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Squawk on the Street

Inflation Watch, AI Fears, the Tech Sell-Off and Beyond 2/13/26

Squawk on the Street

CNBC

News, Business, Investing

4.1567 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Carl Quintanilla, Scott Wapner and Michael Santoli led off the show with market reaction to January CPI: Consumer inflation was tamer-than-expected. The anchors drilled down on the stocks and sectors impacted by AI fears. In the mix after Thursday's tech sell-off: Weakness in shares of Apple and Amazon, Applied Materials surges on earnings thanks to the AI boom. Also in focus: A tale of two consumer sectors in February — staples surge while discretionary stocks slide, Rivian soars, the "surge in blowups," the "hedge America" trade, the anchors react to what Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon and Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky told CNBC in eye-opening interviews. Squawk on the Street Disclaimer

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0:00.0

Market moving insight and analysis join Jim Kramer, David Faber, me, Carl Kintania, on the opening bell hour of CNBC Squawk on the Street.

0:08.7

Good Friday morning, welcome to Squawk on the Street. I'm Carl Kintanio with Scott Wapner, Mike Santoli, a post-9 of the New York Stock Exchange.

0:14.6

Kramer in favor of the morning off. Futures do erase some losses here is January core CPI prints in line up to five year on year.

0:22.5

Ten year drops to 407. That's the lows of the year.

0:25.9

But these AI jitters do persist as MagS.

0:28.5

in a technical correction, Amazon, Microsoft, and some bare markets.

0:32.4

Our roadmap begins with phantom AI fears fueling big market volatility, software, transports, commercial real estate,

0:39.7

brokerages all among the hardest hit, but is the sell-off overdone?

0:43.2

As Carl was saying, the Mag 7 trade under pressure, Apple shares coming off the worst day since April,

0:48.7

Amazon joining Microsoft in a bare market, which shares lower once again pre-market.

0:53.9

Tariff rollback, the White House reportedly considering scaling back some steel and aluminum

0:58.9

tariffs.

1:00.1

Let's begin with market reaction to CPI, digging through some of the internals here.

1:05.8

Electricity and gas prices did, or gas prices at least, did a lot of heavy carrying a lot of

1:10.3

water this time, Mike?

1:11.6

They are. I think the bigger picture is mild relief because everybody was tensed up for the tendency of January CPI to run a little hotter than expectations.

1:19.6

So I think that you get, you know, a little bit light on headline.

1:22.6

Core comes in where you thought. It still can tell a kind of Goldilocks disinflationary

1:27.6

story.

1:28.7

That was enough at least to kind of keep some of the pressure away because we were looking

1:32.5

at negative opens for the equity indexes.

1:35.0

The two-year yield drops to a cycle low.

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