5 Things to Know Before the Opening Bell 9/29/2025
Squawk Pod
CNBC
4.2 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2025
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Becky Quick, co-host of Squawk Box, and this is five things you need to know before today's opening bell. |
| 0:08.7 | Jeep maker Stalantis naming a new chief financial officer. |
| 0:12.4 | The company said its previous CFO had resigned for personal reasons. |
| 0:16.8 | British drug maker, GSC, says that CEO Emma Walmsley will step down in December and be replaced by the company's chief commercial officer. |
| 0:25.2 | Walmsley had led GSK for the last nine years. Her contract was set to end next September. |
| 0:31.2 | You can see that stock right now up by about 3.5%. |
| 0:34.1 | SEC Chair, Paul Atkins, is vowing to fast-track President Trump's proposal to end |
| 0:39.4 | quarterly earnings reports. In an opinion piece in the Financial Times, Atkins writes that the government |
| 0:44.2 | should provide the minimum effective dose of regulation needed to protect investors while allowing |
| 0:49.4 | businesses to flourish. Vice President J.D. Vance says that he is optimistic about the future of TikTok |
| 0:55.4 | in the United States. Speaking on Fox News, the vice president said that he feels confidence |
| 1:00.4 | the U.S. side of TikTok is successfully separated from what from TikTok global and that U.S. |
| 1:06.7 | users' data will be secure. And Puerto Rican hip-hop artist Bad Bunny named as the headliner for February Super Bowl halftime show. |
| 1:15.6 | This is after reports that say Taylor Swift passed on an offer to star in that show. |
| 1:21.1 | We'll be back later today with Squawk Pod, our daily podcast featuring the best of SquackBox. |
| 1:26.4 | Stay tuned to your feed, wherever you get your |
| 1:29.4 | podcast, and listen anytime. |
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