11:02 AM EDT, 08/01/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Amazon's ( AMZN ) Retail growth and profitability continue to impress and improve and drive earnings, Morgan Stanley said in a Friday note. The company's ability to navigate tariff complications were on display in Q2 as Retail revenue came in 2% better than expected, fulfillment and shipping cost per unit continue to improve,...

(Corrects to remove reference to resumption of Novum pumps shipments in paragraph 4) By Kamal Choudhury (Reuters) -Baxter International ( BAX ) slashed its 2025 profit forecast and posted disappointing quarterly earnings on Thursday, as lingering fallout from Hurricane Helene and continued hospital fluid conservation weighed on its medical products business. Shares of the medical products maker tumbled about 23%...

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,...

11:03 AM EDT, 08/01/2025 (MT Newswires) -- BuildDirect.com Technologies ( BDCTF ) , a building materials retailer, on Friday said it raised $7 million in its non-brokered private placement of 6.1-million shares priced at $1.15 each. Proceeds will be used to support BuildDirect's growth strategy and for general working capital purposes. The company's three largest shareholders, Pelecanus Investments, Lyra Growth...