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FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2011, file photo, the Morgan Stanley logo is displayed on its Times Square building, in New York. Morgan Stanley is buying online brokerage E-Trade in an all-stock deal valued at about $13 billion. In the all-stock deal announced Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020, E*Trade shareholders will receive 1.0432 Morgan Stanley shares for each share they own.   (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Bank’s $19b buy is biggest since GFC

The US sharemarket has slipped as China announced an interest-rate cut amid the coronavirus crisis and Morgan Stanley spent $19 billion on the biggest banking takeover since the financial crisis.

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BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS - JANUARY 20: Rapper Snoop Dogg courtside before the game between the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers  at TD Garden on January 20, 2020 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)

CommBank backs Afterpay rival

Get ready for a new battle for your buy-now-pay-later business: a cashed-up bank with investors including Snoop Dogg and CommBank is taking on Afterpay.

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