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,...

ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - TRADING DAY Making sense of the forces driving global markets By Jamie McGeever, Markets Columnist  Tariff ruling and counter-ruling Tariff confusion reigned on Thursday as investors digested a U.S. trade court ruling late Wednesday against most of President Donald Trump's tariffs. They initially cheered the news, but by the time a U.S. appeals court reinstated the...

ORLANDO, Florida, May 29 (Reuters) - TRADING DAY Making sense of the forces driving global markets By Jamie McGeever, Markets Columnist Tariff ruling and counter-ruling Tariff confusion reigned on Thursday as investors digested a U.S. trade court ruling late Wednesday against most of President Donald Trump's tariffs. They initially cheered the news, but by the time a U.S. appeals court...

(Updates with U.S. market close, adds oil and gold settlement, fresh analyst quote) * U.S. appeals court reinstate tariffs * Wall Street stocks finish higher * Dollar loses ground against safe havens * Oil prices settle lower, gold rises By Chibuike Oguh NEW YORK, May 29 (Reuters) - Global stocks rose while the U.S. dollar weakened on Thursday as markets...