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Squawk on the Street

Tech Rebounds on Taiwan Semi/AI Trade, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Exclusive, Big Bank Earnings Wrap-up 1/15/26

Squawk on the Street

CNBC

Business, Investing, News

4.1567 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Carl Quintanilla, Jim Cramer and David Faber led off the show with the rebound in tech, sparked by Taiwan Semiconductor posting a Q4 earnings beat and boosting capital spending guidance thanks to strong AI demand. President Trump clearing the way for Nvidia H200 chip sales to China also lifted sentiment. In a CNBC Exclusive, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink joined the anchors at Post 9 and talked about issues including the Fed, AI and investing in America. They also discussed BlackRock's earnings beat and record assets of more than $14 trillion. Also in focus: Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are the last of the big banks to post earnings, oil prices fall on news involving Trump and Iran. Squawk on the Street Disclaimer

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0:00.0

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

0:08.0

Good Thursday morning, welcome to Squawk on the Street. I'm Carl Kintanaia, Jim Kramer's back.

0:12.0

David Faber here post-9 of the New York Stock Exchange. Big Tech looks to reclaim some losses on this barn burner profit and Kappex guy from Taiwan semi.

0:20.0

More relief as the president says he has no plans for now to fire J. Powell or attack Iran.

0:25.6

Oils down for the first time in about six days.

0:28.6

Our roadmap begins with this tech rally fueled by Taiwan Semi and the record results,

0:32.6

as the president does clear the way for NVIDIA to sell its chips to China, but with a massive surcharge.

0:38.4

We've got more earnings from Wall Street this morning. Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and BlackRock

0:43.5

leading that charge. BlackRock CEO Larry Finkel, will join us first on CNBC. The company reporting

0:48.7

record inflows, its assets under management now top $14 trillion.

1:02.6

And oil prices are down this after President Trump signals he may hold off on any attacks against Iran.

1:08.1

Let's begin with his rebound attack sparked by Taiwan Semi, getting a lift from this AI boom.

1:11.3

Company posts a 35% jump in quarterly profit.

1:15.7

Plans to boost CAPEX this year to as much as 56 billion.

1:20.0

Jim, we're seeing it today in ASML, Lamb, Sandisk, you name it.

1:20.8

It's really funny.

1:25.4

AISM moved faster than Taiwan Semi itself than the others caught up,

1:28.0

and a lot of firms upgraded to capital equipment stocks. But the actual Taiwan Semi called was amazing. And we're going to get a lot of talk

1:33.5

about what it means for applied materials and the research. It's good. But what the essence

1:38.0

of it was, you think there's a bubble? Have you talked to any of the clients? Do you know

1:43.6

that they can't get enough? Do you know that they can't get enough?

1:45.0

Do you know how much money they're making? We usually hear that they're spending too much and they're not getting returned.

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