NEW YORK (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Thursday voided the 2017 fraud conviction of a former HSBC executive who spent two years in prison for front-running a British oil and gas exploration company's $3.5 billion currency trade. In a 3-0 decision, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said Mark Johnson's conviction was tainted because the Supreme...

(Reuters) -PepsiCo is planning to highlight what will no longer be in its potato or tortilla chips - artificial colors or flavors - when it re-launches its Lay's and Tostitos brands later this year, executives said on Thursday.  The overhaul for the company's top-selling snack brands comes as U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pushes Americans to eat whole...

* Mark Johnson led an HSBC foreign exchange desk * Johnson accused of front-running' Cairn Energy trade * Fraud theories underlying conviction invalid or weak * US Attorney's office in Brooklyn declined to comment By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK, July 17 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Thursday voided the 2017 fraud conviction of a former HSBC executive who...

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,...