Opening Bell: December 17, 2025
CNBC Television· 2025-12-17 15:08
celebrating the IPO and Medline provider of medical surgical products, biggest of the year, CEO on earlier today. We got some volume in the room today, Joe. >> I LIKE THAT. I LIKE EXCITEMENT AND SUBSTANCE.Uh these are this is an interesting company. It's I like a deal that's not priced well above and goes crazy. Uh but it's also, let's not forget, a PE deal.They're they're they need these deals to come public and they have to have some winners. >> They do. Obviously, typically in a PE deal, you will raise m ...
Medline CEO on IPO: This is the right time for us to expand our voice
CNBC Television· 2025-12-17 14:43
Joining us right now first on CNBC is Medline CEO Jim Bole. Good morning to you. >> Good morning.>> Congratulations. This been this has been a quite a road for you to get to to this point. Uh why go public now.What's the what's what's the thinking in terms of where you came from and where you are right now. >> And as you know, we've been a private company for 58 years. Um with 58 years of consecutive growth, uh we just feel like this is the right time for us to kind of expand our voice.Historically, we've d ...
LIVE: President Trump addresses the nation
Yahoo Finance· 2025-12-17 14:43
LIVE: President Trump addresses the nation About Yahoo Finance: Yahoo Finance provides free stock ticker data, up-to-date news, portfolio management resources, comprehensive market data, advanced tools, and more information to help you manage your financial life. - Get the latest news and data at finance.yahoo.com - Download the Yahoo Finance app on Apple (https://apple.co/3Rten0R) or Android (https://bit.ly/3t8UnXO) - Follow Yahoo Finance on social: X: http://twitter.com/YahooFinance Instagram: https://www ...
Cramer's Mad Dash: Apple
CNBC Television· 2025-12-17 14:42
Back to Squawk on the Street. Time now for a mad dash. Of course, seven minutes before we get started with trading here at the New York Stock Exchange.Let's talk a bit about Apple. >> Right. Okay.Refreshing. Uh two pieces. One by Morgan Stanley.The other by Ben Rice at Melius talking about Well, here's one that the the price target too low. That's Morgan Stanley. They are taking that up to three uh 33.What. 335 from 315. >> Okay.But uh the most important thing I like Melius would just say is listen you want ...
Certainty of cable network spin off is a big plus for Netflix in WBD deal: Lightshed's Greenfield
CNBC Television· 2025-12-17 14:23
Joining us right now is Rich Greenfield, Lightshed Partners. Uh you've probably now had some opportunity to go through uh the document that Warner Brothers put out. You've seen what Netflix had to say about it.Which in your mind is the better deal, Rich. Putting aside whether we get to a bidding war, which I'm sure we will, but or or we may at least right now. >> I mean, I don't even think it's close, Andrew.I mean, think about the things that you learned in this document. I mean, just right off the bat, th ...
Billionaire CRE developer issues a warning on data center finance
CNBC Television· 2025-12-17 14:07
The thing that I can't quite square is the data center play and um and I know you you've talked to some of my friends about that in the past. Um I I look at a I look at a data center um that's $10 billion, right? First of all, there haven't been any exits above, you know, four or five billion. Um you haven't seen comp, so that worries me quite a bit. Then I see large uh technology companies, the largest companies on the planet with $4 trillion market cap saying I don't want to own this asset. I don't want t ...
‘Every word is on tape’: Vanity Fair reporter says ‘everybody was on board’ for Wiles interviews
MSNBC· 2025-12-17 14:04
And we begin this hour with our top story this morning. The stunning Vanity Fair interviews with President Trump's chief of staff Susie Wilds. They've prompted a seemingly coordinated allout pushback effort from the White House in the piece. Wilds gives candid answers about the president, his terms so far, as well as those in and around his administration. Wilds told Vanity Fair Trump has an alcoholic's personality. Though we will note that the president doesn't drink. She said J. D. Vance's conversion from ...
Labor market is telling us we should continue cutting rates, says Fed Governor Chris Waller
CNBC Television· 2025-12-17 14:02
start uh chairman. No, Governor Waller. Let me just call me Chris. >> Chris.Okay. Chris. Um let me start with uh the uh jobs data we got yesterday, which I think is uh people are wondering how uh the Federal Reserve is processing and how you're personally processing this data here.We had a tick up to the unemployment rate at 4.6%. Uh return to job growth in November after job losses in October. What's the state of the labor market in your opinion.Well, earlier this summer when the jobs numbers were looking ...
Fed's Waller: Will 'absolutely' emphasize importance of the central bank's independence to Trump
CNBC Television· 2025-12-17 14:02
you're going to uh be meeting with the president later today. And first of all, yeah, it's what that we reported that. Um I want to thank you for continuing to keep your appointment at this for this conversation, which other people might have otherwise.Uh but um I'd like to say the president called me into a pre-in, but that's not precisely what happened. The president has said that he thinks he ought to have a say in interest rates. Um I imagine he might say that to you. I wonder if you might share your re ...
Building LEGO’s Most Expensive Set Ever: The Star Wars Death Star
CNET· 2025-12-17 14:01
Thirst trap stormtrooper. >> That's no moon. This is the $1,000 Star Wars Lego Death Star.It is 9,000 pieces. First, let me bring in some reinforcements. Look at all those stickers.Six. Seven. So, we have six books.Seven or eight people helping out. So, let's get building. Francisco already started building.>> I don't have half a Chewbacca right now. >> Zach is just taking >> just open that with your mouth. >> Well, if anyone needs a brick separator, >> I never knew what those things were.You know, I've bro ...