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Morgan Stanley to buy E-Trade for $13 billion

by AP Business Writers
| February 21, 2020 12:05 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — Morgan Stanley, the investment bank for millionaires, big business and megamergers, is buying E-Trade Financial, the online brokerage that encouraged waves of regular investors to get into the market with ads featuring its talking spokesbaby.

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