Reuters — Private equity firmAmerican Securities is bidding for California Pizza Kitchen Inc, two sources familiar with the situation said. (Business)

Reuters — BP has tappedHSBC to sell its stake in the Nam Con Son gasproject in Vietnam as it scrambles to hive off $30 billion ofassets to pay for the clean-up of the worst oil spill in U.S.history, three sources said. (Business)

Reuters — ng sale of BP's stake in Viet gas project-sources (Business)

Reuters — Concho Resources Inc is increasing its existing $1.2 billion borrowing base creditfacility to $2 billion to back its $1.65 billion purchase ofMarbob Energy Corp, banking sources looking at the deal toldThomson Reuters LPC on Tuesday. (Business)

Reuters — Monitronics, an alarmmonitoring firm backed by private equity company Abry Partners,is being marketed for sale and two investment banks areadvising it, several sources familiar with the matter said. (Business)

Reuters — Negotiations betweenInfineon and U.S. chipmaker Intel Corp overthe sale of the German chipmaker's wireless business havereached an advanced stage, several people familiar with thematter said. (Business)

Reuters — icked to handle Vietnam, Colombia sales -sources (Business)

Reuters — California Pizza gained 9.6 percent (Adds background on restaurants and deals) (Business)

Reuters — BP is moving forward witha plan to sell its Colombian assets, valued by analysts at $1.5to $2 billion, as part of its $30 billion sell-off programme,three people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. (Business)

Reuters — nyo, Panasonic Elec Works 100 pct units-sources (Business)