5 Things to Know Before the Opening Bell 9/8/2025

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🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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The 5 things you need to know before the stock market opens today: Robinhood, Applovin, and Emcor will join the S&P 500 later this month, chipmaker ASML will reportedly take a board seat at French startup Mistral AI, OpenAI has reportedly raised its projected cash burn to $115 billion through 2029, the newest “The Conjuring” had the highest grossing opening weekend at the box office out of any of the nine films in the franchise, and two winners will split the $1.8 billion Powerball Jackpot. 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 Andrew Osork and co-host of Squatbox with Becky Quick, and this is Five Things to Know before the opening bell.
0:08.1	Chairs of Robin Hood, App Lovin, and MCOR group all rising this morning, S&P Global, saying the companies will join the S&P 500 prior to the start of trading on September 22nd.
0:18.7	So a big congratulations to those three firms.
0:21.4	Getting added into the index is a very, very big deal.
0:24.4	Me time.
0:25.5	It's hilarious.
0:26.5	I own the S&P 500 because that's all we can own.
0:29.0	That in Comcast shares.
0:30.3	So I now own App Levin.
0:32.1	There you go.
0:33.5	I actually chuckled when I saw that last night.
0:37.5	Chip making equipment giant ASML will reportedly become the top shareholder of French AI startup.
0:44.5	Mistreel Reuters saying that ASML will commit $1.3 billion for Mr.Ral's roughly $2 billion fundraise and take a board seat.
0:52.9	In the meantime, OpenAI has raised its projected cash burn.
0:56.0	You ready to this?
0:56.7	Ready for this?
0:57.0	$115 billion through 2029.
1:00.8	That's according to a new report of the information.
1:03.1	It did not cite sources.
1:04.9	The new forecast is $80 billion higher than the company had previously expected.
1:10.7	And some investors who just got in at the new fundraising round, I think may have been a bit
1:17.7	surprised by that.
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