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,...

07:07 AM EDT, 06/23/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Commercial Metals ( CMC ) reported fiscal Q3 adjusted earnings Monday of $0.74 per diluted share, down from $1.02 a year earlier. Analysts polled by FactSet expected $0.85. Net sales for the quarter ended May 31 were $2.02 billion, down from $2.08 billion a year earlier. Analysts surveyed by FactSet expected $2.05 billion....

07:08 AM EDT, 06/23/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Fair Isaac ( FICO ) will introduce a new scoring model that includes buy now, pay later loans, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing Ethan Dornhelm, vice president of scores and predictive analytics at the company. The report said the new credit scoring model, developed using data from over 500,000 buy...

07:08 AM EDT, 06/23/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Global Net Lease ( GNL ) said Monday that it completed the third and final phase of its multi-tenant portfolio sale, consisting of 12 encumbered properties, to RCG Ventures for gross proceeds of about $313 million. The company said the full portfolio sale generated approximately $1.8 billion in gross proceeds. GNL said it...