Trump Tariff Delay Rally, Musk-Mania, Salesforce's AI-Focused Deal 5/27/25
Squawk on the Street
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🗓️ 27 May 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's Jim Kramer here. You're listening to the opening bell of CBC's Squawk on the Street. Don't miss a minute of the action. Good Tuesday morning. Welcome to Squawk on the Street. I'm Carl Kinkson here with Jim Kramer, David Faber, Post 9 of the New York Stock Exchange. Multiple tailwinds for the Bulls today, as the president says he'll delay those 50% tariffs on the EU. Meantime, some speculation Bank of Japan will trim some long-term bond issuance. |
| 0:24.1 | Yields lower across the globe are 30 years back below five. |
| 0:27.4 | A roadmap begins with the president delaying that threat of tariffs on the EU until July, |
| 0:31.9 | as the block agrees to ramp up trade talks with this country. |
| 0:35.6 | Also ahead, M&A meets AI. |
| 0:37.4 | Salesforce agrees to acquire Informatica. |
| 0:39.5 | It's a deal worth about $8 billion in terms of the equity involved. Plus, we got a lot of news |
| 0:44.6 | involving Elon Musk, weakness, of course, in Tesla sales overseas, particularly in Europe, |
| 0:49.6 | to his ex post stating he will be super focused on the companies that he owns for controls. |
| 0:56.3 | Let's begin with the markets as we kick off this holiday short and trading week. Jim, |
| 1:00.0 | you were impressed by futures, but you said maybe they're up so much. It's hard to buy right here. |
| 1:04.7 | Yeah, I mean, look, we come in and it's just a radical reversion. Think about where we were Friday. |
| 1:10.1 | We did feel that the president got |
| 1:12.6 | very angry. We felt that other than the deal that we're going to talk about with Nippon Steel, |
| 1:18.0 | there really was nothing positive. We started hearing that the Senate's going to disagree with the |
| 1:22.9 | House bill. Obviously, everybody's concerned about the tenure just, you know, going off. |
| 1:30.8 | Then suddenly wake up to a possible deal? |
| 1:35.0 | I mean, a deal. |
| 1:36.2 | That changes everything. |
| 1:37.6 | We just need one deal to have everyone fall in line. |
| 1:41.0 | And then you also have, not to be too political about it, but David, you get Putin as |
| 1:46.9 | bad guy, then suddenly Europe has a reason to make a deal. Because, listen, you sell us arms. |
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