PNC to buy ailing National City for $5.58 billion

Seeded on Fri Oct 24, 2008 2:20 PM EDT (msnbc.com)

PNC said it is acquiring National City for $5.58 billion, in one of the first concrete signs of how banks could use fresh investments from a U.S. government bailout program.

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