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,...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Interactive Brokers Group is considering launching a stablecoin for customers, joining a number of large financial firms that are betting big on the digital token boom as the U.S. eases regulations around the crypto industry. The deliberations come at a time when the underlying infrastructure of global financial markets is undergoing a once-in-a-generation transformation due to the...

06:23 AM EDT, 07/28/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Revvity ( RVTY ) reported fiscal Q2 adjusted earnings Monday of $1.18 per share, down from $1.22 a year earlier. Analysts surveyed by FactSet expected $1.14. Revenue for the quarter ended June 29 was $720.3 million, compared with $691.7 million a year earlier. Analysts polled by FactSet expected $710.4 million. For fiscal 2025,...

06:22 AM EDT, 07/28/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Investors welcomed the clarity provided by the United States-European Union trade deal over the weekend, said ING. Whether this remains the final deal remains to be seen, but taken at face value, EU companies can now progress with some planning, wrote the bank in a note. This comes at a time when eurozone...