With consumers flocking to smaller cars, Detroit’s automakers are taking huge losses on the leases that once fueled the boom in trucks and S.U.V.’s. Read more..

By BILL VLASIC - The New York Times

The Star-Ledger of Newark and a smaller sister paper in Trenton need to eliminate at least 20 percent of their staffs and win concessions from trade unions to stay afloat, their management said. Read more..

By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA - The New York Times

Josef Ackermann, the chief of Deutsche Bank, which has weathered the credit crisis, argues that investment banks could emerge from the current turmoil with a vibrant future. Read more..

By MARK LANDLER - The New York Times

Despite a multiyear backlog of airplane orders at both Airbus and Boeing, aircraft manufacturers are seeing troubling signs among their customers. Read more..

By MICHELINE MAYNARD - The New York Times

The American economy slowed from April to June, while numbers for the last three months of 2007 were revised downward to show a contraction. Read more..

By PETER S. GOODMAN - The New York Times

Lagging mobile phone sales continue to plague Motorola, once a mobile leader, as it readies a plan to spin off the cellphone operations into a separate company. Read more..

By LAURA M. HOLSON - The New York Times

If they only had been more patient investors of ImClone Systems, Martha Stewart and others might have done just fine, and avoided jail time. Read more..

By ANDREW POLLACK - The New York Times

Corporate profits earned in the United States rose much more rapidly from 2005 through 2007 than had been earlier reported, making the subsequent fall seem even more precipitous. Read more..

By FLOYD NORRIS - The New York Times

The share price of the company that owns the venerable New York Stock Exchange has tumbled even more than the stock market, losing 45 percent of its value this year. Read more..

By LOUISE STORY - The New York Times