Reuters – NEW YORK (Reuters) – Automaker General Motors Co plans to begin courting investors for its initial public offering immediately after the November 2 U.S. midterm congressional elections, two sources familiar with the plans said on Wednesday.

Reuters – DETROIT (Reuters) – Automakers posted their weakest U.S. August sales in 27 years, underscoring uncertainty about the strength of the recovery in the world’s largest economy.

The Canadian Press – NAGS HEAD, N.C. – Hurricane Earl steamed toward the Eastern Seaboard on Wednesday as communities from North Carolina to New England kept a close eye on the forecast, worried that even a slight shift in the storm’s predicted offshore track could put millions of people in the most densely populated part of the country in harm’s way.