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Hearst Corporation said Tuesday that it would close or sell The San Francisco Chronicle unless it could wring concessions from its unions, raising the prospect of San Francisco becoming the largest city in the country to lose its dominant newspaper. Hearst said The Chronicle, which has daily circulation of 339,000, lost more than $50 million in 2008 and will lose more this year. It has had significant losses every year since 2001. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Presents updates on various companies in the United States as of July 20, 2000. Bid offered by Metrocall Inc. for Paging Network Inc.; Termination of the agreement between Reliance Group Holdings Inc. and Leucadia National Corp.; Downsizing at Consolidated Papers Inc.

Presents information on issues surrounding business enterprises in the United States. Employee downsizing of LSI Logic Corp.; Acquisition plan of W.R. Grace & Co. on Imperial Chemical Industries PLC; Closure of fiberboard plants of International Paper Co.

The Boston Globe and its largest union resumed talks at 5 p.m. Tuesday, with lifetime job guarantees for some workers as the only major sticking point remaining, according to people briefed on both sides in the talks. After threatening to close the paper, The New York Times Company, owner of The Globe, has obtained concessions on wages, benefits and job security from the paper's other unions, but the talks with the Boston Newspaper Guild stalled Monday morning. The people briefed on the guild negotiations, who were granted anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly, said the two sides were close to an agreement. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Rocky Mountain News, the oldest newspaper in Colorado, will publish its final edition on Friday, the E. W. Scripps Company said, adding Denver to the long list of American cities with just one daily paper. Scripps said The Rocky, as it is known, lost $16 million in 2008, and no buyer had emerged in the almost three months since the company publicly acknowledged that it wanted to sell the paper. The close comes as a blow to employees and readers, but not a surprise. Scripps executives have said that if they could not find a buyer, they might close the tabloid. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Presents news briefs on business enterprises in the United States as of January 12, 2000. Sale of McKesson Water Products Company to Groupe Danone; Planned merger of Pegasus Communications Corporation and Golden Sky Holdings Inc.; Move of the International Paper Company aimed at cost-cutting.

For Canadians looking to escape winter's premature arrival in many parts of the country by visiting the United States, the equally unexpected movement of the Canadian dollar toward parity with its American counterpart is welcome news. For corporate Canada, however, the development is less inspiring. At Cascades, a producer of cardboard used to make boxes and tissue paper, every cent the Canadian dollar gains shaves 4 million Canadian dollars from its operating earnings. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In retrospect, Kerry Fischman said he should have paid more attention to the nagging concern he felt when the saleswoman from the job search company kept pressing him to sign the contract and send in his credit card number. But it had been just two weeks since he lost his management job in safety and compliance at Georgia Pacific, the paper products company, and the maelstrom of emotions was still fresh. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ECONOMIC DATA Reports will include new-home sales for June (Monday); the Case-Shiller home price index for June and the Conference Board's consumer confidence index for July (Tuesday); durable goods for June and the Federal Reserve beige book (Wednesday); and gross domestic product for the second quarter (Friday). CORPORATE EARNINGS Reports will come from Amgen, Corning, Honeywell International, RadioShack and Verizon Communications (Monday); BP, Deutsche Bank, DreamWorks Animation, Electronic Arts, McGraw-Hill, Office Depot, United States Steel and Viacom (Tuesday); Aetna, Bayer, Coca-Cola Enterprises, ConocoPhillips, Daimler, General Dynamics, Hartford Financial Services, IAC/InterActiveCorp, Jones Apparel, KKR Financial, Lazard, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Qwest Communications, Sanofi-Aventis, SAP, Sprint Nextel, Time Warner, Visa, WellPoint and Wyndham Worldwide (Wednesday); Alcatel-Lucent, AstraZeneca, Avon Products, BASF, Beazer Homes, Cablevision, Cigna, Colgate-Palmolive, Dow Chemical, Eastman Kodak, Exxon Mobil, Goodyear Tire and Rubber, International Paper, Kellogg, MasterCard, MetLife, Motorola, Newell Rubbermaid, NYSE Euronext, Royal Dutch Shell, Siemens, Travelers, Walt Disney and Waste Management (Thursday); and Chevron, The Washington Post Company and Weyerhaeuser (Friday). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Banks struggling to recover from multibillion-dollar losses on real estate are curtailing loans to American businesses, depriving even healthy companies of money for expansion and hiring. Two vital forms of credit used by companies -- commercial and industrial loans from banks, and short-term ''commercial paper'' not backed by collateral -- collectively dropped almost 3 percent over the last year, to $3.27 trillion from $3.36 trillion, according to Federal Reserve data. That is the largest annual decline since the credit tightening that began with the last recession, in 2001. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reflects the author's opinion on plastic bags problem in the U.S. It mentions that, up to 100 billion plastic bags used per year, choke wildlife, create litter and overload dumps in the U.S. The author mentions that the ban on plastic bags will help in environment protection, but its feasibility is questioned. The business community is responding with some stores giving discounts or rewards for shoppers who bring their own bags.

