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President Trump dials into Squawk Box for an extended conversation spanning the looming Fed Chair nominations, tariffs, and the U.S. economy. He confirms that Kevin Warsh, Kevin Hassett, and two others are in the running to lead the central bank after Jerome Powell’s departure, but Treasury Scott Bessent will stay in his current role. While many trade negotiations are still in progress, President...

President Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer on Friday, after the agency reported a weak jobs report for the month of July . In the aftermath, the White House’s National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett discusses the decision and the concerned backlash it prompted. Elaine Chao served as Labor Secretary for eight years under President George W. Bush; she...

The 5 things you need to know before the stock market opens today: Tesla’s board has approved a 96 million share compensation for Elon Musk, President Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney may meet over the next few days, OPEC+ will raise oil production next month, The Athletic is reporting that ESPN will acquire NFL Red Zone, and Marvel’s “Fantastic Four” saw a 66% drop in box office sale...

President Trump has ratcheted up tariffs for dozens of countries set to take effect next week. Apple reported its greatest revenue growth in years , Microsoft’s market cap topped $4 trillion after its earnings report, and Amazon’s disappointing earnings forecast overshadowed its solid results. Software design company Figma more than tripled in its NYSE debut ; bankers and CEOs are interpreting thi...

The 5 things you need to know before the stock market opens today: shares of Coinbase and Roku are both tumbling after the companies reported quarterly results, but each stock is still up over 50% and 30% for the year, respectively. Nvidia has denied that its chips have “back doors,” amid scrutiny from Chinese regulators, CSX is reportedly speaking with Goldman Sachs about buying a rival, and shar...

After the U.S. struck a trade deal with South Korea, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent explains that negotiation and the ongoing talks with China after the administration’s two-day meeting with Beijing officials in Stockholm. Sec. Bessent discusses his team’s frustration with India’s negotiating team and the “2-dimensional chess” match that is the China-U.S. relationship. The day after the Federal...

The morning after the FDA’s vaccine regulator Dr. Vinay Prasad announced his resignation , FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary shares the agency’s position on the measles vaccine, Sarepta’s Duchenne therapy , and the addictive kratom-derived compound OH-7. Booking Holdings CEO Glenn Fogel discusses the impact of geopolitics on travel to the U.S. While Canadians and Europeans are still traveling, the...

The 5 things you need to know before the stock market opens today: AI startup Anthropic is nearing a deal to raise as much as $5 billion in new funding. SoFi Technologies under pressure after announcing a $1.5 billion share offering, video game maker Electronic Arts’ F1 racing game is fueling growth, Happy Gilmore 2 had a big weekend on Netflix and the Hess Truck’s back and it’s better than ever....

After a gunman killed 4 people in a New York City office building in midtown on Monday, corporate America is evaluating office security and employee safety. Former Boeing chief security officer and current chief security officer at Corporate Security Advisors Dave Komendat discusses corporate safety measures and the next steps in the NYPD’s investigation of the tragedy. In Stockholm, the U.S. is c...

Now that President Trump has struck a trade deal with the EU , attention shifts to Stockholm, where U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer is participating in trade negotiations with China . He explains the White House’s strategy in those meetings and after them, while CNBC’s Eamon Javers, also in Sweden, covers the talks from outside the room. Amid mounting pressure on the Federal Reserve, form...

The 5 things you need to know before the stock market opens today: Boeing expects its St. Louis area workers to strike next week, China has unveiled its global AI action plan, Union Pacific could be nearing a deal to buy Norfolk Southern, a subsidiary of Allianz U.S. was hacked, and Disney and Marvel brought in a total $118 million from the “Fantastic Four: First Steps” opening weekend.    Squawk...

After President Trump’s eventful and rare visit to the Federal Reserve building with Fed Chair Powell, OMB Director Russell Vought discusses the building’s renovations and the President’s concerns about the central bank’s budget management. Vought visited the construction site alongside the President, and shares his hope that the project finishes quickly. Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) is aiming to redist...

The 5 things you need to know before the stock market opens today: OpenAI reportedly plans to release GPT-5 next month, Elon Musk’s Starlink suffered one of its biggest-ever global outages, Schwab has announced a stock buyback, health insurer Centene stock is plunging after its second quarter report, and the Astronomer HR executive caught on the Coldplay concert kiss cam has left the company, days...

