5 Things to Know Before the Opening Bell 8/13/2025
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🗓️ 13 August 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Andrew Ross Sorkin, co-host of Squawk Box, and this is five things to know before today's opening bell. |
| 0:08.6 | The White House saying the Commerce Department still working out the legal details of President Trump's plan to charge 15% export taxes on Nvidia and AMD for sending certain semiconductors to China. |
| 0:20.4 | The White House press secretary is saying that similar arrangements could be applied to other |
| 0:23.8 | companies in the future. |
| 0:25.5 | The Financial Times reports that OpenAICO Sam Altman getting ready to back a company that will |
| 0:30.8 | compete with Elon Musk's Neurrelink. |
| 0:33.0 | The F.T. says the company is called Merge Labs and is raising money at $850 million valuations. |
| 0:40.5 | I should say a valuation. And the FDA, considering revoking its authorization of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for healthy children under the age of five. |
| 0:49.7 | Vaccines from Moderna and Novavax are cleared for more limited populations. |
| 0:57.1 | And shares of Circle closing higher by 1.3% yesterday, that after the company reported, |
| 1:01.8 | a 53% increase in revenue. |
| 1:04.3 | But after the closing bell, the company announced a new stock offering of 10 million shares. |
| 1:08.9 | The stock now under pressure as a result this morning. |
| 1:11.6 | Two million of those shares will be offered by Circle. The remaining eight million will be sold |
| 1:16.5 | by stockholders. In details emerging on the upcoming meeting in Alaska between President Trump |
| 1:22.5 | and Russian President Vladimir Putin, a White House official telling NBC News that the Friday sit down will take place at joint base, Eldemdorf, Richardson in Anchorage. |
| 1:33.6 | So we're going to keep our eyes, of course, on that. |
| 1:36.4 | We're going to be back later today with an all-new SquawkPod, our daily podcast, featuring the best of Squackbox. |
| 1:42.0 | Check it out wherever you get your podcast and listen anytime. |
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