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,...

07:40 AM EDT, 04/11/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Verve Therapeutics ( VERV ) said Friday the US Food and Drug Administration granted fast track designation for its experimental VERVE-102 treatment for hyperlipidemia and high lifetime cardiovascular risk to lower low-density lipoprotein cholesterol. The company is testing VERVE-102 in a phase 1b clinical trial. The study's demographic and initial safety and efficacy...

07:39 AM EDT, 04/11/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Ford Motor ( F ) , General Motors ( GM ) , and Stellantis ( STLA ) are facing $41.9 billion in increased costs from the 25% US auto tariffs, according to a report from the Center for Automotive Research or CAR. CAR's report also said US President Donald Trump's tariffs on imported...

07:41 AM EDT, 04/11/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Currency Exchange International ( CURN ) overnight Thursday announced a referral agreement has been entered into with CCE, a Canadian retailer of foreign exchange services, as CXI moves to minimize disruption for stakeholders while it discontinues its Canadian business operations to focus on the US.. As part of the referral agreement, CXI's wholly-owned...