SOTS 2nd Hour: Trump On The Hill, Google’s Existential Moment, and Home Depot’s Different Take On Tariffs 5/20/25
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🗓️ 20 May 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Good Tuesday morning. Welcome to Squawk in the Street. I'm Carl Kintanao with Mike Santoli here at Post 9 of the New York Stock Exchange, along with Sarah Eisen, who joins today from CNBC's CEO CEO, CEO, David's on assignment at Tesla's Austin, Texas headquarters ahead of a huge, rare interview you don't want to miss. And 2 p.m. Eastern Time with Tesla CEO Elon Musk. In the meantime, S&P, NDX, both going for a six-day win, but Bonds not necessarily |
| 0:24.3 | playing along at the moment with the tenure back above four and a half and the 30-year approaching |
| 0:28.7 | five once again. I had this hour Alphabet kicking off its Google I.O. Developers conference, |
| 0:33.9 | big questions swirling around the company's future with surge and AI. We're going to talk to a former Alphabet executive who now runs AI in quantum computing company Sandbox AQ. Plus the key reading on the state of the consumer from Home Depot. A very different tone from Walmart when it comes to tariffs today. We'll get you those details straight ahead. All right, we are 30 minutes into the trading session. |
| 0:55.3 | Here are three big movers we are watching. D-Wave Quantum is jumping this morning after the company |
| 1:00.5 | released its latest computing system, Advantage 2, which it says can solve, quote, complex problems |
| 1:06.5 | beyond the reach of classical computers. You see the stock is up 18%. |
| 1:11.6 | This has been one of those favorite kind of speculative quantum names in the market. |
| 1:16.5 | Some moves in software as well, loop capital downgrading MongoDB to hold from buy on slower |
| 1:22.6 | than expected AI tailwinds, while Evercore upgraded HPE to buy, as they call the risk reward levels favorable there. |
| 1:29.9 | You see each one moving slightly in the direction indicated. |
| 1:34.2 | And Levi Strauss is on the move as well. |
| 1:36.6 | Following news, it will sell dockers to authentic brands group for more than $300 million. |
| 1:42.2 | Levi's up 2.5%. |
| 1:43.4 | Sarah. |
| 1:46.0 | Mike, I'm here at the CEO Council Summit out west. And look, annual gathering of CEOs |
| 1:52.4 | from a cross-section of industries. And, you know, I thought it would be all about tariffs and |
| 1:57.7 | the new administration and re-regulation. But, you know, there's a lot of talk also about just changes in consumer behavior |
| 2:04.0 | and consumer buying habits. |
| 2:06.4 | That's been a big trend here as well. |
| 2:07.9 | And, yes, how to deal with some of the changes we're getting in Washington. |
| 2:12.6 | Just wanted to bring you some color from some conversations we've had already on stage. |
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