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Squawk on the Street

SOTS 2nd Hour: Prepping For The Fed, Google’s Biggest Acquisition EVER, and Time To Look Overseas? 3/18/25

Squawk on the Street

CNBC

Investing, News, Business

4.1567 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Stocks kicking off the morning in the red – David Faber, Michael Santoli, and Sara Eisen broke down the latest on the Fed front and where rates could be headed tomorrow. Why T. Rowe Price CIO Sébastien Page says to bet on international equities here over the SPX – plus, what Citi Wealth’s CIO is telling clients amid the volatility (“Do not buy the dip”). The team also discussed results of CNBC’s latest Fed Survey, as the street’s biggest investors and leaders say stocks are ‘overpriced’ here – the full report, this hour. Also in focus: Google announcing its largest acquisition EVER – cloud security startup ‘Wiz’ for $32B… The key details, and what it means for the stock with an analyst from Roth Capital. Plus, speaking of big tech – a live read from the ground at Nvidia’s GTC Developer’s conference in San Jose. Squawk on the Street Disclaimer

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0:00.0

Good Tuesday morning. Welcome to Squawk on the Street. I'm Sarah Eisen with David Faber and Mike Santoli. Live as always her post-9 of the New York Stock Exchange.

0:15.2

Stocks are under pressure. We're looking at a decline right now of more than 1%. Only sector higher, energy, oil prices, moving on heightened geopolitical risk.

0:23.6

The big headline overnight, of course, in Gaza.

0:26.6

But you are seeing pressure, even though we did manage to gain yesterday, saw the first back-to-back gain for the S&P 500 in about a month since the last time the S&P was at a record high. The worst hit areas of the

0:39.2

market continue to be around technology, like meta, for instance, down 4%. Alphabet, down 3.5%.

0:45.8

We'll talk about the deal. Netflix down as well. Of course, high anticipation for the

0:51.1

NVIDIA keynote with that stock under pressure as well. Qualcomm getting a little bit of a boost, but most of the other chips are under pressure right now. Take a look at Treasuries, day one of a two-day Fed meeting, and we are seeing yields move south again, the 10-year yield now below 4.3, two-year yield just above 4%. We'll hear from Fed Chair J Powell tomorrow at the news conference and the decision. No change expected, but what will he say about some of the recent softness in the economy?

1:18.5

We're 30 minutes here into the trading session. Here are three big movers we're watching. Big declines in shares of surreptopitheuts, after news that a patient who had undergone gene therapy treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy has died.

1:31.2

The first known death linked to that treatment. Stock is down sharply.

1:35.2

Shares of Tesla rival and Chinese EV giant B.D gaining after unveiling a new technology that it claims can charge electric vehicles almost as quickly as it takes to fill a gas tank.

1:45.2

The details later this hour. And then Google, ParanAlphabet has agreed to buy cybersecurity firm

1:49.8

WIS for about $30 billion. Google's largest deal ever, by far, WIS provides cybersecurity software

1:56.3

for cloud computing companies, including Google. We're going to dive into that deal in detail

2:01.4

with some extra reporting in just a moment. But guys, on the macro front, I think the biggest

2:07.3

question for the market seems to be, and Mike, you alluded to this yesterday, is how bad is

2:13.4

the economy right now? We know there's a little bit of softness, a little bit of cooling off

2:17.7

from where we were toward the end of last year, but recession, are we just going to talk ourselves

2:23.3

into it? The signals are kind of mixed, and I prepared two charts that I think indicate what

2:30.7

investors are wondering about, maybe when it comes to the direction of the market or when it comes

2:34.6

to the direction of the economy. So the first from Katie Huberty of Morgan Stanley, credit market tends to be a leader.

2:40.7

If you're worried about the economy, you usually see cracks in the credit market, but guess what? Not happening.

2:46.3

I mean, there's the U.S. high yield total return in blue, and it's's been very stable and it hasn't flashed any

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