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Squawk on the Street

Tech Gains, Meta-Nvidia "Millions," Titans and the AI trade 2/18/26

Squawk on the Street

CNBC

Investing, News, Business

4.0566 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Carl Quintanilla, Jim Cramer and David Faber explored Wednesday's gains in the tech sector, one day after the Nasdaq snapped a four-session losing streak and Amazon ended nine consecutive days of losses. Meta expands its deal with Nvidia to purchase millions of chips from the world's most valuable company. The anchors also discussed the latest on Anthropic and the most dominant AI titans. Also in focus: Microsoft as this year's worst performer among the Magnificent 7, Palo Alto Networks slides, what Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos told CNBC about regulatory issues and the company's offer to buy Warner assets, Oil rises on U.S.-Iran tensions, "Faber Report" on MSG Sports exploring a split of its New York Knicks and Rangers businesses. Squawk on the Street Disclaimer

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0:00.0

Market insight and analysis. You're listening to the opening bell of CNBC, Squawk on the Street.

0:05.7

Good Wednesday morning. Welcome to Squawk on the Street. I'm Carl Kintanilla. Jim Kramer's back alongside me and David Faber here at post-9 of the New York Stock Exchange.

0:13.6

Futures are steady after Tuesday somewhat wobbly action. Busy day for eco-data. Both durables and starts were quite strong ahead of Friday's GDP number.

0:22.4

Ten-year almost back to 408. Oil hits 64 on some of these Iran jitters. Our roadmap begins with

0:29.0

tech and the AI trade bouncing back today. Amazon snapping that nine-day losing streak.

0:34.1

Plus, arm shares moving higher in the pre-market. This as Nvidia shakes up its AI investments. And the so-called smart money making a lot of

0:43.6

moves in this market, we will tell you about the latest buying and selling from the 13F

0:49.3

filings. Let's begin with the markets, though, as the NASDAQ does look to extend

0:53.2

yesterday's gains after snapping that four-session losing streak.

0:57.0

More importantly, Jim, though it's good to have you back after kind of a long absence, almost a week and a half.

1:01.4

Yeah, I had some eye surgery. I'm back. I can't see you, but it's great to have both of you.

1:07.6

Carl? When did you switch side? It used to be, look, I've been paying attention to it.

1:13.6

Obviously, when you have a nine-day losing street for Amazon, after a quarter that was panned,

1:19.6

when you have in video, yesterday was a big reversal in video open.

1:22.6

I was telling my wife, because I'm actually home with her, she had a knee replacement.

1:26.6

The two of us really get along incredibly well when I can't see and she can't walk.

1:30.6

And what was amazing was she said, what's new? I said, oh, nothing. She goes, oh, Invidia? I said, yeah, down two. Because she knows nothing means Nvidia means nothing good. Now, the thing that I liked about Invidia was that at the end of the day,

1:44.4

David, I'm going to put this view as being seminal.

1:47.0

Okay.

1:48.0

I'm going to put this view as being seminal.

1:47.0

Okay.

1:48.0

I'm ready.

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