TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato on Wednesday ruled out using the country's U.S. Treasury holdings as a bargaining tool against President Donald Trump's decision to slap tariffs against imports from Japan. We manage our U.S. Treasury holdings from the standpoint of preparing for in case we need to conduct exchange-rate intervention in the future, not from 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,...

* Hegseth is first US defense secretary to visit in decades * Panama wrestles with US concerns about Chinese investment * US handed waterway to Panama in 1999 (Adds Hegseth's tour of the canal, talk to troops, paragraphs 5, 16-17; Chinese embassy comments in paragraphs 23-24) By Phil Stewart PANAMA CITY, April 8 (Reuters) - The United States will take...

(Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he told the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, which has pledged to build new factories in the United States, it would pay a tax of up to 100% if it didn't build its plants in the country. Speaking at a Republican National Congressional Committee event, Trump criticized former president Joe Biden's administration for...