Wells Fargo’s Wachovia Buyout Gets U.S. Antitrust Clearance

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Wells Fargo & Co.’s $11.7 billion buyout of Wachovia Corp. won U.S. antitrust clearance, in a transaction that will create the largest U.S. bank by branches.

The antitrust clearance was disclosed in a list of terminated merger reviews published by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

This article was published Friday, October 10, 2008.

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