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Squawk on the Street

Stocks Slide as Oil Spikes, Exclusive With Palantir CEO Alex Karp 3/12/26

Squawk on the Street

CNBC

Investing, News, Business

4.0566 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The Iran war/Mideast tensions effect: Carl Quintanilla and Jim Cramer discussed stocks down sharply and oil prices spiking on a day which saw Brent crude briefly top $100/barrel — the International Energy Agency said the world is facing the “largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market.” In a CNBC Exclusive, Seema Mody and the anchors interviewed Palantir CEO Alex Karp about the Iran war, defense technology and the company's AI strategy. Also in focus: Cramer's message on private credit and beaten-down shares of alternative asset managers, Oracle and Atlassian job cuts, Dollar General under pressure, reaction to Dick's Sporting Goods' earnings and guidance, Petco soars. Squawk on the Street Disclaimer

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0:00.0

Market moving insight and analysis join Jim Kramer, David Faber, and me, Carl Kintanilla, on the opening bell hour of CNBC Squawk on the Street.

0:12.0

Good Thursday morning. Welcome to Squawk on the Street. I'm Carl Kintania with Jim Kramer at post-9 of the New York Stock Exchange. Faber has the morning off.

0:20.0

Brent Oil gets back above 100 as Iran launches fresh attacks on tankers, Dubai, Bahrain, Qatar,

0:27.5

and the Energy Secretary tells CNBC the Navy escort's unlikely to begin until the end of the month.

0:33.4

Maintime stocks look to open a little bit below Wednesday's low, 10-year spikes to 4.

0:38.2

a quarter.

0:39.2

Our roadmap begins with oil prices resuming their surge.

0:41.8

The IEA calls it the biggest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market.

0:47.3

Shares a Palantir up 10% since the beginning of the war.

0:50.1

We are joined exclusively by co-founder and CEO Alex Karp. And some more red flags for private credit this time, Morgan Stanley, Cliffwater, Deutsche, and Partners Group in the news.

1:01.4

We began, though, with higher crude prices in mid-east tensions weighing on the markets.

1:04.9

Yesterday, the president spoke about oil in his first campaign-style rally since the war began.

1:12.1

Oil prices are already coming back down, and it's going to come down,

1:16.5

but we're not leaving until that job is finished, and it's going to be very fast.

1:21.8

And we remain curious, Jim, as to what finish means.

1:25.9

Yeah, I mean, I don't know, because we have to go back to the, again, the 72 playbook,

1:30.3

the last time the United States found itself to look like it did not have the upper hand,

1:35.3

which was really, frankly, was against the North Vietnamese.

1:39.3

And what Kissinger did was to go after the grid, to shut down the country, decided to make it so that

1:47.1

instead of bombing ports and military, they're just going to shut down the whole country

1:51.7

by taking on all the infrastructure.

1:54.6

Not that, of course, they have oil infrastructure, but just say, okay, look, you're done.

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