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,...

Lucid Group, Inc. ( LCID ) shares fell on Wednesday after the electric vehicle maker reported disappointing second-quarter results, with revenue of $259.4 million, missing analyst estimates of $296.24 million. The Newark, California-based company also posted a larger-than-expected adjusted loss of 24 cents per share, compared to the forecasted loss of 21 cents. Despite strong vehicle performance and ramped-up production...

Financial giants have made a conspicuous bearish move on Vertex Pharmaceuticals ( VRTX ). Our analysis of options history for Vertex Pharmaceuticals ( VRTX ) revealed 55 unusual trades. Delving into the details, we found 29% of traders were bullish, while 54% showed bearish tendencies. Out of all the trades we spotted, 27 were puts, with a value of $2,868,157,...

BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva told Reuters on Wednesday of his plans for a new national policy treating strategic minerals as a matter of national sovereignty in order to avoid exporting minerals without adding value locally. We won't allow what happened in the last century to happen again, where Brazil exports raw minerals and then buys...