July 8 (Bloomberg) — U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown and France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy believe volatile oil prices have caused grave damage to the world economy and must be addressed urgently, according to an article they wrote for the Wall Street Journal.


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Texas oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens has called off plans to build the world’s biggest wind farm in the Texas Panhandle, the Wall Street Journal said.


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July 8 (Bloomberg) — Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Co. said General Motors Corp.’s engine technology is the “key driver'’ of its bid for the failed U.S. automaker’s European unit, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing a Beijing Automotive document addressed to GM.


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Eighteen months ago, at the Marriott Hotel on West Street in the Financial District, Rupert Murdoch had his first meeting as owner of The Wall Street Journal with the newspaper’s bureau chiefs and senior editors. Over dinner and cocktails, Mr. Murdoch started beating a drum about things he wanted to add to The Wall Street Journal —a snappier front page, an expanded Web site, a sports section and …


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July 7 (Bloomberg) — General Motors Corp. may fire as many as 4,000 managerial and administrative staff by October as it plans to present a “greener'’ image after emerging from bankruptcy, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people briefed on Chief Executive Fritz Henderson’s plans.


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The Justice Department is starting a review of whether the largest U.S. telecommunications carriers engage in anticompetitive behavior, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.


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The U.S. Justice Department has begun looking at big telecom companies such as AT&T Inc and Verizon Communications to try to determine if they have abused their market power, the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition on Monday.


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Wells Fargo & Co will announce an expansion in its securities business, the Wall Street Journal reported on its website.


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AOL tried to squeeze a little over $100 in fees from a customer for upgrades he hadn’t asked for, hadn’t approved, hadn’t used and of which he hadn’t even been notified. Unluckily for AOL, that…


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VietNamNet Bridge - A July 2 story in the leading American business newspaper warns that Vietnam ’s “loose state-directed lending risks pushing Vietnam into a new speculative bubble.” The big worry, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) concludes, is that the State won’t know when to turn off the stimulus.


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