07:25 AM EDT, 07/14/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Fastenal ( FAST ) reported Q2 net income Monday of $0.29 per diluted share, up from $0.25 a year earlier. Analysts polled by FactSet expected $0.28. Net sales for the quarter ended June 30 was $2.08 billion, up from $1.92 billion a year earlier. Analysts surveyed by FactSet expected $2.07 billion. Shares of...

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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,...

First Community Corp (South Carolina) ( FCCO ): * FIRST COMMUNITY CORPORATION TO EXPAND INTO ATLANTA-SANDY SPRINGS-ROSWELL, GA MSA WITH THE ACQUISITION OF SIGNATURE BANK OF GEORGIA * FIRST COMMUNITY CORP - TO BUY SIGNATURE BANK IN $41.6 MILLION DEAL * FIRST COMMUNITY CORP - DEAL PROJECTED TO INCREASE FCCO'S EPS BY 4.4% IN 2026 Source text: Further company coverage:...