Canada Polls Show Tories Leading: Sparks Bank Merger Talk

Dow Jones Newswires, Monica Gutschi, 10 January 2006As Canada's Conservative Party surges in the polls ahead of the Jan. 23 election, the talk inevitably turns to the possibility of domestic bank mergers."Although the probability remains quite low, it does apear that the possibility of a majority government, and bank mergers with it, is rising," ventured Robert Wessel of National Bank Financial