Walmart Falls on Earnings, U.S.-EU Trade Details, Disney Launches New ESPN DTC Streaming Service 8/21/25
Squawk on the Street
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🗓️ 21 August 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's Jim Kramer here. You're listening to the opening bell of CnBC's Squawk on the Street. |
| 0:04.7 | Don't miss a minute of the action. |
| 0:07.8 | Good Thursday morning. Welcome to Squawk on the Street. I'm Carl Kintanio with David Faber, |
| 0:11.0 | Sarah Eisen at post-9 of the New York Stock Exchange. Kramer has the morning off. |
| 0:14.8 | S&P's eyeing a fifth consecutive day lower, something we've not seen since January. |
| 0:20.5 | As Jackson Hole kicks off, |
| 0:21.6 | September rate cut odds actually decline a little bit. Walmart says its own tariff-related costs |
| 0:26.6 | are rising. With each passing week, we'll get to all of it. Our roadmap begins with Walmart. |
| 0:31.6 | Shares under pressure after saying tariff costs continue to jump, but the retail giant is raising its outlook. |
| 0:36.6 | Plus, the U.S. and the European Union revealing new details about their trade deal, including tariffs on pharma and semiconductors. |
| 0:43.3 | And Disney's new ESPN flagship streaming service launches today. |
| 0:47.3 | What is at stake for the company, for its investors? |
| 0:50.3 | I'm going to have an exclusive with the CEO of Disney Bob Eiger and the chairman of ESPN. |
| 0:55.0 | Jimmy Petaro, that'll be in the next hour. |
| 0:58.0 | Let's begin with market reaction to Walmart's results and guidance. |
| 1:01.0 | COPS here pretty steady and solid in the fours. |
| 1:04.0 | Four, six is a beat. They raise their guidance for the year. |
| 1:07.0 | Some of the commentary coming out of the call, and I know you spoke to the company, |
| 1:10.0 | does sort of pivot around their own costs and how they expect it. for the year, some of the commentary coming out of the call, and I know you spoke to the company, |
| 1:17.9 | does sort of pivot around their own costs and how they expected to be increasing in Q3, Q4. |
| 1:22.0 | I mean, if you strip out a lot of one-offs, which is why you got the earnings missed, |
| 1:27.0 | they had, you know, increased insurance costs around labor and stuff like that, then it's very, it's solid growth. And actually, if you strip out all the one-offs, it's operating profit that's growing faster than sales. And the underlying sales trend is actually quite good. 4.6% U.S. comps. I mean, yes, they had a high bar, 1.5% transaction growth, ticket growth, 3.1%. And here, I I thought was the highlight, e-commerce growth, |
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