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Wachovia Nabs A.G. Edwards

Posted May 31, 07 12:58 PM CDT in US,  Business 

(Newser) – Wachovia will buy A.G. Edwards for $6.8 billion, forming the nation's number two retail brokerage. Wachovia's $89.50 per share offer for the historic Midwest brokerage—it survived the crash of '29—helps the bank further expand its growing securities arm. The combined company will manage over $1 trillion, second to Merrill Lynch and ahead of Smith Barney.

Wachovia has been on an acquisition binge, buying First Union, Prudential Securities, and Golden West Financial in an attempt to grab small investors, especially the boomers looking to stash their retirement nest eggs. But investors aren't so sure it's the right deal at the right time: Shares of the bank fell on the news.

Source SmartMoney.com

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Wachovia's corporate headquarters in Charlotte, N.C., is shown Tuesday, July 19, 2005. Wachovia, the nation's fourth-largest bank, said Thursday, May 31, 2007, it would acquire A.G. Edwards for $6.8 billion...   (Associated Press)
Cars drive past the Wachovia bank building in Baltimore in this Tuesday Jan. 23, 2007 file photo. Wachovia Bank said Thursday that it was considering a U.S. government request to help transfer $25 million...   (Associated Press)
Wachovia Bank   ((c) Maulleigh)
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