News Corporation may not give WSJ.com away free. It could instead bolster its free MarketWatch site and link it to the Fox business news channel. Read more..

By SAUL HANSELL - The New York Times

China ordered banks to set aside larger reserves for the sixth time this year to curb lending and investment after the economy grew at the fastest pace since 1994. Lenders must put aside 12 percent of deposits as reserves starting Aug. 15, up from... Read more..

By BLOOMBERG NEWS - The New York Times

The automaker earned $891 million in the second quarter, compared with a loss of $3.4 billion a year earlier, but its problems in North America persisted. Read more..

By JEREMY W. PETERS - The New York Times

Most Americans have never heard of Jet Airways, the airline Naresh Goyal founded in India 14 years ago. That will change. Read more..

By JOE SHARKEY - The New York Times

I started my firm in New York back in 1990. My work involves a lot of travel, mostly short-hop domestic trips at least once a week. But about five years ago, after nearly three decades of living in this town, I decided to move to Palm Springs, Cal... Read more..

By RICHARD LAERMER - The New York Times

The health care conglomerate announced plans today to eliminate up to 4,800 jobs in a restructuring that it said would save $1.3 billion to $1.6 billion a year. Read more..

By STEPHANIE SAUL - The New York Times

The government of Kazakhstan has raised the possibility of renegotiating one of the country’s largest oil contracts with the Italian company ENI for development of the Kashagan field in the Caspian Sea. Over the weekend, ENI announced cost overrun... Read more..

By JOSHUA YAFFA - The New York Times

The decision could provide some relief for Amgen and Johnson & Johnson, which have already experienced steep drops in sales of the drugs because of concerns that the products might be making cancer worse. Read more..

By ANDREW POLLACK - The New York Times

Rupert Murdoch appears to have enough support from the divided Bancroft family for his News Corporation to buy The Wall Street Journal and the rest of Dow Jones for $5 billion. Read more..

By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA and ANDREW ROSS SORKIN - The New York Times

Telefónica, the European telephone company, raised sales and earnings forecasts for 2007 after second-quarter profit more than doubled on broadband customer growth in Spain and Latin America. Net income rose to 2.57 billion euros ($3.5 billion), o... Read more..

By BLOOMBERG NEWS - The New York Times