Tesla Motors is readying a service to rapidly swap a car’s battery with a charged pack for added convenience. | (Photo: Tesla Motors)

Oil output is putting the U.S. on pace to surpass Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest producer by 2020. | (Photo: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg)

Billionaire Carl Icahn is urging Dell to offer $14 for each of 1.1 billion of its shares. | (Photo: Sam Hodgson/Bloomberg)

North America reclaims the top spot with the most millionaires as the world’s ultra-rich lead the way in raising global wealth to a record high. | (Photo: Marcos Issa/Bloomberg)

Intelligence-gathering efforts by the U.S. have prevented more than 50 terrorist attacks, NSA Director Keith Alexander said. | (Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP)

Gold fell as the Fed starts a policy meeting that may indicate when it plans on slowing stimulus. | (Photo: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg)

Brazilian protesters held the biggest march in two decades, halting traffic in Sao Paulo, attacking the legislature in Rio de Janeiro and climbing the roof of Congress in Brasilia. | (Photo: Lluis Gene/AFP)

New construction of U.S. homes increased and permits to build single-family houses rose to a five-year high. | (Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg)

President Obama said Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has stayed in his post “longer than he wanted,” a signal the central bank chief will leave when his term expires next year. | (Photo: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

The world’s 200 wealthiest people lost $16 billion this week as consumer confidence in June eased from a six-year high. | Photo: Rupert Murdoch lost $1.7 billion in his second divorce, and could lose as much in his third (Michael Buckner/Getty Images)

Leaders of the Group of Eight nations say that the worst has passed for the global economy. | (Photo: Jewel Samad/AFP)

U.S. stocks pare gains amid concern the Federal Reserve may signal it will scale back monetary stimulus at the conclusion of its next policy meeting. |Stocks Pare Advance on Concern Fed May Scale Back Stimuluswww.bloomberg.comU.S. stocks pared gains amid concern the Federal Reserve may signal it will scale back monetary stimulus at the conclusion of its next policy meeting.

Nuclear utilities have ordered 20 reactors shut, the most since Chernobyl’s aftermath, saddling the industry with a possible $26 billion in costs. | (Photo: Timothy Fadek/Bloomberg)

Netflix rose 6% after agreeing to a multiyear deal with DreamWorks to obtain original programming. | Photo: Original programming based on "Shrek" will be part of the deal (Daniel Acker/Bloomberg)

Competition for 250- to 450-seat airliners will dominate this year's Paris Air Show as the Airbus A350 and Boeing 787 set the stage. | (Photo: Balint Porneczi/Bloomberg)

The U.S. Supreme Court threw out an Arizona law that required evidence of citizenship when people register to vote. | (Photo: Don Emmert/AFP)

BREAKING: Arizona's voter proof-of-citizenship law has been voided as unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Hedge funds cut wagers on a gold rally for the first time in three weeks on mounting speculation central banks will curb record stimulus. | (Photo: Scott Eells/Bloomberg)

After an uproar over a lawmaker’s comment about rape victims, House Republicans are preparing exceptions for a bill that would ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy. | Photo: The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Trent Franks, said that “the incidence of rape resulting in pregnancy is very low.” (Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)

Apple received as many as 5,000 requests for customer information from law enforcement authorities amid widening revelations of the NSA's data collection. | (Photo: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg)