Wachovia to buy A.G. Edwards in $6.8 billion deal
By The News-Gazette
Tuesday June 5, 2007
CHAMPAIGN – It will be at least October before Wachovia Securities signs go up at A.G. Edwards offices across the nation, a Wachovia Securities spokesman said Monday.
Under an agreement announced Thursday, Wachovia Corp. plans to acquire A.G. Edwards for $6.8 billion and combine it with Wachovia Securities to form the nation's second-largest retail brokerage firm. Only Merrill Lynch & Co. would be bigger, in terms of financial advisers.
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