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Morgan Stanley buying E*Trade for about $13 billion

E*Trade has more than 5.2 million client accounts with over $360 billion of retail client assets.

Morgan Stanley is buying online brokerage fire E*Trade for about $13 billion. 

In the all-stock deal announced Thursday, E*Trade shareholders will receive 1.0432 Morgan Stanley shares for each share they own. 

E*Trade has over 5.2 million client accounts with over $360 billion of retail client assets, adding to Morgan Stanley’s existing 3 million client relationships and $2.7 trillion of client assets. 

The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter.  

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