After the hosts of the All In Podcast invited tech and government leaders to an AI summit in DC, President Trump signed three executive orders on artificial intelligence . White House AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks discusses the President’s AI agenda and the roles regulation and energy infrastructure play in American AI dominance. Plus, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is running for NYC Mayo...

Joe Kernen, Becky Quick, and Andrew Ross Sorkin remember the late Larry Bossidy, a longtime friend of Squawk Box.  The former Chairman and CEO of Honeywell was a key leader at three Fortune 100 companies. In his 90 years, he made a lasting impact on the CNBC audience and the Squawk Box anchor team.  Hear his last interview on Squawk Box, in 2021, here .  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. S...

Thanks to a $112 million acquisition, prediction market Polymarket is one step closer to operating in the U.S. Founder Shayne Coplan discusses the betting markets and his vision for the global financial ecosystem and its regulation . CEO of Beast Industries Jeff Housenbold joins Beast Games Champion Jeffrey Allen to discuss the Beast empire–YouTube, chocolates, and all. The two discuss the brand’s...

The 5 things you need to know before the stock market opens today: Shares of Texas Instruments are down sharply pre-market, Elon Musk’s xAI wants to raise money to access Nvidia chips, sales of Teslas in California are down, Hershey deals with the high price of cocoa, and Jeff Bezos’ made a visit to the White House   Squawk Box is hosted by Joe Kernen, Becky Quick and Andrew Ross Sorkin.  Follow S...

The only person to have held both the Treasury Secretary and the Fed Chair positions, Janet Yellen weighs in on America’s economy and the pressure President Trump is putting on sitting Fed chair Powell . She also discusses stablecoins and the inflation risks of politically-driven monetary policy. Plus, OpenAI and Oracle are expanding their Stargate project , and a report on the report about Berksh...

Less than two weeks out from the August 1 tariff deadline , Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent discusses progress on trade deals with the EU, Japan, and Indonesia. Sec. Bessent also comments on monetary policy, including reports that he tried to talk President Trump out of firing Fed Chair Jerome Powell. He calls for an examination of the entire Federal Reserve institution. Robert Frank reports on t...

The 5 things you need to know before the stock market opens today: Block is heading into the S&P 500, Alaska Airlines is back in the air after an IT outage, China’s exports of rare earth magnets to the U.S. jumped in June, Trump administration officials are planning to tour renovations at the headquarters of the Federal Reserve, and the viral “Coldplay kiss-cam” moment that broke the internet.   ...

Once the Housing and Urban Development Secretary under President Obama, Shaun Donovan now runs a nonprofit devoted to increasing housing supply and advancing equity. In a conversation about America’s housing affordability crisis , Sec. Donovan explains how the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit in President Trump’s spending bill incentivizes private investment. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) touts h...

The 5 things you need to know before the stock market opens today: Chevron has prevailed in its mediation with Exxon over oil assets in Guyana, Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell has officially responded to White House concerns about Fed building renovations, Amazon is laying off some cloud computing staffers, and the Commerce Department will impose anti-dumping duties on graphite imported from Chin...

President Trump has said he won’t attempt to fire sitting Fed Chair Jerome Powell , but change is coming to the central bank regardless. On Wall Street and in Washington, names floated for the next Federal Reserve chair have included current NEC director Kevin Hassett and former Fed governor Kevin Warsh. In an extended interview, Kevin Warsh calls for a regime change at the bank, positing a revise...

Gary Cohn was National Economic Council Director in the first Trump administration, and now he’s weighing in on U.S. inflation data and the nation’s future monetary policy. If it were up to him, Cohn says he’d try cutting rates–just a little. Ben Gilbert & David Rosenthal are hosts of Acquired, a podcast boasting interviews with guests like Nvidia’s Jensen Huang , Mark Zuckerberg, and Howard Schul...

The 5 things you need to know before the stock market opens today: Federal investigations into prediction betting site Polymarket have been closed, a procedural vote on the $9 rescissions package passed in the Senate, SpaceX is planning an insider share sale, Tesla’s top North American sales executive has left the company, and a robot calls balls and strikes at baseball’s midsummer classic.   Squa...