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,...

09:58 AM EDT, 05/15/2025 (MT Newswires) -- (Updates with responses from the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in the third paragraph.) The US government plans to lower the capital requirements for banks and could reduce the supplementary leverage ratio in the next few months, the Financial Times reported Thursday, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter. Sources...

09:16 AM EDT, 05/15/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Sellas Life Sciences Group ( SLS ) said Thursday it has dosed the first pediatric patient in the ongoing phase 2 trial of SLS009 in relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia. The study will assess the safety, tolerability and efficacy of SLS009 in combination with venetoclax and azacitidine at doses of 45 and 60 mg,...

09:17 AM EDT, 05/15/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Consumer stocks were mixed premarket Thursday with the Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR Fund ( XLP ) 0.4% higher and the Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR Fund ( XLY ) down 0.6% recently. Dick's Sporting Goods (DKS) has agreed to acquire Foot Locker ( FL ) in a deal that implies an equity...