5 Things to Know Ahead of the Opening Bell 2/23/26
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🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Andrew Ross Sorkin, co-host of Squawk Box. Today, I'm with Joe Kernan, and this is |
| 0:06.6 | five things to know before today's opening bell. U.S. Customs says it's going to stop |
| 0:11.7 | collecting President Trump's reciprocal tariffs early this morning, and the Supreme Court ruled that |
| 0:17.4 | those tariffs are illegal. In response, the President now says he's going to impose a 15% global tax, and he can do that for the next 150 days before having to look for |
| 0:27.4 | other ways to implement tariffs. Meantime, the TSA says that pre-check airport screening lanes |
| 0:33.8 | are operational in the United States. That's a change after the Department of Homeland Security had said early yesterday that faster security checkpoints were paused amid the ongoing |
| 0:42.9 | partial government shutdown. And Axios is reporting that Defense Secretary Pete Hegsef will meet |
| 0:47.7 | with Anthropics CEO Dario Amode at the Pentagon tomorrow. Source is telling Axios that meeting |
| 0:53.8 | likely to focus on the terms for the military's use |
| 0:56.9 | of Anthropics clawed AI, saying it will likely not be a friendly sit-down. |
| 1:02.6 | And Goldman Sachs raising its end-of-year projections for the price of Brent crude and WTI by $6 a barrel |
| 1:09.2 | in the fourth quarter of this year, the bank sees Brent at $60. And WTI by $6 a barrel in the fourth quarter of this year. |
| 1:19.4 | The bank sees Brent at $60 and WTI at $56, but the forecast assumes no supply disruptions related to Iran. |
| 1:21.7 | And dark comedy, one battle after another, taking high honors at Great Britain's top movie awards. It won for best film and |
| 1:30.4 | best director. The BAFTAs are seen as a good indicator of what could happen at the Academy |
| 1:35.7 | Awards next month. I want to say this meeting with Dario and Pete Hexeth is a super important |
| 1:41.4 | meeting because the Pentagon is currently using Claude AI. |
| 1:47.0 | And one of the things that's so interesting about Anthropic, which is different than Open AI |
| 1:52.0 | and some of the other models, Joe, is just this idea that they wanted to preserve certain rights |
| 1:59.0 | over how their models are used, that even though they |
| 2:02.7 | have a contract with the Pentagon, they can't be used in certain ways. |
| 2:06.5 | If in fact they continue down the path of trying to either create a board or some kind |
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