Becky & Squawk’s Biggest Teenage Fan

Squawk Pod

CNBC

Business News, Investing, Business, News

4 • 494 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Nick, a 15-year-old CNBC fan, started his Twitter account @Live_News_Nick at the beginning of the pandemic in hopes of kickstarting a reporting career. Becky Quick sits down with Nick--via Zoom--to swap stories about covering financial news and pursuing a career in TV.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Squawk Pod. I'm CMBC producer Zach Valise.
0:05.0	Today on our podcast, talented teenagers are getting into the stock market.
0:11.0	Today, Becky Quick is sitting down with who might be Squackbox's biggest fan.
0:17.0	And he's 15?
0:18.0	How in the world do you do what you do?
0:21.0	The NBC is basically everything to me.
0:23.4	As of, you know,
0:24.8	see, basically what I, see NBC I love it.
0:28.0	All that and more coming up on this episode of Squack Pod
0:31.2	right after this.
0:38.0	Welcome back to Squack Pod. Today we're talking to Nick.
0:40.0	He's a high school freshman who runs the Twitter account, News by Nick.
0:43.4	Mixbag on Wall Street today with the Dow closing down
0:47.1	223 points at 28,000.
0:49.2	430 NASDAQ closed up with another record close up 79 points at 11,775.
0:57.5	You can watch Nick go through the rundown of the days later stories, live from his bedroom,
1:01.9	in a giant desk chair, wearing a shirt with a jacko lantern on it but like he's a
1:06.4	cnbee newscaster Nick posts regularly on this account with the latest news from the stock market
1:12.0	and everything going on in the business world.
1:14.3	He features a quote from Warren Buffett on his profile, but the most impressive thing,
1:18.2	he's amassed over 1,600 followers and even attracted the attention of her very own Becky Quick.
1:25.7	Here's Becky now.
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