The House ethics committee charged Rep. Charles Rangel with 13 counts of breaking House rules, launching disciplinary proceedings that could put one of the Democratic Party's prominent figures on public trial just before voters go to the polls this fall.
Citigroup will pay $75 million to settle regulatory charges that it failed to disclose $40 billion in subprime exposure to investors in the second and third quarters of 2007.
Google said its search engine was "fully blocked" to users in mainland China, the first time that has happened since Google stopped self-censoring its search results in March.
The SEC filed charges against two brothers, accusing them of reaping more than $550 million in undisclosed gains while sitting on corporate boards by trading stock in those companies through hidden entities in foreign jurisdictions.
The Dow industrials fell 30.72 points amid disappointing revenues from utilities and consumer companies. But blue chips remain on track for their best month since July 2009.
India's Reliance ADA Group is in talks with Universal Studios, a unit of General Electric, to build a $1.5 billion integrated theme park and resort in India.
Intel won a key ruling in a suit against the company on behalf of computer buyers, which found no evidence that consumers have been hurt by the company's discounting practices in the market for computer chips.