very historic milestone. This week, the NATO allies committed to dramatically increase their defense spending to that 5% of GDP. Something that no one really thought possible.And they said, "You did it, sir. You did it." Well, I don't know if I did it, but I think I did. This will be known as the HEG Defense Commitment, which is pretty good, pretty appropriate. When the allies reach this number, it will add more than $1 trillion a year.Think of that 1 trillion per year to our common defense. And this is a m ...

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Five things to know ahead of today's opening bell. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant says that he believes the Senate is on track for a vote this Friday on President Trump's tax and spending bill. Yesterday, Bessant also predicted House and Senate Republicans would reach a deal on the salt deduction cap somewhere in the next 24 to 48 hours.Reports say Poly Market is close to raising $200 million in a funding round that would value the prediction market company at about a billion dollars. An investment platfo ...

the day you retire from basketball, every studio show is going to ask you to join their show. Would you consider doing that. Oh, for sure.Um, I've seen guys, you know, some of your peers gone through it. Uh, you know, a lot of XNBA guys who are behind the booth now, whether it's commentating, whether it's in studio, you've seen what Tom Brady's doing in, you know, Draymond's going to do it the day he retires, too. Draymond's already got Yeah.his path set up. I'm going be more patient, I think, about what wo ...

As we await President Trump's news conference at the NATO summit, let's get over to Megan Cassellar for more. Megan, hey guys, good morning. So, this is a news conference that will wrap up a very quick trip by the president to the Netherlands, spending less than 24 hours there for the NATO summit, but we do expect him any moment.He's had a series of pull aides this morning with the head of NATO, uh, the leader of the Netherlands. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zalinsky was meant to be on his bilateral schedul ...

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You're on the board of Bite Dance. We all want to know what's gonna happen to Tik Tok. What do you think.I used to be a director. Now I'm a board observer. So, it's a little different.Okay. Um I think Trump uh President Trump has u given three uh 90day extension that probably shows that he wants uh this to be solved and I hope that post tariffs uh things will be solved. I think in the US if there's two strong comp competitors, Facebook and Tik Tok is better than one and two competitors force each other to i ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is back Wednesday on Capitol Hill, this time speaking to the Senate banking committee as part of his semiannual monetary policy testimony. In his remarks Tuesday before the House Financial Services Committee, the central bank leader asserted that the Fed is "well positioned to wait" on interest rate policy as it watches the impact that tariffs will have on inflation. For access to live and exclusive video from CNBC subscribe to CNBC PRO: https://cnb.cx/42d859g » Subscribe ...

>> Welcome to Squawk Box. Welcome back to Squawk Box. We've got a huge lot a lot of things to cover, a lot of ground to cover with our next guest.We're very excited about it. The markets the fed is excited about private markets I some very provocative views about alphabet which by the way didn't make his fantastic 40 list and so much more. An exclusive with famed tech investor Philippe Lafont.He's the founder and portfolio manager of Co two. It's a tech hedge fund, private markets investor, $55 billion unde ...

Philippe Laffont, Coatue founder and portfolio manager, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the latest market trends, state of the 'Magnificent Seven', future of tech investing, his thoughts on bitcoin, state of the economy, impact of AI technology, who'll come on top in the AI arms race, the Fed's interest rate policy, future of TikTok, the NYC mayoral race, and more. ...