Market Chatter -- Corporate finance press digest
ju4 wa4i dia4n zo1ng he2 ba4o da4o :\n  LONDON, June 2 (Reuters) - The following corporate\nfinance-related stories involving U.S. and European companies\nwere reported by media on Monday and at the weekend:\n** Four candidates have been short-listed to buy French\nelectrical engineering firm Cegelec, French daily La Tribune\nreported on Monday. The offers from Russian fund Pamplona, the\nQatar Investment Authority, and French construction groups Vinci\n<SGEF.PA> and Eiffage <FOUG.PA> are said to range from 1.6\nbillion euros ($2.48 billion) to 1.7 billion euros, the paper\nsaid, citing a banking source.\n* The Financial Stability Forum is pushing to make it more\nexpensive for investment banks to hold large volumes of complex\nfinancial instruments, such as mortgage-linked securities, aimed\nat avoiding multi-million pound losses such as those incurred by\nUBS <UBSN.VX>, the Financial Times reported.\n* Boutique investment bank Perella Weinberg Partners has\nlanded a key assignment advising France Telecom <FTE.PA> on a\npossible takeover bid for Nordic telephone group TeliaSonera\n<TLSN.ST>, the Wall Street Journal said on Monday, citing people\nfamiliar with the matter.\n** InBev NV <INTB.BR> is close to securing a $50 billion\nfinancing package to enable it to launch a takeover bid for\nAnheuser-Busch Cos Inc <BUD.N>, maker of Budweiser beer, the\nSunday Telegraph reported.\n* Intel <INTC.O>, the world's biggest chipmaker, sees new\nmarkets for its Atom microprocessors worth a total $40 billion\nin two or three years' time, its chief executive told the\nFinancial Times.\n* Private equity firm CVC Capital Partners is the\nfrontrunner in the roughly $3 billion auction of a stake in\nGerman industrial conglomerate Evonik [RUHR.UL], The Wall Street\nJournal reported on Sunday.\n((elena.moya@reuters.com; 44 20 7542 2515; Reuters\nMessaging rm://elena.moya.reuters.com@reuters.net))\n($1=.6461 Euro)\nKeywords: FINANCIAL CHATTER/