(Reuters) -Japanese investors sharply ramped up their overseas equity purchases in April, shifting away from bonds as they rebalanced portfolios amid global market volatility triggered by U.S. tariffs, and capitalizing on discounted international shares. Japanese investors bought a net 3.27 trillion yen ($22.37 billion) in overseas stocks - the highest monthly total since at least 2005 - while pulling 1.08...

MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's second-biggest bank UniCredit lifted its 2025 outlook on Monday after posting a surprise increase in quarterly profit but remained resolute that it would not do deals at any cost. CEO Andrea Orcel has placed UniCredit at the heart of the consolidation wave sweeping Italian finance, with a 14 billion euro ($16 billion) all-share offer for rival...

03:24 AM EDT, 05/12/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Revathi Advaithi, Director, Chief Executive Officer, on May 07, 2025, sold 132,000 shares in Flex (FLEX) for $5,034,765. Following the Form 4 filing with the SEC, Advaithi has control over a total of 1,100,473 ordinary shares of the company, with 1,100,473 shares held directly. SEC Filing: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/866374/000162828025024414/xslF345X05/wk-form4_1746837410.xml ...

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,...