Trump accounts were enacted via President Donald Trump's big beautiful bill in July and they are investing accounts for kids under the age of 18 and kids born between 2025 and 2028 are eligible for $1,000 seed money from the Treasury Department. In addition to the seed money, families can contribute up to $5,000 per year. There's been a growing number of employers who have also pledged to match the $1,000 seed money from the Trump administration for their employees.And then there's been philanthropists as w ...

So let's talk about this and more with our friend BFG Wealth Partners chief investment officer Peter Bookbar. Also a CNBC contributor. Peter again US markets have done great but to what do you attribute this.I mean Korea doubling in a year. >> Memory chips. >> As we entered 2025 the US market cap as a as a percent of total market cap got to the highest levels since World War II.north is 60%. With a >> of the global market >> of the global market cap with context that the US economy is about 25% of global GD ...

Yes, we are green across the board. So, we're trying to build on that big comeback on Friday. Joe, I said I laid it out.Dow's higher than 50k, S&P equal weight record high. And Edard Denny says you ain't seen nothing yet. He says Dow 70K by 2029.Dow theory remains bullish. the delivery side of the economy, the transports. He says that's confirming that the production side of the economy, the industrials, that the market is still in growth story mode.Well, we tried to speak to that throughout last week as yo ...

Let's bring in Barry Bannister. He's the chief equity strategist at Seiffl. Barry, it's great to have you and and I don't know if if this is part of a broader macro case or a Bitcoin specific kind of move that jumps out to you after a lot of the trading damage we've seen.>> Yeah, Bitcoin is is not digital gold. Uh when you think about gold when it does well and when it does best historically, it's because of higher thanex expected inflation with lower growth, stackflation basically. But Bitcoin really behav ...

Alphabet is tapping the debt markets, looking to raise about $20 billion in a bond sale. Is also considering a hundred-year bond as part of that. It's the second big tech company to tap the markets this year after Oracle issued 25 billion of debt just a week ago.Tech giants are leaning on debt to fund massive infrastructure as demand for AI compute explodes. The hyperscalers, as they're called, are expected to pour more than $630 billion into AI this year alone. Even as returns, well, we'll see if they can ...

AI agents aren't just writing code anymore, they're building the infrastructure behind it. Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi breaks down what he's seeing across 20k enterprise customers: vibe coding going mainstream, the collapse of traditional SaaS, and why his company just hit $5.4 billion in revenue growing 65% a year. This is what the AI economy actually looks like under the hood. ...

Dear Jabbosa joins us now with Data Brick CEO Ali Godsy in today's tech check. Deerra, >> thank you Kelly and hi Ali, it's nice to see you. Um, now the number that jumped out to me in this release this morning, it wasn't just the funding.It was actually this 80% number of databases on your platform. They're now built by AI agents. So what does that tell us about what's actually happening inside of your customers workflows right now.Yeah, I think actually one thing that people don't look at is uh when we're ...

And we're back on halftime. I'm Mackenzie Seagalis with your ETF edge. The recent hard slide in major cryptocurrencies has investors re-examining the entire ecosystem, including the ETFs that track them.Instruments tied to digital assets were expected to be a major source of innovation and expansion for the ETF industry in 2026. Now, that's all in question. Joining me is Will Rin, founder and CEO of Granite Shares.Well, of course there's the general riskoff mentality happening here, but is there more that d ...

Bring in show music, please. >> This is SquawkPod and I'm CNBC producer Cameron Costa. On today's episode, The Morning After, breaking down a Super Bowl with super costly ads.I think this was the first Super Bowl where people were really talking about AI >> and painting America's economic future with director of the president's National Economic Council and one-time Federal Reserve chair contender Kevin Hasset. >> I absolutely believe that we're on an uptick that's significant. I think that the open questio ...

Let's bring in Michael Canterowitz, chief investment strategist for Piper Sandler. I mean, we're we're climbing these these worry spots around overinvestment in AI and around software disruption in AI and around weaker job growth. Michael, how h how does the risk reward look to you from here.>> Yeah, we're we're still constructive on equities. I think why we're climbing these worries, you know, that the macro data and the breadth of earnings data are the ladder that is helping us climb a lot of these concer ...