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Spanish banks merge in sign of hard economic times ahead

by Associated Press
| September 20, 2020 12:03 AM

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Two of Spain’s biggest banks said Friday they were merging, pushed together by a need to weather tough economic times that likely will cost thousands of jobs.

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