Some of Tuesday’s top business news stories:
The Wall Street Journal
Dow Industrials tumble 588 points to 18-month low amid global market selloff, by Corrie Driebusch
Mobile readers abound; the ads, not so much, by Jack Marshall
The New York Times
Why the stock market is so turbulent, by Neil Irwin
A new way to charge insider trading, by Peter J. Henning
Bloomberg
Here’s what usually happens to markets after the S&P 500 drops 5 percent in a week, by Julie Verhage
Gasoline is both incredibly cheap and absurdly expensive, by Dan Murtaugh
Quartz
The 20-year rise and fall of Microsoft Windows, from 1995 to now, by Mike Murphy
Why Chipotle is going on a 4,000-person, one-day hiring spree, by Max Nisen
Reuters
U.S. inflation probably lower than reported, Fed study says, by Ann Saphir
Apple’s Cook reassures investors on China, stock boomerangs, by Devika Krishna Kumar
News about business journalism:
Smeared WSJ reporter says she will continue to do her job
ProPublica teams up with Beacon to promote workers’ comp coverage
This date in business journalism history:
2011: Bloomberg spends nearly $1 billion to buy legal and tax research company
2010: The life of a freelance reporter, aka getting your life back