Wall Street Journal

Christie's London sold $100.4 million of Impressionist and modern art, including a $21.2 million Kandinsky, but the sale lacked the fever-pitch sizzle of similar sales in February and May.

Chrysler said it would recall 2.7 million Jeeps to strengthen the vehicles, reversing course after initially rejecting a regulator's request for the recall after a study found a higher rate of fire after collisions than other SUVs.

The Group of Eight leading industrialized nations agreed to proposals to tackle tax avoidance and evasion that call for new laws to stop businesses from shifting profits across borders and urge greater transparency about company ownership.

The publisher of the hit mobile game "Candy Crush Saga" has hired banks to pursue a U.S. initial public offering, according to people familiar with the move.

Consulting firm Deloitte agreed to pay a $10 million fine and accept a ban from working for New York state financial institutions for a year after an investigation into money-laundering schemes at a U.K.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Housing starts increased 6.8% from April to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 914,000, the Commerce Department said, boosted by a surge in multifamily units.

British prosecutors have filed criminal fraud charges against former UBS and Citigroup trader Tom Hayes for allegedly trying to manipulate benchmark interest rates.

Lloyds Banking Group executives denied that the U.K. government directly sought to influence their decision to pick the Co-operative Bank as a preferred bidder for several hundred branches.

In a sign that China hasn't lost its appetite for iron ore assets despite an economic slowdown, state-controlled mining giant China Minmetals said it is considering a bid for Rio Tinto's $4 billion Canadian iron-ore operations.

Major U.S. airlines improved their passenger-satisfaction scores for the second consecutive year, according to a poll to be released Tuesday, but they remain near the bottom of the poll's benchmark industries.