MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican lender Banorte on Tuesday reported a 4% bump in its second-quarter net profit, boosted by an expanding loan book. Net profit for the period came up to 14.62 billion pesos ($779.09 million), below the 15.01-billion-peso estimate from analysts polled by LSEG. Net interest income, the difference between what banks earn on loans and dole out in...

July 22 (Reuters) - Intuitive Surgical ( ISRG ) beat Wall Street estimates for second-quarter profit and revenue on Tuesday, driven by growing demand for its surgical robots used in minimally invasive procedures. A steady rise in demand for elective surgeries has contributed to higher procedure volumes for medical device makers such as Intuitive Surgical ( ISRG ) in recent...

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,...

MEXICO CITY, July 22 (Reuters) - Mexican restaurant and cafe chain operator Alsea on Tuesday posted an eightfold leap in its second-quarter net profit, coming to 1.13 billion pesos ($60.22 million). The Mexican multinational, which operates high-profile restaurant chains like Domino's Pizza and Starbucks in Europe and Latin America, reported revenues up around 11% in the April to June period,...