<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz" id="mwAUw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Mercedes-Benz">Mercedes-Benz</a> buys <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler" id="mwAU0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Chrysler">Chrysler</a> for US$40<span id="mwAU4" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>billion and forms <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DaimlerChrysler" id="mwAU8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="DaimlerChrysler">DaimlerChrysler</a> in the largest industrial merger in history.<sup about="#mwt94" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-18"}}' id="cite_ref-18" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./May_7#cite_note-18" id="mwAVA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 18;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAVE">[18]</span></a></sup>
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