<div><p>US banking giant Wells Fargo reported strong profits for 2009 following its integration of smaller rival Wachovia and repayment of a 25-billion-dollar taxpayer bailout.</p><p>Wells Fargo posted net income of 2.82 billion dollars in the fourth quarter ...

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wells Fargo & Co <WFC.N> swung to a fourth-quarter profit on a pickup in fee income, even as it repaid $25 billion in bailout funds to the U.S. government.</p><p ...

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - Prudential Financial Inc <PRU.N> said on Thursday it completed the planned sale of its minority stake in a retail brokerage to Wells Fargo & Co <WFC.N> for $4.5 billion ...

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - Prudential Financial Inc <PRU.N> said on Wednesday it expects the sale of its minority stake in Wachovia Securities to produce a $1.5 billion after-tax gain.</p><p>Wells Fargo &amp ...