OMAHA - Charles Schwab and TD Ameritrade were set to publicly roll out a blockbuster brokerage merger that would shake up the investment industry, send both companies’ stocks soaring and fan deep fears of job loss in TD Ameritrade’s home city of Omaha.

Then just hours before the planned announcement, timed to hit just before markets opened Thursday, Nov. 21, Schwab officials noticed something concerning: The sale of TD Ameritrade had not been signed off on by the firm’s biggest individual shareholder, company founder Joe Ricketts.

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