5 Things to Know Before the Opening Bell 12/26/2025

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🗓️ 26 December 2025

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The 5 things you need to know before the stock market opens today: silver and gold prices are on the move, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he plans to meet with President Trump soon, one lucky lottery player wins Powerball’s second-largest payout ever, self-driving car startup Waymo is pausing robotaxi service in San Francisco, and Snowflake is reportedly in talks to acquire artificial intelligence software developer Observe. 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. Thanks to Steve Liesman and Leslie Picker for sitting in today!

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm CNBC, Steve Leasman. Today I'm with Leslie Picker, and this is five things to know before the opening bell.
0:08.4	Gold and silver hitting new records, gold up more than 70 percent in 2025.
0:12.6	Silver has gained more than 150 percent.
0:14.9	Ukraine's president Zelensky, Vladimir Zelensky, says he plans to meet with President Trump soon as the U.S.
0:20.2	pushes for an end to Russia's war with Ukraine. Zelensky says he plans to meet with President Trump soon as the U.S. pushes for an
0:21.2	end to Russia's war with Ukraine. Zelensky held talks yesterday with White House envoy Steve
0:25.9	Whitkoff and President Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner. A single winning ticket sold for
0:31.8	Powerball's second largest jackpot ever. The ticket for the $1.8 billion prize was purchased at a gas station outside Little Rock.
0:40.5	Arkansas lottery officials say they won who won until at least today since the lottery
0:45.7	claim center was closed for the holidays. And self-driving car startup, startup Waymo,
0:51.3	pausing its robotaxy service again in San Francisco yesterday with rainstorms in the area.
0:57.1	Customer notifications seen by CNBC saying the move was due to flash flood warnings from the National Weather Service.
1:03.4	California pounded by rain over the last several days.
1:06.8	And not a weather thing, but a company, Snowflake, is reportedly in talks to buy AI startup
1:12.4	Observe for about $1 billion.
1:15.4	The information says this would be the company's biggest acquisition to date.
1:19.9	Observe runs a monitoring and analytics platform for software developers and IT departments.
1:27.2	Yeah, but the lottery winner was like almost double that value.
1:30.3	Can you imagine?
1:31.3	Right.
1:32.3	1.8 billion?
1:33.3	I didn't connect the two, but yeah.
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