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Closing Bell

Closing Bell Overtime: Trump–Putin Meet in Alaska, Fed Outlook & China Slowdown 8/15/25

Closing Bell

CNBC

Business, News

4.8118 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Kristina Partsinevelos sets the market theme before Rick Santelli breaks down bond market reaction to fresh economic data. Eamon Javers reports on the Trump–Putin meeting, followed by insight from former Defense Secretary Mark Esper. Gene Sperling, former NEC Director, discusses the economy and the Fed, while Adam Crisafulli of Vital Knowledge reviews the week that was and the week ahead. Beeneet Kothari of Tekne Capital examines China’s economic slowdown, and Aneesha Sherman of Bernstein previews retail sales and earnings.

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0:00.0

Well, that's the end of regulation. Enigmatic, ringing the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange, International Youth Foundation, and the Burberry Foundation doing the honors at the NASDAQ.

0:08.9

Stock's closing lower today for the S&P and the NASDAQ. It looks like the Dow just barely eeking out a gain. That's after hitting an intraday record on the back of United Health.

0:19.7

The weekly numbers, though, pretty strong.

0:21.5

Roughly 1% gains across the board. The Russell 2000 was really the standout this week. It was

0:25.5

its best week in three months. United Health adding about 350 points to the Dow on the week.

0:31.0

Today's gains driven by those 13F filings. Some big names, including Berkshire Halfway,

0:35.7

have been buying the stock after it's been so beaten down.

0:39.6

And oil lower, as the world watches this meeting between President Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin,

0:45.8

we're going to continue to watch that as well.

0:47.9

That's the scorecar on Wall Street.

0:49.5

Welcome to closing bell overtime.

0:51.0

I'm Morgan Brennan.

0:52.2

John Ford is off today.

0:53.6

And this is no quiet summer Friday. We've got a lot of big news to talk about. We'm Morgan Brennan. John Port is off today. And this is no quiet summer

0:55.2

Friday. We've got a lot of big news to talk about. We're going to discuss this Trump-Pooten

0:59.4

summit in Alaska with former Defense Secretary Mark Esper. And we've got former NEC director,

1:05.6

Gene Sperling here to talk about the economy, inflation, and the Fed having big impact on the markets this week.

1:13.7

Plus, we're going to get you ready for next week when many big name retailers will report results,

1:18.5

including Home Depot, Lowe's, Walmart, and Target. But first, let's begin with the markets,

1:23.3

and Intel having its best week in, get this, 25 years.

1:27.3

Christina Parsinevilles is at the NASDAQ with more.

1:29.2

Hi, Christina.

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