5 Things to Know Before the Opening Bell 11/13/2025

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🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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President Trump signs a funding bill that reopens the government after the longest shutdown in history, economic data not collected during the shutdown may never be released, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in January in the President’s challenge to Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, Alibaba is retooling artificial intelligence apps to be more like ChatGPT, and the end of the line for the penny after more than two centuries. Squawk Box is hosted by Joe Kernen, Becky Quick and Andrew Ross Sorkin. Follow Squawk Pod for the best moments, interviews and analysis from our TV show in an audio-first format.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Joe Kernan, co-host of Swackbox. Today, I'm with Becky Quick, and this is
0:07.2	Five Things to Know before today's opening bell. President Trump signing a bill to fund the
0:12.2	government, reopen operations after that 43-day shutdown. And White House Press Secretary Carolyn
0:19.3	Levitt says that economic data that was missed because of the shutdown may never be released.
0:24.6	This includes the October CPI and the Jobs Report.
0:28.6	The Bureau of Labor Statistics couldn't collect the data that goes into those reports.
0:32.6	And the Supreme Court says it's going to hear oral arguments on January 21st in the case challenging President Trump's authority on a fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook.
0:45.3	Alibaba is reportedly preparing to overhaul its flagship AI apps to be more like OpenAIs, ChatGPT, Bloomberg, says that the eventual goal is to make the apps
0:56.5	into fully functioning AI agents.
1:00.5	In the U.S. ending the production of the penny, after more than 230 years, the final coins
1:06.3	were struck at the Mint in Philadelphia, and that's it.
1:10.2	I have to save some for my grandkids.
1:14.0	I have some coins.
1:17.3	Silver ones.
1:17.9	There's just going to be oddities.
1:18.6	Yeah, like $2 bills they used to have things when I was a kid.
1:21.4	Yeah.
1:22.2	We'll be back later today with an all-new Squawk Pod, our daily podcast, featuring the best of Squackbox.
1:28.6	Check it out wherever you get your podcast and listen anytime.

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