meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Squawk on the Street

Trump Tariffs and the Sell-Off, Target Warns, China Pain for Tesla 3/4/25

Squawk on the Street

CNBC

News, Business, Investing

4.1567 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Carl Quintanilla, Jim Cramer and David Faber explored how to navigate this market environment, with President Trump's tariffs against Canada, Mexico and China going into effect -- news that extended Monday's sell-off. The anchors reacted to what Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told CNBC about a trade reset in wake of the tariffs. Also in focus: Target sees tariffs impacting Q1 profits and CEO Brian Cornell says price hikes are likely days away, Best Buy tumbles, Tesla shares extend their slump as sales of its China-made EVs slide, Nvidia and the "Mag 7 blues." Squawk on the Street Disclaimer

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Market Moving Insight and Analysis joined Jim Kramer, David Faber, and me, Carl Kintanilla, on the opening bell hour of CNBC Squawk on the Street.

0:08.7

Good Tuesday morning, welcome to Squawk on the Street. I'm Carl Kintanaia with Jim Kramer, David Faber, at Post 9 of the New York Stock Exchange.

0:14.5

Futures do lose some earlier gains as tariffs are now officially in effect.

0:19.3

China retaliates, bonds rally, as now some retailers,

0:22.6

like Target and Best Buy tell us when we can expect prices to rise.

0:26.6

Our roadmap begins with the President's tariffs against Canada, Mexico and China, but Beijing and Ottawa are retaliating.

0:33.6

Also ahead, we'll keep following what's been tough, Tesla's rough year, at least for the stock.

0:38.6

There's a sharp drop now in the EVs it makes in China in terms of sales in that market, and that's weighing on the stock this morning.

0:46.2

Also talk a bit about Target, which is warning about the impact of tariffs on profits.

0:50.9

That news is overshadowing quarterly results.

0:53.5

Those results did beat estimates. Let's begin with the markets on profits. That news is overshadowing. Quarterly results, those results did beat estimates.

0:56.7

Let's begin with the markets on track for a lower open and the president's tariffs now, in effect,

1:01.0

following yesterday's sell-off. Jim, we do have the response from China and to some degree Canada.

1:06.7

Shinebaum in Mexico says we'll learn more from her on Sunday.

1:10.4

Right. Look, I think, well, just to see, there's just vast confusion. No one knows. I mean, the auto makers don't know what this is going to mean. The packaged goods companies don't know what's mean when it comes from another country. There's no clarity whatsoever. Anyone who thinks that there's clarity, it's just completely wrong. I like Howard Luddick. I've've known for years. I mean, he's got some instances about autos. But it isn't like they've said, okay, look, here's the schedule, here's the tar. Like when you were in Europe and they did Brexit, you got the schedule, you got the tariff. He said, okay, I owe this. They haven't given us anything. We don't know what we own what we don't know. We don't know where it's paid. We don't know if it isn't paid. Do we owe them? Who owes it? Does the buyer owe it? I mean, the lack of any thought about this, David, is stunning. It is. This is a huge amount of money involved. Potentially, yeah. It's also, it goes beyond that, I think, and obviously we've talked about uncertainty.

2:02.7

I mean, we talk about it always every day for decades. You talk about it. But it is higher now.

2:08.7

And, you know, the conversations that I'm having, it's not just, all right, trying to understand and figure this out.

2:14.1

As you say, it's very much opaque. But it's also, well, will it be in effect

2:17.8

in 10 days? Will it be in effect in 30 days? Will it be reversed? Will it be increased? I think that

2:24.0

raises the level of uncertainty, which is reflected in a premium coming out of stocks to a certain

2:29.8

extent or a higher risk premium, if you want to call it that. And then you even extend it beyond that to things like mergers and acquisitions. You know, I'll have conversations with people as well, Jim, and I'll talk about, well, they'll say, well, that company might make sense to buy that company. I'll say, yeah, but that's a foreign company. You think that deal will be allowed? I don't know. Maybe it will. Maybe it won't. But again, it adds to this overall sense. Well, shouldn't you at a certain point just say, okay, look, if it's done in the 50 states, I want to, it should get a premium and everything else should get a discount because they can't figure it out. I mean, I can tell you, I mean, if you take a look, this is a good one. I don't know if you guys drink outlaw beer. Okay. Outlaws made next to course.

3:09.5

They decided that enough is enough.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from CNBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of CNBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.