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,...

(Reuters) - Britain's competition regulator said on Friday it believes that remedies offered by aerospace equipment manufacturer Safran could resolve competition concerns relating to its acquisition of a part of aerospace business Collins. (Reporting by Aby Jose Koilparambil in Bengaluru) ...

ROME (Reuters) - A pool of banks led by Goldman Sachs is ready to give Prada a 2.5-billion-euro ($2.77 billion) financing line to help the Italian fashion group in its acquisition of Capri Holdings ( CPRI )-owned Versace, Italian daily MF reported on Friday. Some 1.5 billion euros would be used for the acquisition, while the remaining 1 billion euros...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Shares of Japanese banks plunged on Friday as U.S. tariffs sparked fears of a slowdown in global growth that could choke off Japan's fragile economy recovery, snuffing out a decades-long effort to return to normal interest rates. The Tokyo index of banking stocks ended down more than 8%, bringing its losses this week to 20%. Shares of Mitsubishi...