Power lunch starts right now good day welcome to power lunch lets get a check on the markets. The numbers are in the red all the averages are as investors try to digest mixed signals on the u. S. China trade talks but the indexes are off the lows the dow is down. The s p 500 call these numbers pretty flat except for the russell which is off about a half a percent we begin this hour with major deal news as Charles Scwab is in talks to buy Td Ameritrade could we be in for wave of deals that turn the disrupted back into disare you positive tors. For more on what led to the talks, let head to the New York Stock Exchange you have a combination of two big forces going on. First you have the synergy more importantly its about skill. Revenue per customer is dropping because commissions have gone do zero theres other reasons for this as well. The trend, for example, to low cost and a way from higher cost mutual funds and into etfs hurts anyone or collects revenue sharing from funds on their pla