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It's Tuesday, but we have a merger to announce.

Merger Tuesday, because we took yesterday off.

A total 12.2 billion dollar deal but 8.6 billion is the purchase price.

Great Plains Energy buying Westar Energy, $60 a share cash in stock.

Great Plains provides electricity across the Midwest, headquartered in Kansas City.

Westar from Topeka is a Kansas utility.

Profited Volkswagen's namesake brand down 86% in the first quarter after the emissions cheating

scandal.

May auto sales out tomorrow, deliveries projected to decline for all of the largest names, Ford, General Motors, and

Chrysler, attributable to having one fewer weekend compared with last May on average analysts

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