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Closing Bell

Ford CEO on EV Shift; David Sacks on AI; ServiceNow CEO on What’s Next 12/15/25

Closing Bell

CNBC

News, Business

4.8118 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Evercore’s Julian Emanuel breaks down today’s market action and what’s in store for investors in 2026. White House AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks on the latest AI executive order from the Trump administration, the government’s strategy on exports to China and worries about job loss. ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott talks the company’s AI strategy, dealmaking and more. Plus, our Eunice Yoon reports on China’s AI toymakers.

Transcript

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0:00.0

That bell marks the end of regulation, Equable shares, ringing the closing down the New York Stock Exchange,

0:04.7

Sona Therapeutics doing the honors at the NASDAQ and small losses for the Dow and S&P 500.

0:09.9

The NASDAQ down about half a percent. Russell 2000, the worst of the bunch, the biggest drags on the NASDAQ.

0:15.5

Once again, Broadcom and Oracle. Look at those one-week losses.

0:20.5

Broadcom was nearly $2 trillion in market cap heading into earnings and lost about $300 billion in market value. We're going to have more on those names coming up. What is working? Well, three Dow components and one former Dow component, all hitting all-time highs. They're in four very different industries. Walmart, Johnson & Johnson, JPMorgan, and General Motors.

0:39.3

GM's high dates back to 2008. Meanwhile, oil's lower today. That's hurting energy stocks,

0:45.9

silver higher once again, and Bitcoin down to just about 85,000. Well, that's the scorecard on Wall Street.

0:52.0

Welcome to Closing Bell overtime. I'm Morgan Brennan, along with John Fort.

0:55.0

And we have a busy hour coming up, really busy. We're going to talk to David Sacks. The White House's crypto and AIs are. The President issuing an executive order aiming to have one set of federal rules for AI. Some states are not happy about that, though.

1:08.7

And service now, the worst performing stock in the S&P 500 on deal rumors and an analyst downgrade. CEO Bill McDermott's going to join us. Well, let's start with the markets. As all the major averages closed in the red, as those AI trade worries persist. Christina Ports and Avalis is at the NASAC with more. Hi, Christina. Hi, Morgan. Well, key stocks, like you just mentioned, in the AI trade, continued to face

1:29.0

pressure. You had Oracle that was the focal point, again, closing lower for a third straight day

1:33.2

and higher than usual volume, has really the debate over its AI cloud investment just rages on

1:38.1

other stocks tied to AI data center spending, including CoreWeave, Nebius, you can see closing

1:43.1

both 7% lower today.

1:45.3

Broadcom extended its post-earning slide, closing about 5.5% lower. The stock really took a hit

1:50.1

on reports that Google has doubled its custom chip order with competitor MediaTech for

1:55.4

26, this according to Econ Daily. Some are reading that as a win for Media Tech at Broadcom's

2:00.7

expense.

2:01.9

But Jeffreys says AI is, quote, still in fashion in and out today. The firm named Broadcom

2:06.9

a top pick saying custom chip adoption is still in the early stages. They also upgraded KLA to

2:11.9

buy betting lower interest rates will help analog and chip equipment firms. That's why KLA closed

2:16.6

higher today.

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