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Broadcom Extends AI Sell-Off, Lululemon CEO to Step Down, Chipotle CEO Interview12/12/25

Squawk on the Street

CNBC

News, Business, Investing

4.1567 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

On a day in which the Dow and Russell 2000 hit fresh all-time highs, Carl Quintanilla and Jim Cramer also drilled down on continued weakness in the AI trade. Broadcom shares take a hit despite better-than-expected quarterly results. A shake-up at Lululemon: Shares of the athleisure retailer rally on news Calvin McDonald is stepping down as CEO. Chipotle CEO Scott Boatwright joined the program at Post 9 after ringing the opening bell at the NYSE. Hear what he had to say about the restaurant chain and the state of the consumer. Also in focus: Costco's beat, RH CEO Gary Friedman on tariffs and earnings, What OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told David Faber about Google Gemini AI. Squawk on the Street Disclaimer

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0:00.0

Market insight and analysis. You're listening to the opening bell of CNBC, Squawk on the Street.

0:05.8

Good Friday morning. Welcome to Squawk on the Street. I'm Carl Kintania with Jim Kramer here at Post 9 of the New York Stock Exchange.

0:11.0

Faber has the morning off. Bulls trying to build on Thursday's all-time highs, even without the help of AI, which gets some more curveballs today in the guidance from Broadcom.

0:20.0

FedSpeak is back. Longbond near 4'9.

0:23.6

That's the steepest curve now on 2's 10 since 2022.

0:26.6

Our roadmap begins with the AI-driven tech slide going into day three now,

0:30.6

as Broadcom becomes the latest company to fuel some worries.

0:33.6

The president signs this EO, issuing a single regulation framework for artificial intelligence

0:39.5

and that limits the power in the states. Watching cannabis today as well, surging in the pre-market

0:44.6

on some reports the president will reclassify marijuana, Tilray alone, up more than 30%.

0:50.4

Let's begin, though, with more weakness in the AI trade a day after the S&P's first record

0:54.9

close since October, Jim. Today, it is Broadcom, backlog a little light, narrowing margins,

1:02.6

no guidance on 26. You want to buy Broadcom maybe at the opening, maybe if it's a little bit

1:06.9

lower. And you do because the way that the conference call was set up, you found out

1:12.4

that the gross margins and one piece of business weren't as good as people thought. So therefore,

1:16.5

the overall projection of what they could do did not have the gross margins. People went.

1:22.0

It's almost as if these people don't know who Hawk tan is. Hawk saves something. Hawk always

1:26.7

has something in his back pocket.

1:28.7

This was just a very, very good quarter. Notice everyone raised price target. Almost everybody

1:34.3

raised estimates. Look, if it was price target down and estimates down, then you would sell

1:40.2

this stock down, 25 as it was. But instead, it's the opposite.

1:45.2

The numbers are real good.

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