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Trump's antitrust cops just signaled that big US mergers won't get a free pass

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The DOJ alleged that the $14 billion tie-up of Hewlett Packard and Juniper would substantially lessen competition in the wireless networking market.

Trump has already dropped several hints that his approach to M&A approvals might also be aggressive.

"Merger policy going to be tough," Alden Abbott , Mercatus Center senior research fellow and former FTC general counsel, told Yahoo Finance .

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