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,...

08:50 AM EDT, 04/11/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Consumer stocks edged higher pre-bell Friday as the Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLP) advanced by 0.4% and the Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLY) was up 0.8% recently. TreeHouse Foods ( THS ) reported preliminary fiscal Q1 adjusted net sales of at least $792 million and adjusted earnings before interest,...

08:51 AM EDT, 04/11/2025 (MT Newswires) -- The Canadian province of Prince Edward Island (PEI) is projecting a record $184 million budget deficit for FY25/26, following a downwardly revised $166 million shortfall in the previous year, noted Bank of Montreal (BMO). That weighs in at 1.7% of gross domestic product, one of the deepest among its provincial peers in Canada,...

08:52 AM EDT, 04/11/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Intapp ( INTA ) said Friday it has agreed to acquire real estate software firm TermSheet, an affiliate of investment firm Platform Ventures. The transaction is expected to close within the next 45 days, the company said. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Intapp ( INTA ) said it also plans...