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Squawk on the Street

Trump and Powell, Musk-Altman Feud, Shopify Pres., SNL 50 at the NYSE 2/11/25

Squawk on the Street

CNBC

News, Business, Investing

4.1567 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Carl Quintanilla, Sara Eisen and Michael Santoli led off the show with market reaction to President Trump's 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum products, ahead of Fed Chair Powell's Tuesday testimony on Capitol Hill about the economy. The anchors also discussed the intensifying feud between Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman -- who rejected a Musk-led group's $97.4 billion offer to take control of OpenAI. Shopify President Harley Finkelstein discussed everything from earnings to the Kanye West/swastika controversy. "Saturday Night Live" original cast member Laraine Newman and current cast members Ego Nwodim and Heidi Gardner joined the program on the NYSE floor, after ringing the opening bell to celebrate the NBC show's 50th anniversary. Disclosure: NBC and CNBC are units of NBCUniversal Squawk on the Street Disclaimer

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0:00.0

It's Jim Kramer here. You're listening to the opening bell of CBC Squawk on the Street.

0:04.7

Don't miss a minute of the action.

0:13.4

Good Tuesday morning. Welcome to Squawk on the Street. I'm Carl Kington, Ayo,

0:16.4

Sarah Eisen, Mike Santoli, and Post-9 of the New York Stock Exchange. Kramer and Faber have the

0:20.4

morning off. Future's a bit red, 10-year back above four and a half. As the president signs those tariffs on steel and aluminum and the EU pledges retaliation, Powell's on the hill, there'll likely be a lot of questions about all of that. Our roadmap begins with Elon Musk, though, escalating his feud with Sam Altman and Open AI, making this $97 billion bid for control of the company. We've got the latest. Plus, Coca-Cola, the biggest gainer on the Dow this morning, easily topping earnings estimates on strong global demand. The company's chairman and CEO James Quincy will join us to discuss next hour. Also, shares of Shopify shares are moving higher in the pre-market, despite a weaker outlook.

0:57.3

We're going to discuss the quarter with Shopify's president, Harley Finkelstein.

1:01.5

It's a pretty good quarter across the board.

1:03.6

Let's begin, though, with the president's 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, and the Fed

1:08.5

share going to Capitol Hill to testify on the economy before

1:11.7

Senate banking today. Obviously, lots of buckets that lawmakers will quiz them about, but one might

1:17.0

be the effect of the tariffs would be retaliation, the prospect of even further industries

1:22.2

getting affected, and what that does to things like CAPEX intentions, which we've got to look at

1:26.2

today. And we don't expect him to really say anything as far as what it'll mean for Fed policy,

1:30.6

because that's been his posture and it's too soon to know.

1:34.0

Is it a one-off inflationary shock?

1:36.0

Is it something more prolonged?

1:37.4

Is it something the Fed would have to respond to?

1:39.5

These are all questions investors have, but he hasn't been able to, nor is willing,

1:44.0

to give any sort of answers

1:45.7

or speculation about what they might do. This is one of those interesting two days of testimony

1:52.5

where tomorrow, usually second day is very boring and he repeats himself, but tomorrow might

1:56.7

be more interesting because we get CPI out tomorrow morning, the inflationary number.

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