Battle to buy Wachovia heats up (BBC News, Friday, 3 October 2008)
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The battle for troubled US bank Wachovia has heated up with two rival suitors now competing for the firm.
Wells Fargo has announced it is set to buy Wachovia for $15.1bn (£8.5bn).
This scuppered an earlier US government-backed rescue deal in which Citigroup would buy Wachovia's banking arm for $2.2bn.