07:42 AM EDT, 06/24/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Major banks like JPMorgan ( JPM ) , Citigroup ( C ) , and Wells Fargo (WFC) are meeting with officials in Republican-led states to defend themselves against claims that they unfairly avoid doing business with gun makers and fossil fuel companies, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with the...

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,...

07:43 AM EDT, 06/24/2025 (MT Newswires) -- iBio (IBIO) said Tuesday that an engineered amylin receptor agonist antibody reduced acute food intake in a mouse model of obesity by 60% in data from a preclinical study. The effect on food intake was monitored over various time points in a side-by-side study with the amylin agonist iBio discovered and a DACRA...

June 24 (Reuters) - Nektar Therapeutics ( NKTR ) said on Tuesday its experimental eczema drug had met the main goal of a mid-stage study. In the 393-patient trial, drug candidate rezpegaldesleukin showed a reduction in the severity of eczema measured with a widely used index. Eczema, also known as atopic dermatitis, is a chronic skin condition that causes inflammation,...