It's Jim Kramer here. You're listening to the opening bell of CBC Squawk on the Street. Don't miss a minute of the action. Good Tuesday morning. Welcome to Squawk on the Street. I'm Carl Kintanillo with Jim Kramer and David Faber post nine of the New York Stock Exchange. Today's a big day for Jim. His new book, How to Make Money in any market hits bookstore shelves today. We're going to talk about it in just a few

minutes meantime we do close out the quarter some government shutdown jitters bond

yields are lower Dow S&P on pace for their fifth consecutive monthly game

our roadmap begins with this possible shutdown just dower's away health care

spending a major obstacle and negotiations on Capitol Hill.

Plus, it is the last trading day of September and the quarter. The S&P is on pace for what would be its fifth

straight month of gains. It would be six straight for the NASDAQ. And of course, we'll talk about the

USA to the AI arms race. We've got new numbers from Open AI on how much money it's generating.

We've got some Corweewee Meta News, some IPOs that are interesting.

Lots of stuff for you.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You're welcome. How about that, man?

In-trader.

Jersey Mike.

Oh, there we go again.

Yeah.

Every time.

Same thing.

Okay.

Let's start, though, with this potential.

$14 billion contract. He said everything is it. Yeah, we're going to get to it. We used to think that was a lot of money. We did involving meta. Yes, indeed. Yeah, but not anymore. The shutdown, though, is the lead. This is what the president said a few moments ago about the impact the shutdown might have on federal jobs. If there is a shutdown, how many federal workers do you plan to lay on? Well, we may do a lot, and that's only because of the Democrats.

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