LONDON (Reuters) -Harvard University's bonds, which are part of the Ivy League school's $8.2 billion debt pile, struggled on Friday amid an increasingly fraught standoff with U.S. President Donald Trump's administration. The university sued the administration over a move on Thursday to revoke its ability to enrol lucrative foreign students. Its bond prices have been falling sharply since March when...

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,...

12:15 PM EDT, 05/23/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Nippon Steel's talks with the US government over its planned acquisition of US Steel (X) are in the final stage, Nikkei Asia reported Friday, citing Nippon Steel President Tadashi Imai. Imai said that they are now waiting for US President Donald Trump's final decision on the deal, according to the report. He expressed...

12:19 PM EDT, 05/23/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Meta Platforms ( META ) was cleared to adopt Facebook and Instagram user posts to train artificial intelligence models after a German consumer rights group failed to win a court injunction to stop the practice, Reuters reported Friday. The court in the western city of Cologne denied the request from Verbraucherzentrale NRW, a...