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Success is brewing for the St. Louis beer maker, which recently unveiled its popular new Bud Light Lime and raised its sales outlook Oct. 3. Another stock driver: Anheuser $52 billion sale to Belgium's InBev, maker of Beck's and Stella Artois beers. InBev's shareholders have approved the deal and Anheuser shareholders vote Nov. 12, but conflicts with unions and troubled European banks may keep the merger from going down smoothly.

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