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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Comerica to buy Sterling for $1.01 bln in stock, (NYSE: CMA), (NASDAQ: SBIB)

Comerica Inc (CMA.N) agreed to buy Sterling Bancshares Inc (SBIB.O) in an all-stock deal valued at about $1.01 billion. The deal values each Sterling share at about $9.94 based on Comerica's Friday close -- a premium of about 29 percent to Sterling stock's close on Friday. As part of the deal, each Sterling common share will get 0.2365 common share of Comerica.

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