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Squawk on the Street

Cramer Rings NYSE Opening Bell, Bessent Speaks, Earnings Parade 4/29/25

Squawk on the Street

CNBC

Business, Investing, News

4.1567 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

A big day for CNBC and Jim Cramer: He rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange in celebration of the 20th anniversary of "Mad Money" -- ahead of a CNBC special which airs Tuesday at 7pm EDT. Carl Quintanilla, David Faber and Jim reacted to the press briefing where Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent spoke about tariffs and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt slammed Amazon. The anchors also discussed a slew of earnings reports from the likes of General Motors, Coca-Cola and UPS. Squawk on the Street Disclaimer

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0:00.0

Market Moving Insight and Analysis.

0:02.0

Join Jim Kramer, David Faber, and me, Carl Kintanilla, on the opening bell,

0:06.0

on the street.

0:08.0

You're listening to Squawk on the Street, the opening bell, in progress.

0:14.0

That is the Treasury Secretary on the President's 100th day in office.

0:18.0

It is Scott Beston who gets the press briefing at the White House. Good Tuesday morning.

0:22.3

Welcome to Squamuck on the street. I'm Carl Kingtonia with Jim Kramer, David Faber, Post 9 of the New York Stock Exchange.

0:27.6

Jim, talking some trade tariffs, talking deregulation, talking taxes. Yeah, and I think that the

0:33.5

ultimate takeaway for viewers at home is that they, the president did say through this

0:37.9

spokesperson that Amazon putting up the tariffs, costs, is a hostile act.

0:45.2

And so people are immediately selling Amazon.

0:47.6

It could be knee jerk, David.

0:49.0

You know that there are probably others who may do the same thing.

0:51.6

Yeah, we want to talk a bit about that.

0:53.1

I think the Treasury Secretary did not say anything. We didn't really hear yesterday in the sense of getting

0:58.3

close on something on India, bringing up South Korea and Japan as well as other opportunities,

1:03.7

perhaps in the near term for. And again, these are not going to be agreements, so to speak.

1:09.0

What they will be is memorandums of understanding that probably

1:11.8

have the effect of reducing tariffs and provide the roadmap for getting to an agreement,

1:17.1

which, of course, will take quite some time to hammer out, as Armaged Casella makes clear

1:21.2

whenever she's reporting on these things. I will say that's been going around in the markets as

1:26.1

well, guys. You know, you hear from any number of uninformed hedge fund managers that this is what they're hearing. Well, we're going to get this one done and then we're going to get that one and then that one and then we're going to get China. But nobody, as I like to say, really knows anything. But we did hear at least the Treasury Secretary give voice to the idea of some of these things being close. the ones that are most often talked about, India, South Korea, Japan.

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