. Sales of U.S. spirits in Canada dropped 66.3% between March 5, when provinces...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. gasoline prices could fall below $3 a gallon this summer for the first time in over four years as a stretch of bad weather events dampens fuel demand and a jump in imports fills inventories. Gasoline prices have been in a lull in recent months, a boon for Americans traveling this summer. Consumers endured record prices...