5 Things to Know Before the Opening Bell 1/14/26
Squawk Pod
CNBC
4.2 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Becky Quick, co-host of Squawk Box, and this is five things you need to know before today's opening bell. |
| 0:08.6 | The parent company of luxury department store, SACS, filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. |
| 0:14.1 | SACS Global says that it's secured about $1.75 billion in financing, and stores would remain open for now. |
| 0:21.5 | It also says that it's bringing in a new CEO to replace Richard Baker. |
| 0:26.3 | Coca-Cola is scrapping plans to sell its Costa coffee chain. |
| 0:29.9 | The Financial Times reporting offers from private equity firms were below expectations. |
| 0:35.4 | Tesla CEO Elon Musk saying that the EV maker will stop selling its full self-driving |
| 0:40.7 | features in a month. In an early morning ex post, Musk said the software will only be available as |
| 0:47.0 | a monthly subscription after February 14th. And Japanese stocks hitting record highs today on |
| 0:53.4 | expectations that the country's popular prime minister could call for a snap election next month. |
| 0:59.0 | Investors believe she would call for policies that stimulate the Japanese economy. |
| 1:04.4 | Finally, reports say that AI chip companies, Cerebra Systems, is in talks to raise about a billion dollars in new funding rounds |
| 1:12.3 | that would value the company at about $22 billion. |
| 1:15.9 | We'll be back later today with Squawk Pod, our daily podcast featuring the best of SquackBox. |
| 1:21.9 | Stay tuned to your feed, wherever you get your podcasts and listen anytime. |
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