HOUSTON (Reuters) -More than 300 United Steelworkers union (USW) refinery and chemical plants workers meeting in Pittsburgh approved on Thursday proposals for labor negotiations set to begin early in 2026 with energy companies, said Mike Smith, chair of national oil bargaining for the union. The current four-year contract covering 30,000 workers expires shortly after 12 a.m. on Feb. 1, 2026....

11:35 AM EDT, 08/08/2025 (MT Newswires) -- All three major US stock indexes were up in late-morning trading Friday and are poised to secure a winning week. In company news, Trade Desk ( TTD ) reported fiscal Q2 non-GAAP net income late Thursday of $0.41 per diluted share, up from $0.39 a year earlier and in-line with the FactSet consensus...

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,...

(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is preparing for the initial public offerings of mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac later this year, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The plans under discussion could value the companies at roughly $500 billion or more combined, and could fetch $30 billion for the administration, the report said, citing people...