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Squawk on the Street

Markets and Mideast Tensions, "Golden Share," Analyst on Tesla "Sell" Call 6/16/25

Squawk on the Street

CNBC

Investing, Business, News

4.1567 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Carl Quintanilla, David Faber and Sara Eisen kicked off a new week of trading with stocks rebounding sharply and oil prices giving back some of Friday's huge gains -- despite the ongoing Israel-Iran conflict. President Trump approved U.S. Steel's deal with Nippon Steel, with terms requiring a "golden share" for the U.S. government. Guggenheim's Tesla analyst joined the program nearly a week after his "sell" rating on the stock. Also in focus: Trump at the G7 in Canada, Meta's WhatsApp to roll out ads directly on its platform, Sarepta plummets, Roku surges on its partnership with Amazon, Circle up 400% since its early June IPO. Squawk on the Street Disclaimer

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0:00.0

Market moving insight and analysis.

0:02.1

Join Jim Kramer, David Faber, and me, Carl Kintanilla, on the opening bell hour of CNBC Squawk on the Street. Good Monday morning. Welcome to Squawk on the street. I'm Carl Kintanio with David Faber and Sarah Eisen at post nine of the New York Stock Exchange. Kramer has the morning off. Futures near session highs after a weekend in which oil facilities in the Mideast has so far been spared. as Iran and Israel trade missile attacks.

0:23.8

Oil is back near 70. after a weekend in which oil facilities in the mid-east have so far been spared as Iran and

0:22.0

Israel trade missile attacks. Oil's back near 71, busy week with the Fed decision, retail sales,

0:28.4

and the G7 summit. Our roadmap begins with the markets digesting some of these mid-east tensions.

0:33.0

Stocks coming off their worst day in more than three weeks.

0:35.5

Speaking of stocks, shares a U.S. deal, they're going to be up in the pre-market.

0:39.2

Why? Well, President Trump late Friday did approve the company's deal to be acquired by Nippon.

0:43.9

It does require a golden share and gives that to the U.S. government.

0:48.0

Also ahead, oil prices pulling back after the Israel-Iran conflict fueled the biggest one-day gains for WTI and Brent since 2022.

0:56.9

Let's begin with the Middle East, of course, on the market's radar as we do kick off a new trading

1:01.0

weeks. Sarah is absolutely right. The focus is going to be on energy today. Nat gas a little elevated,

1:06.5

but after hitting 78 on Friday on West Texas back to 71 and a half.

1:11.8

And a lot of notes this morning talking about how maybe markets are overreacting to some of

1:17.8

the tensions in the Middle East.

1:19.4

Or underreacting.

1:20.4

I mean, oils has this sort of numb effect sometimes to geopolitical risk.

1:24.9

That's been a constant theme for the last few years now.

1:28.7

So it was actually a big move that we got on Friday. And some might have thought coming

1:32.7

in today, we would see oil prices elevated again today just because we're in the fourth day

1:37.5

in a row now. It's escalated. But I guess what the market is looking at, David, is that oil

1:42.6

supply still flows through the Middle East and has not been disruptive.

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