08:09 AM EDT, 07/31/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Mastercard ( MA ) reported Q2 adjusted earnings Thursday of $4.15 per diluted share, up from $3.59 a year earlier. Analysts polled by FactSet expected $4.03. Net revenue for quarter ended June 30 was $8.13 billion, up from $6.96 billion a year earlier. Analysts surveyed by FactSet expected $7.93 billion. ...

08:10 AM EDT, 07/31/2025 (MT Newswires) -- PPL Corporation ( PPL ) reported Q2 ongoing earnings Thursday of $0.32 per diluted share, down from $0.38 a year earlier. Analysts surveyed by FactSet expected $0.39. Operating revenue for the quarter ended June 30 was $2.03 billion, up from $1.89 billion a year earlier. Analysts polled by FactSet expected $1.81 billion. PPL...

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) -India's apparel and jewellery exporters are bracing for a drop in orders from their biggest market and could cut jobs after U.S. President Donald Trump announced a 25% tariff on Indian imports starting on Friday, industry executives said. Several garment exporters, who had hoped for a bilateral trade deal and were preparing for a rise in orders...

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,...