Morgan Stanley to Buy E-Trade for $13 Billion



The move will give one of Wall Street’s powerful blue-chip firms control of a major presence in the world of online brokerages.

Morgan Stanley announced on Thursday that it would buy E-Trade, the online discount brokerage, for about $13 billion, in the biggest takeover by a major American lender since the 2008 global financial crisis.

The deal would give Morgan Stanley — long known as one of Wall Street’s most blue-chip names, whose asset management business caters to the wealthy — a big share of the market for online trading, an additional 5.2 million customer accounts and $360 billion in assets |||READ MORE …


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