MOSCOW, April 9 (Reuters) - Russia's defence ministry said on Wednesday that Ukraine had attempted to attack a compressor station serving the TurkStream pipeline that sends gas from Russia to Turkey via the Black Sea. In a statement, the ministry said that no damage had been caused and the drones had been downed by air defences. (Writing by Felix Light;...

06:47 AM EDT, 04/09/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Affirm (AFRM) and Shopify ( SHOP ) said Wednesday that they are speeding up their global expansion plans, with Shopify ( SHOP ) merchants with early access in Canada now able to offer the Shop Pay Installments service, powered by Affirm. The companies said the service will be available to all Shopify (...

06:46 AM EDT, 04/09/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Emerging market (EM) currencies have correctly sharply lower so far this month triggered by United States President Donald Trump's plans for reciprocal tariffs that have fuelled fears of a sharper slowdown/recession for the global economy, said MUFG. The worst hit EM currencies have been South Africa's ZAR (-7.2% versus the US dollar), Colombia's...

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,...