people note cboe for indexes. -- know cboe for indexes.quity firms play with this data today too. greg: when we think about this, obviously the report and all, the need for change. they know regulators will take a look at this and have questions about them coming together. at the same time, do you think this is the emphasis? it doesn't make sense. sonali: there is a real heat to compete on a global scale when it comes to exchanges. think london stock exchange, nasdaq, both getting rid of some businesses and adding more. there is this huge need to compete. again, just because they are antitrust concern doesn't mean it's a no go. just because they are in talks for it doesn't mean there are other people who may not be on the sidelines looking to enter a deal like this. there is a lot of consolidation that has happened more broadly in the last couple of years. this is about $16 billion. again, monk to brand name heart of the market firms. -- among two brand name, heart of the market firms. they are set on talks of the deal and down 2.7%, you'v

, saying in a statement that it has not had any discussions with cboe whatsoever both of those stocks reversing their earlier moves as cme pops and cboe gives up a 9% gain. >> wow up next, we'll look at robinhood results after the bell the stock up from its debut, but wall street is divided on the trading platform check out yields across the treasuries a bit of an up and down picture, just like we saw with stocks, but it ten-year u.s. treasury hanging on to about 1.27%. we're back in a moment ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ with a bit more thought we can all do our part to keep plastic out of the ocea. do you have a life insurance policy you no longer need? now you can sell your policy, even a term policy, for an immediate cash payment. we thought we had planned carefully for our retirement. but we quickly realized that we needed a way to supplement our income. if you have one hundred thousand dollars or more of life insurance you may qualify to sell your policy. don't cancel or let your policy lapse without finding out what it's worth. visit conventrydirect.com to find out if you policy qualifies. or call t

just a few moment ago, cboe reported to be in a deal with cme would be looking to acquire cboe it's sortalogous to the robinhood discussion we're talking about trading behavior and platforms do you think they would face regulatory pushback over trying to complete an acquisition like this >> all hypothetically, i first heard about this from you while i had my head fphones on listenn to the last segments regulators are looking at every major deal in every major sector we focus a lot on tech anti-trust but the regulators doj, et cetera, have been very clear that they don't only view this as a tech issue or they don't view consolidation only as a tech issue they viewthis across sectors, and financial sectors is certainly part of that >> didn't they push back on the willis deal? didn't we see that fall apart recently absolutely yeah, absolutely correct. >> another industry that's not usually one you hear a lot of public outrage about dan, thanks. appreciate it. >> nvidia is also going to be reporting. it's outpacing the broader semis this year, and its earnings after the bell could keep that

cboe which the cme is already denying.e amazon, more lowe's. looks bad. i own it it's not cooperating with my retirement plan. paypal is rolling over also looks terrible. and then like if you want a bright spot, let me give you a stock in a severe up trend u.s. steel having a big day today. trending higher. looks like it goes up every single day for weeks and weeks unfortunately, that's a sub-8 billion market cap does nobody any good that's where we are, and i don't really have a strong conclusion about what it means but it doesn't look great >> let me ask you about some mega caps. what's a more important thing right now, josh? the fact that amazon hasn't been doing all that well or the fact that apple has been holding up it's been near new highs which would you focus on more if you're trying to figure out where the next major market move is going to be >> over on my second favorite show "the halftime report," joe terranova gave us the best explanation which is that there is a push toward quality which explains the apple,