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5 Things to Know Before the Opening Bell 8/18/2025

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CNBC

Investing, Business, News, Business News

4.2543 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

The 5 things you need to know before the stock market opens today: Tesla is reportedly offering discounts to car leasing companies in the UK, Novo Nordisk received FDA approval for a liver disease treatment, Samsung’s phone shipments to the U.S. surged in the second quarter, tech company supplier Foxconn will operate a U.S. factory as a joint venture with Softbank, OpenAI, and Oracle, and the Warner Brothers horror film “Weapons” remained number one at the weekend box office. 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 Becky Quick, co-host of Squawk Box with Andrew Ross Sorkin and Joe Kernan,

0:06.3

and this is five things to know before the opening bell.

0:09.7

Tesla is reportedly offering up to 40% discounts to car leasing companies in the UK

0:14.8

in an attempt to get more of its cars to motorists.

0:18.4

The London Times says that the lower Tesla prices stem from a lack of storage

0:22.6

space for the cars in the UK. Shares of Novo Nordisk are trading higher after the company's

0:28.7

obesity drug Wagovi received accelerated approval from the FDA to treat a serious liver disease.

0:35.5

Data shows that Samsung is taking market share from Apple in the United

0:39.0

States. Smartphone market research firm canalesis shows that shipments from Samsung to the

0:45.2

U.S. surged in the second quarter. The company's market share rising from 23% all the way to 31%,

0:51.7

while Apple's market share declined from 56% to 49%.

0:56.0

Foxcon is going to be operating a U.S. factory owned by SoftBank in what could be the first manufacturing site in the Stargate venture.

1:04.0

The AI server production plant is part of a joint venture with SoftBank, Open AI and Oracle.

1:10.0

SoftBank is buying the former GM electric vehicle plant from another company that we've known about Foxcon

1:17.1

and is going to be supplying manufacturing gear.

1:19.8

Foxcon is going to continue to run operations there.

1:23.0

And weapons remaining number one at the weekend box office over the weekend, The Warner Brothers horror film earned $25 million in its second weekend. Disney's Freakier Friday stayed on the second spot. It earned about $14 million domestically. Weapons came out of nowhere. Weapons is awesome. I didn't see it. It came out of nowhere, though. It's surprised everything. know, you got to suspend a lot of disbelief and there's crazy stuff going on.

1:46.4

You saw. Oh, yeah. And in general, it is. I loved it. It's a horror mystery?

1:52.0

Like the first 45 minutes seems like sort of just a mystery and a thriller and, you know, see, the three of us were going to go, but Panopi's not a whore.

2:03.8

And, you know, it's got to, no, it's not whore.

2:06.0

It's just a cliffhanger.

2:07.8

It's whore.

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