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,...

10:49 AM EDT, 04/07/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Ford Motor ( F ) , General Motors ( GM ) , Stellantis ( STLA ) , and other automakers could be impacted by a potential 1.8 million drop in vehicle sales in North America this year, Reuters reported Monday, citing a forecast from Telemetry. If current tariffs remain in place through 2035,...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Peter Navarro, President Donald Trump's top trade adviser, on Monday dismissed tech-billionaire Elon Musk's push for zero tariffs between the United States and Europe, calling the Tesla CEO a car assembler reliant on parts from other countries. Navarro, widely seen as the architect of Trump's tariff plans, told CNBC Musk had done a good job with his...

April 7 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Monday directed the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States to review the acquisition of U.S. Steel by the buyers to assist me in determining whether further action in this matter may be appropriate. The news gave hope to investors that the Trump administration was considering greenlighting Nippon Steel's ( NISTF...