06:13 AM EDT, 05/05/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Loews ( L ) reported Q1 earnings Monday of $1.74 per diluted share, down from $2.05 a year earlier. Revenue for the quarter ended March 31 was $4.49 billion, compared with $4.23 billion a year earlier. Analysts' estimates were not readily available for comparison. ...

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,...

06:07 AM EDT, 05/05/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Michelle Bowman, nominated as the Federal Reserve's top bank regulator, is pushing to review confidential health ratings of large US banks after criticizing last year's results, where most big banks were rated poorly, the Wall Journal said Friday. The report said that Bowman pointed out a mismatch between banks' actual financial condition and...

06:12 AM EDT, 05/05/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Germany is set to get a new Grand Coalition government and a new prime minister in the shape of CDU leader Friedrich Merz, said Societe Generale. Having reached a coalition agreement in early April, including agreement on fiscal stimulus -- corporate tax and electricity price support -- an agreement has now also been...