TAIPEI, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Taiwan's Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics maker, on Thursday reported a 27% rise in second-quarter profit that beat market forecasts on continued strong demand for artificial intelligence servers. Net profit for the April-June period for Apple's ( AAPL ) top iPhone assembler and Nvidia's ( NVDA ) biggest server maker was T$44.4 billion ($1.48...

LONDON (Reuters) -Chilean miner Antofagasta ( ANFGF ) posted a nearly 60% increase in half-year core earnings on Thursday, on higher production and sales of its copper. Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) for the first six months of the year rose to $2.2 billion from $1.39 billion last year, in line with analysts' consensus expectations. Antofagasta (...

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,...

Aug 14 (Reuters) - British Gas owner Centrica ( CPYYF ) said on Thursday it will be jointly buying National Grid's Grain LNG terminal with U.S.-based infrastructure investor Energy Capital Partners for an enterprise value of about 1.5 billion pounds ($2.04 billion). The Isle of Grain LNG terminal, owned and operated by a National Grid subsidiary, is located on the...