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Norwegian oil company Statoil ASA agreed last month to sell part of its interests in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico to the China National Offshore Oil Corporation, a company spokesman said Thursday.

Boeing Co. is seeking permits to expand its South Carolina plant, one of several being considered for an assembly line for its new 787 wide-body jetliners, a company spokesman said Wednesday.

Gunmen fired on a bus that had just dropped off employees working for U.S. company Freeport at the world's biggest gold mine Wednesday, a company spokesman said.

Bank of America Corp. could eventually shrink its 6,100-branch network by about 10 percent as consumers utilize other methods of banking, a company spokesman said Tuesday.

Boeing Co. may offer a tanker version of its 777 passenger jet in a new bid to win a $35 billion military contract to replace the Air Force's aging fleet of aerial refueling planes, a company spokesman said Wednesday.

Harley-Davidson Inc. is considering closing its main motorcycle assembly facility in Pennsylvania and moving production elsewhere as it aims to lower costs and cope with a sales downturn, a company spokesman said Wednesday.