Retargeting Ads Follow Surfers to Other Sites

Ads tailored to online shoppers based on the products they have perused are leaving consumers with an eerie feeling. Read the full story on the New York Times

China Fortifies State Businesses to Fuel Growth

While China owes its rapid growth to private business, it is often the state’s companies that are on the march, in part because of state-bank financing and stimulus spending. Read the full story on the New York Times

Data Augurs Well for Euro Zone in Short Term

Despite good news on confidence and inflation, economists fear that growth may falter later this year because of austerity measures and falling demand for foreign goods in China and the United States. Read the full story on the New York Times

Inside Asia: In China’s Success, a Need for Change

China needs to rely more on household spending, especially as its export prospects are darkening as the West tightens its belt to purge excess debt. Read the full story on the New York Times

Bernanke Manages Expectations for Fed Role

The Fed chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, has made it clear that the Fed cannot simply conjure up a recovery. Read the full story on the New York Times

Platinum Is So Passé. In iTunes Era, the Singles Count.

The Billboard 200 chart is facing new competition in an era when artists can be a hit even if their albums aren’t. Read the full story on the New York Times

Risk-Taking Rises as Oil Rigs in Gulf Drill Deeper

As regulators investigate the causes of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the broader dangers posed by the oil industry’s push into deeper waters have gone largely unscrutinized. Read the full story on the New York Times

Green Column: Cap-and-Trade Is Beginning to Raise Some Concerns

Opponents of offsetting have likened the system to the kind of financial engineering on Wall Street that helped precipitate the recent banking crisis. Read the full story on the New York Times

Iran Shifts Assets Out of Europe Banks

The governor of Iran’s central bank, Mahmoud Bahmani, did not specify the amount or date of the transfers. Read the full story on the New York Times

Can Porsche Shine at Volkswagen?

Volkswagen is poised to buy Porsche, a move that some people say could threaten the smaller carmaker’s high-end individuality. Read the full story on the New York Times

Trichet Cites High Debt as Biggest Threat to Recovery

Permanent reductions in government deficits and public spending are needed to reduce borrowing costs and stimulate private demand, the European Bank president said. Read the full story on the New York Times

Drought in Russia Ripples Beyond the Wheat Fields

Farmers in Russia, many of them public corporations, said that rising prices would more than make up for their yield losses from the drought — and their shares were up, too. Read the full story on the New York Times

New York Rebounds From Slump, Unevenly

The city has weathered the recession better than was feared, but the view is often bleaker outside Manhattan. Read the full story on the New York Times

In India, BlackBerry Gets 2-Month Reprieve on Threat of Ban

The government said it would study and test a proposal by the BlackBerry maker for two months as it tried to settle a dispute over corporate e-mail. Read the full story on the New York Times

Genzyme Rejects Bid From Sanofi As Too Low

The biotechnology company said the offer of $69 a share, disclosed on Sunday, undervalued the company. Read the full story on the New York Times

Awaiting Jobs Data, Market Falls

Traders reacted warily to government reports that personal income rose 0.2 percent and consumer spending climbed 0.4 percent in July. Read the full story on the New York Times

Doctors Seek Way to Treat Muscle Loss

Why muscles wither is captivating more scientists and drug and food companies, let alone aging baby boomers. Read the full story on the New York Times

Intel to Buy A Wireless Division Of Infineon

The deal would give Intel a foothold in the smartphone chip market, a segment of the wireless business that is experiencing strong growth. Read the full story on the New York Times

Japan Plans New Steps To Curb Yen

Analysts said that the new stimulus steps announced by the prime minister and the further easing of monetary policy were too timid. Read the full story on the New York Times

China Asks C.E.O.’s to Work for State

China ran a huge help-wanted advertisement seeking managers for some of its biggest state companies. Read the full story on the New York Times

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