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,...

01:13 PM EDT, 06/04/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Mexico's antitrust regulator is expected to renew as soon as Thursday its approval of Nippon Steel's bid to acquire United States Steel ( X ) , Reuters reported Wednesday, citing three people familiar with the matter. (Market Chatter news is derived from conversations with market professionals globally. This information is believed to be...

01:13 PM EDT, 06/04/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Element 29 Resources ( EMTRF ) on Wednesday signed a renewed five-year surface-access agreement with the host community at its flagship Elida Porphyry Copper-Molybdenum-Silver (Cu-Mo-Ag) project in central Peru. This agreement, which runs to the end of April, 2030, secures long-term access to support both current and future exploration activities. Element 29 Resources...

WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY June 4 (Reuters) - Mexico's antitrust watchdog is expected to renew its approval of Nippon Steel's ( NISTF ) fraught $14.9-billion bid for U.S. Steel as soon as Thursday, according to three people familiar with the matter, removing one of the last remaining hurdles to the tie-up. Cofece, as the regulator is known, gave the merger a green...