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Squawk on the Street

Futures Trading Outage, November Volatility, Black Friday Bonanza 11/28/25

Squawk on the Street

CNBC

Business, News, Investing

4.1567 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Carl Quintanilla, David Faber and Sara Eisen led off the show with the resumption of stock futures trading — after it had been halted at the CME due to a data-center cooling issue which knocked out futures and options across markets. The anchors also explored what to make of November volatility and the AI trade on the final trading day of the month. Covering the bases on Black Friday: Adobe out with data forecasting record sales, action at the malls, the retailers best positioned for success, Apple's holiday game plan. Squawk on the Street Disclaimer

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0:00.0

It's Jim Kramer here. You're listening to the opening bell of CNBC's Squawk on the Street.

0:04.7

Don't miss a minute of the action. Good Friday morning. Welcome to Squawk in the Street. I'm Carl Kintaniel with David Faber and Sarah Eisen at post nine of the New York Stock Exchange. Kramer has the morning off. Final trading day of November, S&P goes for its seventh straight monthly gain. If some of these gains hold, it's an early close for stocks and bonds.

0:22.6

We are still recovering from this trading halt at the CME. goes for its seventh straight monthly gain. If some of these gains hold, it's an early close

0:21.3

for stocks and bonds. We are still recovering from this trading halt to the CME due to a data

0:25.8

center cooling issue, which did knock out futures and options across markets.

0:30.8

Our roadmap begins with the markets as we wrap up this final day of the month. S&P goes

0:34.4

for its best Thanksgiving week in over a decade. Plus the AI trade going into year end, as Alphabet of course month. S&P goes for its best Thanksgiving week in over a decade. Plus the AI trade going

0:39.4

into year end as Alphabet of course continues that historic run. Invidia shares, they're deep

0:45.5

into a correction territory right now. And Black Friday kicking off the crucial holiday shopping

0:51.5

season. We'll get the early read and discuss which retailers

0:54.1

are best positioned right now. Let's begin with futures, which are resuming after being halted

0:59.8

by the CME overnight due to this data center cooling issue. We're still learning more about it,

1:05.5

talking about the vendor here, which I think David is a KKR property, but sort of draws attention to the cooling

1:13.5

issue, which is just getting started if this AI demand keeps up.

1:17.3

That's a good point.

1:18.0

And just overall reminds you of the vulnerabilities in the system of companies who

1:21.8

have perhaps heard of.

1:22.8

You're right.

1:23.2

Cyrus 1 was briefly a public company taken private by KKR sometime back. But you know what? These kinds of

1:33.7

things, yes. Given the rapid construction of data centers across the country, of course,

1:40.4

and how often we talk about power, the power is key to cooling these, given how hot GPUs can run. And so it is an interesting point, Carl, to sort of think about. I'm not sure what exactly was at issue here or why they had the issue. I'm not sure we've learned that much about it at this point. Yeah, you hear data centers in cooling and think, uh-oh. I guess the last time something like this happened was back in 2019, so six years ago, and

2:03.6

didn't last quite as long as this.

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