5 Things to Know Before the Opening Bell 9/19/2025

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🗓️ 19 September 2025

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The 5 things you need to know before the stock market opens today: The House of Representatives set to vote today to fund the government through November 21st, Nvidia is paying more than $900 million to partner with startup Enfabrica, Netskope jumped in its Wall Street debut, homebuilder Lennar reported a decline in quarterly profits, and there are reports that Softbank’s “vision fund” will lay off workers. 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 a Swackbox, and this is Five Things to Know before today's
0:07.9	opening bell.
0:09.2	The House is set to vote this morning to keep the government funded through November 21st.
0:14.1	House Speaker Mike Johnson appears not to have the votes, though, at the moment.
0:18.4	Just two legislative days remain before the government shuts down.
0:24.8	NVIDIA, paying more than $900 million to license technology from AI hardware startup in Fabrica,
0:31.1	and to hire the company's CEO and other employees, and Fabrica's technology helps tie
0:37.3	Nvidia chips together. Shares of cybersecurity firm
0:41.4	Netscope, the CEO on yesterday, jumping more than 18% in their
0:45.3	Wall Street debut. NetScoe priced its IPO at $19
0:49.3	a share. They closed yesterday at about $2.50. Shares of home builder Lenar are lower.
0:56.0	The company reported a 46% decline in third quarter profit,
1:00.0	also forecasting fourth quarter home deliveries that were below
1:04.0	Wall Street estimates. Stocks down about 3%.
1:07.0	And Reuters is reporting SoftBanks Vision Fund
1:10.0	will lay off about 20% of its staff as it focuses more on AI bets.
1:16.4	Vision Fund currently has more than 300 employees out worldwide.
1:21.9	We'll be back later today with an all-new Squawk Pod, our daily podcast, featuring the best of Squackbox. Check it out,
1:28.8	wherever you get your podcast and listen anytime.

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