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Oil prices soar as the president's speech on Iran stokes fears.

If the market is looking for a quick answer, they didn't get it last night from that speech.

Gold down and silver down and bitcoin down.

Yeah.

Is there further escalation to come? Eurasia groups Farad Mokstad.

This war will go on for at least another two to three weeks,

perhaps a bit longer to achieve its mission.

I'm watching the military deployments much closer than I'm actually watching

and indexing around what the president is saying.

And asking the small questions like, what's life's meaning?

Happiness expert and professor Arthur Brooks joins us.

There's no creature in the universe that we know besides Homo sapiens that has ever asked a single question.

We think that we'll have agentic AI that would be like humans because it'll be able to answer any question. Answering questions is not human. Asking questions is human. Plus from the

earth to the moon and teens and sports betting a report from a unique personal finance class.

It is Thursday, April 2nd, 2026. Squawk Pod begins right now. Stand Becky by in three, two, one. Cue, please. Today's the second, second day of the second quarter. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to Squawk Box right here on CNBC. We are live from the NASDAQ market site in Times Square. I'm Becky Quick, along with

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Happy birthday to your mother as well. There you go. And I think Morgan said it best. Thank you.

To all of us for being here. Which is true. Including us.

President Trump says the U.S. is getting close to meeting its objectives in the Iran war.

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