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Squawk on the Street

SOTS 2nd Hour: M&A Under Trump, Tariff Tech Picks, & DeepSeek-ing New Funds? 2/19/25

Squawk on the Street

CNBC

News, Business, Investing

4.1567 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Carl Quintanilla and Courtney Reagan broke down today’s market set-up after President Trump laid out new tariff threats for 3 key industries: Autos, Pharma, and Semiconductors. Stocks under pressure as earnings from a number of sectors disappoint: Toll Brothers results hitting the homebuilders, Bumble plunging double-digits, and Etsy citing consumer headwinds… But that said: some green shoots in energy, from Solaredge to Occidental. Within the hour: the team talked top tech picks with Wedbush’s Dan Ives, fresh off a channel check in Asia; the state of the AI arms race with Logan Bartlett of Redpoint Ventures; broke down one sector still licking its wounds post-DeepSeek sell-off; and discussed Trump’s decision to keep Biden-era rules around merger reviews - with one former FTC Commissioner who says that’s not a bad thing. Also in focus: Saudi-backed Future Investment Institute kicking off its “Priority Summit” in Miami, with President Trump expected to attend – David Faber brought a live read from the ground, and broke down expectations with CEO Richard Attias. Squawk on the Street Disclaimer

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0:00.0

Good Wednesday morning. Welcome to another hour of squawk on the street. I'm Carl Kintana here with Courtney Reagan here at Post 9 of the New York Stock Exchange.

0:06.4

Sarah Eisen has the morning off. David Faber is going to join us a little bit later with a big interview. Meantime losses this morning. Dow's down about 150, backing off of yesterday's all-time highs on the NASDAQ and S&P. The oils up a buck yields creeping a little bit, still holding that level around 4, 5, 5 on the 10-year.

0:23.8

And we are 30 minutes into the trading session. Here are three movers that we were watching so far, Toll Brothers under pressure after the home builder missed earnings estimates. Impairments and a delay in the sale of an apartment property at one of its joint ventures were key drags on the results. You can see shares down more than 6%.

0:39.2

Other home builders like Pulte, Linar, D.R. Horton, KB. Home also under pressure this morning.

0:44.4

It looks as if KB. Home there down the worst of the bunch, down 2.4%.

0:48.3

Now Bumble shares also plunging and disappointing guidance. Revenue down year

0:52.3

over a year in the quarter. Shares now cut in half over the last year, down more than 22% at this point.

0:58.8

And we're keeping an eye on Apple today, the tech giant, expected to unveil an upgrade to its most affordable iPhone, the iPhone SE4.

1:05.7

We're going to bring you that latest news, When It Process.

1:08.9

Let's turn to the broader markets this morning. Stocks are in the red after those fresh record closing highs on the S&P and NASDAQ.

1:14.9

Our senior markets commentator, Mike Santoli, is here with the setup, Mike.

1:18.3

And Jim's point last hour about how we're having to get reconditioned to the pace of news like we were post-2016.

1:25.9

Yeah, I think that's been part of the process in the last few

1:28.3

weeks, is essentially to know what to extrapolate, what not to, how to perhaps kind of take a

1:35.1

step back and not react to anything that's not yet substantive and firm. So I think that's part of

1:40.2

what's been keeping the market in check in a sense. So we keep feeding off of very positive

1:45.9

set of initial conditions, right? The economy growing well, coming into the year. Earnings are up,

1:51.3

you know, as the usual, 77% of companies beating estimates and we're beating by seven percentage

1:56.1

points. So you've kind of justified the valuations on that level. And the market just continues to rotate around.

2:02.6

Whenever it looks like there's one area that's going to kind of compromise the strength of everything else,

2:08.6

something else offsets it.

2:09.6

Now, I don't know that that could last forever.

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