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Squawk on the Street

Volatility from AI to the Fed, Bitcoin Extends Sell-Off, Lilly Hits $1T Valuation 11/21/25

Squawk on the Street

CNBC

Business, News, Investing

4.1567 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Carl Quintanilla, Jim Cramer and David Faber explored how investors should navigate this volatile market. AI valuation jitters sparked a Thursday sell-off — erasing a rally fueled by Nvidia's blowout quarter and upbeat guidance. Stocks moved higher after New York Fed President John Williams said he sees room for a near-term interest rate cut. You'll want to hear Cramer's reaction to Williams' comments. Bitcoin fell below $82,000, putting it on track for its worst month since 2022. Also in focus: Eli Lilly hits a $1 trillion market cap for the first time, commodities under pressure in wake of tariffs, "Faber Report" on Netflix, Comcast and Paramount Skydance submitting bids for Warner Bros. Discovery. 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 moving insight and analysis join Jim Kramer, David Faber, and me, Carl Kintenea, on the opening bell hour of CNBC Squawk on the Street.

0:08.0

Good Friday morning, welcome to Squawk on the Street. I'm Carl Kintenea with Jim Kramer, David Faber, post 9 of the New York Stock Exchange.

0:14.0

Coming off the wildest day of trading since that April tariff shock, futures finding some relief here, as New York Fed President William says,

0:21.2

there's still room to cut rates, quote, in the near term.

0:24.9

Bitcoin does bounce after approaching 80K.

0:28.0

Our roadmap begins with the wild swings rocking investors this week.

0:31.1

InVidia, of course, wiping out almost $400 billion in market cap.

0:35.0

We'll talk about what investors do from here.

0:36.9

Plus, crypto's continued to get hit. Bitcoin is down more than 30% from its recent highs.

0:41.9

It is heading for what would be its worst month since the crypto collapse of 2022.

0:47.6

And we got a lot of Fed speak this morning as well, rates, inflation, of course, the focus

0:51.7

where policymakers now stand on that potential rate cut in December.

0:56.7

Yeah.

0:58.1

Let's begin with the markets after yesterday's stunning reversal to the downside, Jim.

1:02.0

We haven't seen reversals of that magnitude, but maybe a few times in the last three years.

1:07.1

Yeah, I got to take it. I mean, it's a terrible situation.

1:09.6

When you have that so-called island reversal, which just opens up thing and people come in, they tend to be wanting to chase that rally, thinking that there's a bottom, and they've just been eviscerated, particularly if they used any sort of margin. We have a lot of 2x, 3x stuff going on that we don't even talk about. People who are making leverage bets, maybe they don't even know they're making leverage

1:30.8

bets. And then, David, the immersion of what's happened to Bitcoin is really incredible.

1:36.8

What is it indicative of? What is it, and is it reflective of just a retail investor that

1:42.5

somehow- It's the end of the year of magical investing.

1:46.8

All that stuff.

1:47.7

I mean, look, they're all up today.

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