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Squawk on the Street

Trump Ramps Up Tariffs, TikTok Deal, the Fed's Preferred Inflation Gauge 9/26/25

Squawk on the Street

CNBC

Investing, Business, News

4.1567 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Carl Quintanilla and David Faber led off the show with stocks affected by President Trump's announcement of new tariffs on imported pharmaceuticals, household furnishings and trucks. The anchors also discussed the president's executive order to approve a TikTok deal and what it could mean for both the U.S. and China. Jim Cramer joined the program after his appearance on NBC's "Today" show, where he discussed his new book, "How To Make Money In Any Market." Also in focus: Core PCE -- the Fed's preferred inflation gauge -- comes in as expected, YouTube TV-NBCUniversal carriage dispute, Evercore hikes Apple price target. Disclosure: Comcast is the parent company of NBCUniversal, which owns CNBC. Versant would become the new parent company of CNBC upon Comcast’s planned spinoff of Versant. 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.

0:11.3

Good Friday morning. Welcome to Squawk on the Street. I'm Carl Kingtonia with David Faber here at Post 9 of the New York Stock Exchange.

0:16.5

Kramer's going to join us in a little bit after his appearance on the Today Show this morning, where he is talking about his new book, How to Make Money in any market.

0:24.6

Speaking of which, futures trying to bounce after three days down for Dow S&P NASDAQ,

0:29.6

we are on shutdown watch, got some new tariff announcements, some relief from Core PCE,

0:34.6

which was in line year on year.

0:36.6

Our roadmap begins with the return of tariffs.

0:38.7

The president in a series of late-night social posts calling for new levies on drugs, kitchen

0:44.4

cabinets, heavy trucks.

0:46.3

Plus, we do have a TikTok deal.

0:47.9

The president certainly saying China has signed off on a plan that would give the U.S.

0:51.8

majority ownership, control the app's algorithm.

0:54.5

You had the executive order signed yesterday. Chinese, though, are still silent, at least

0:59.8

officially on the news. And we're keeping an eye on media, broadly speaking here. Warner Brothers

1:05.4

got another downgrade this morning. This, of course, is we continue to focus on the possibility

1:10.6

of a paramount bid there.

1:12.7

And, by the way, NBC Universal warning that YouTube TV subscribers, well, they may have a possible blackout coming, Carl.

1:20.7

Let's begin, though, with the president's new tariff announcements coming out last night, talk about some of the stock action that's happening in response.

1:28.4

We got Wayfair, I think, R.H., William Sonoma, David, down three to four percent.

1:34.1

Kitchen cabinets, as we mentioned, some bathroom vanities, and an increased sort of rhetorical

1:41.4

reliance on national security. Some argue that maybe their administration's trying to hedge whether or not the Supreme Court

1:49.0

eventually comes out against the emergency tariffs.

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