By Ateev Bhandari July 2 (Reuters) - Tech billionaire Joe Lonsdale said on Wednesday he is investing in a new crypto-focused U.S. bank being launched by Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey that aims to fill the void left by Silicon Valley Bank's collapse. Before a March 2023 liquidity crisis, SVB had long been a major primary banking channel for early-stage technology...

03:17 PM EDT, 07/02/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Merck's ( MRK ) human papillomavirus or HPV vaccine Gardasil remains a key driver for the drugmaker, yet investors are showing limited near-term appetite for the stock ahead of any potential key inflection points, including Gardasil shipments in China, which are likely to return to growth in 2026, UBS said in a Wednesday...

MILAN, July 2 (Reuters) - State-backed Italian bank Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena said its bid for rival Mediobanca would start on July 14 after the country's markets watchdog approved the offer document for investors. Monte dei Paschi also said it had received unconditional approval from Italy's antitrust authority for the deal. Monte dei Paschi emerged from years of...

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,...