By Arathy Somasekhar HOUSTON, July 19 (Reuters) - About 150,000 barrels per day (bpd) of Canadian crude were exported from the U.S. Gulf Coast in June, slightly lower than average, despite the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline (TMX), which pulled some barrels west to Vancouver, shipping tracking data showed. The $24.84 billion (C$34 billion) expansion started operations in May,...

July 19 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 0930 GMT on Friday: ** Britain's Hargreaves Lansdown extended the deadline by which a consortium led by CVC Capital would need to make a firm offer for the British investment platform to Aug. 5. ** Britain's competition regulator said it has cleared Nationwide Building Society's proposed...

BERLIN, July 19 (Reuters) - Critical infrastructure in Germany has been affected by a global I.T. outage that was triggered by a problem at cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike ( CRWD ) , an interior ministry spokesperson said on Friday. There is currently no indication of a cyber attack, the spokesperson added. The German government defines critical infrastructure to encompass areas such...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Retailers Walmart, Target ( TGT ) and Shein kicked off back-to-school sales early to stop Amazon.com's ( AMZN ) Prime Day event from siphoning U.S. sales of backpacks and laptops, helping advance the peak ocean shipping season by two months and boost already-high freight rates. It looks like this year, July is in fact the peak...