KIRUNA, Sweden (Reuters) -Two small spaceports in the far north of Sweden and Norway are racing to launch the first satellites from mainland Europe into space as the region looks to reduce its reliance on U.S. players.     U.S. President Donald Trump's America First policies and the war in Ukraine have prompted Europe to ramp up its independent capabilities...

LONDON (Reuters) -European investors are bracing for a pivotal second-quarter earnings season, which could offer the first meaningful insight into how companies are navigating a new era of trade volatility and, crucially, how resilient their share prices remain. Markets staged a textbook V-shaped recovery to hit record highs after April's tariff-driven selloff after U.S. President Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs,...

LONDON, July 10 (Reuters) - British ad group WPP ( WPP ) named board member Cindy Rose as its new chief executive on Thursday, handing the top job to a senior executive from Microsoft ( MSFT ) a day after it downgraded profit forecasts. Rose has been on the board since 2019 and will take over from outgoing CEO Mark...

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,...