If Staples' $6.3 billion deal to acquire Office Depot is anything like the Office Depot-OfficeMax merger in 2013, investors could see the companies' shares plummet before the deal is completed, said Scott Tilghman , a senior analyst with B. Riley & Co. Fears that the Federal Trade Commission would not approve the Office Depot-OfficeMax merger pulled down the companies' stocks before feds eventually OK'd the deal, and allowed it to close days later.
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