Information about several papers discussed at a symposium sponsored by the organization Asia Pacific-USA Chamber of Commerce on promoting business partnerships between Chinese and American companies is presented. Topics include promotion of trade talks, promotion of Chinese products and services and investment in the small businesses. The symposium featured several renowned people including Stacy Sun, Daniel Qian and Jiangsu TongDa.

Reports on the first day of trading for Google, Inc. stock. How the trading ended with the price 18 percent above where it started; Closing price at the Nasdaq which gave the company a market valuation of more than $27 billion; Worth of the co-founders on paper; How hopes the stock would be purchased for long-term investment were dashed when 22 million shares traded hands.

American Corporate earnings reports, the scorecard of capitalism, will start appearing in April 2004, as companies disclose their first-quarter results. The largest growth rate will come from materials companies like metals, paper and chemicals. They are expected to show earnings growth rate of 75 percent, compared to the first quarter of 2003. Technology earnings are next best. They are expected to show growth of 54 percent, which is pretty much unchanged from the fourth quarter. Consumer discretionary goods companies are expected to see earnings growth of 12 percent in the first quarter, compared with 15 percent growth in the fourth quarter.

Presents news briefs concerning business enterprises in the United States as of May 1999. Agreement of Capital Re Corp. to sell itself to Ace Ltd.; Selling of phone lines to the Citizens Utilities Co. by GTE Corp.; Agreement to buy the paper machine clothing businesses of Geschmay Group of Germany by Albany International Corp.

Presents news briefs pertaining to the developments in business enterprises in the United States. Rejection of a $445.2 million bid by Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based Sports Authority Inc. from Gart Sports Co.; Plans of Akron, Ohio-based Firstmerit Corp. to buy Signal Corp in a stock transaction; Anticipation of 25 plant closures and cost reduction measures by International Paper Co. of Covington, Kentucky.

Presents news briefs relating to business enterprises in the United States, published in August, 1998. Which three European-based factories will be sold by Sara Lee Corp.; Plans by Entergy Corp. to sell some of its businesses; Announcement of the sale of $500 million in assets by the International Paper Company; Which Philadelphia-based hospitals will be sold by Allegheny Health Education and Research Foundation.

Presents news briefs as they relate to business enterprises in the United States, as published on June 19, 1998. Plans of Nova Corporation to acquire PMT Services Incorporated in an exchange of stock; Number of jobs to be eliminated by Vencor Incorporated; International Paper Company's agreement to acquire the Mead Corporation's Zellerbach distribution business.

The article reports that various U.S. companies offer various privileges to their employees in the United States. These privileges include furnished office with Internet access, technical support, printers and other amenities at cheaper rates. Companies like Kall8 offers the services of toll-free-numbers and voicemails at a nominal rate. Services like eFax, online services like domain name at nominal prices are offered by companies like Homestead Technologies.

Reports on the conflict between the owners of two New York film developing labs, Ray Higgs of Company Photo and Raja Sethuraman of Coloredge. Background on the conflict; Difficulties posed by the dispute for New York's commercial and art photographers, including Annie Leibovitz; Case brought by Coloredge against Higgs, accusing him of unethical business practices and a failure to pay invoices; Higgs' background in film development; Description of the work done at film development labs; Higgs' reputation for personalized customer service; Complaints about Higgs from his colleagues; Domination of the business by Indian-Americans.