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Market Chatter -- Corporate finance press digest

Mon Sep 8, 2008 3:12am EDT

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LONDON, Sept 8 (Reuters) - The following corporate finance-related stories involving European, U.S. and Asian companies were reported by media on Monday:

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* U.S. cigarette maker Altria Group Inc (MO.N) has agreed to buy Skoal and Copenhagen smokeless tobacco maker UST Inc UST.N for about $10.3 billion, the Wall Street Journal said [ID:nWNAB9818].

* A stake in India's Firstsource (FISO.BO), a leading business-process outsourcing company, has been put up for sale, the Financial Times reported [ID:nHKG213103].

* Wyle Laboratories is in the final stages of a sale process worth about $600 million that could be completed by the end of this month, the Financial Times reported, citing people close to the process.

For Deals of the day, click on [ID:nSP328956]

(Reporting by Douwe Miedema; Editing by Quentin Bryar)

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