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The LTV Corporation said today that it had agreed to sell its historic, and profitable, aerospace and missile businesses to a new company formed by the Lockheed Corporation and the […]

The Bethlehem Steel Corporation, after reporting a loss of $638.1 million for the fourth quarter, said yesterday that it would cut its work force by 6,500 and stop paying its […]

Entering into one of the largest and longest-duration contracts for natural gas supplies in the United States, the Enron Corporation said today that it had agreed to deliver $3.5 billion […]

The Compaq Computer Corporation said yesterday that its net income in the fourth quarter was about half what it was in the 1990 period. But sales and earnings rose modestly […]

ARCO and the Phillips Petroleum Company reported sharply lower earnings today for the fourth quarter, steeper declines than oil companies with broader international operations like Exxon, Mobil and Texaco have […]

The Compaq Computer Corporation on Monday will introduce the first computers of its Eckhard Pfeiffer era -- two notebook models with several new features and retail prices ranging from $2,900 […]

Texas Instruments Inc. today reported its sixth consecutive quarterly loss, but analysts said cost-cutting moves taken last year by the giant chip maker appeared to be working. The company trimmed […]

Three of the nation's biggest oil companies reported lower earnings today for the fourth quarter, as world crude prices slumped and the recession slowed sales of gasoline and other refined […]

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, one of many insurers under pressure to become more efficient in administration of claims, has awarded the Electronic Data Systems Corporation an $800 […]

Amoco Inc., the nation's fifth-largest energy company, said today that its net income plummeted by 62.8 percent in the fourth quarter. As with other oil companies, lower prices for crude […]

Texaco Inc., the first big oil company to announce fourth-quarter earnings, said yesterday that net income fell 16.5 percent because of lower prices for crude oil and natural gas and […]

Senior creditors sorting through the rubble of companies in bankruptcy proceedings usually fire the chief executive who led them into the mess, but not at the Lomas Financial Corporation. Jess […]

Hurt by weak demand and low prices for natural gas and gasoline and rising costs for environmental regulations, the Chevron Corporation today announced a program to cut costs, including a […]

In its most direct confirmation to date of a huge oilfield discovery in Colombia, the British Petroleum Company said today that it would sharply increase drilling activity this year in […]

A master at civic boosterism, Tom Vandergriff lured the Senators baseball team, now the Texas Rangers, away from Washington in 1971 and coaxed millions of dollars from voters for a […]

Dismayed by low prices for oil and natural gas, many energy companies are concluding that it makes more sense to buy than to drill. This finding -- from an annual […]

In his first months at Tenneco, Michael H. Walsh has practically run a seminar on how to act swiftly to alter the course of an industrial giant in distress. Even […]

'PARENTS are really working with their children,' said Carla Weir, of the Dallas public schools, local sponsors of a program that in various forms has become a growing national movement. […]

IN Robert C. Stempel, the General Motors Corporation has a chief executive with more respect among factory workers than any other commander of the auto giant in modern times. 'He's […]

CAN Russian oil help rescue the Pennzoil Company? The Houston-based company, disparaged by Wall Street and weakened by falling oil and gas profits, said last week that it had struck […]

When the final weekly figures for the year are released on Friday, oil-drilling activity for the United States in 1991 is certain to rank as the slowest of any year […]

By not announcing which of two big-car assembly plants here and in Ypsilanti, Mich., it would close, the General Motors Corporation today put the lives of 3,400 workers here in […]

TRW Inc. started a campaign to improve the credit reports it compiles on 170 million Americans in 1989, after D. Van Skilling, former chief planner of the conglomerate's global businesses, […]

Military suppliers have often stumbled with projects aimed at business customers rather than at the Government, but the story could be different in the small but growing market for systems […]

TRW Inc. agreed to broad changes in its credit-monitoring unit today that are intended to give consumers less costly, faster and more accurate readings on their past use of debt. […]

THE futures market for natural gas and the market for shares of natural gas companies have both just about written off the winter of 1991-92 as another disappointment for the […]

J. I. Case, the faltering maker of farm and construction equipment, will eliminate 4,000 jobs by the end of next year, paring its work force to about 21,000, its parent, […]

Four private gifts amounting to $85 million were announced today by the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center here, including three donations of $25 million or more each that are […]

The El Paso Electric Company, a power supplier severely weakened by bad real estate investments and a costly stake in an Arizona nuclear power project, said today that it could […]

It has been a case of so far, so good, for the Cyrix Corporation in its legal battle to weaken the Intel Corporation's dominance of math coprocessors, a pricey chip […]

Tenneco Inc. said today that it had agreed to sell its natural-gas liquids operations and some related assets to the Enron Corporation for $632 million. Natural-gas liquids, which include ethane, […]

The former president of the United States Olympic Committee, Robert H. Helmick, repeatedly violated committee rules by participating in business deals that were not properly disclosed and profiting from them, […]

When Darwin E. Smith said earlier this month that he would step down Dec. 19 after 20 years as chief executive of the Kimberly-Clark Corporation, he also declared that the […]

A Federal appeals court has bolstered the rights of lenders in bankruptcy cases by preventing delinquent borrowers from adopting the increasingly common tactic of keeping control of indebted properties by […]

Texas Instruments Inc. and Hitachi Ltd. said today that they would combine efforts over the next 10 years to design advanced computer memory chips. The companies said they would form [...]

In another sign of the growing global ambitions of Pepsico Inc., the company's international snack foods division said yesterday that James H. O'Neal would be assigned to the new post […]

ARCO Inc. said today that it took a $340 million charge against earnings to pare 2,100 workers from its payroll and other actions, and that as a result it reported […]

In a board-room revolt against a computer industry legend, directors of the Compaq Computer Corporation have ousted the company's president and chief executive, Joseph (Rod) Canion. The dismissal came late […]

Citing sharply higher profits in global refining that overcame sluggish domestic demand for its products, the Exxon Corporation today reported a 3.7 percent gain in its third-quarter profits. Net income […]

The Chevron Corporation, the nation's fourth-largest oil company, said yesterday that its net income declined 22.3 percent in the third quarter, extending the pattern of lower profits in the period […]

The Compaq Computer Corporation, besieged by price-cutting rivals and under pressure from lagging sales, said yesterday that it would slash its work force by 1,400, or 12 percent, and reported […]

Several big oil companies reported lower earnings yesterday, as reduced prices for crude oil and natural gas and slack demand for chemical products pared profits. Companies with operations mainly in […]

The Amoco Corporation said yesterday that its earnings fell 45.3 percent in the third quarter. It was the first report in what analysts said would be a two-week stream of […]

Most American oil giants, frustrated by drilling limits set by Congress, dismal natural gas prices and the waning promise of major domestic discoveries, are spending less these days to develop […]

When the Electronic Data Systems Corporation acquired the Enron Corporation's extensive computing staff and equipment in 1989, it essentially guaranteed that it could handle these operations better. It also promised […]

Reflecting broad and deepening problems in the global market for semiconductors used in computers, Texas Instruments Inc. said today that it lost $113 million in the third quarter. It was […]

A man smashed a pickup truck into a busy restaurant at lunchtime here today, stepped out of the cab, shot 22 people dead and wounded at least 20 others. As […]

Gene H. Bishop, a powerful Texas banker before turmoil in oil and real estate ruined the region's economy and financial institutions in the late 1980's, was named chairman and chief […]

The Convex Computer Corporation will report a big quarterly loss in a few days, and analysts say the company will probably complete 1991 with its first yearly loss since it […]

Texas Instruments Inc. said today that more employees had accepted a voluntary retirement program than expected and that the higher costs would result in a special charge of $55 million […]