{"id":367721,"date":"2025-12-24T15:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T15:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/367721\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T15:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T15:35:09","slug":"economy-grows-chip-tariff-delay-new-sp-500-record-and-more-in-morning-squawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/367721\/","title":{"rendered":"Economy grows, chip tariff delay, new S&P 500 record and more in Morning Squawk"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter.\u00a0Subscribe here<\/a>\u00a0to receive future editions in your inbox.<\/p>\n

Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day:<\/p>\n

1. Shop ’til you drop<\/p>\n

A person carries shopping bags during Black Friday shopping at Garden State Plaza on November 28, 2025 in Paramus, New Jersey. <\/p>\n

Eduardo Munoz Alvarez | Getty Images<\/p>\n

The U.S. economy expanded<\/a> more than economists expected, the Commerce Department said in a government shutdown-delayed report.<\/p>\n

Here’s what to know:<\/p>\n

The U.S. economy grew 4.3% in the third quarter, according to an initial reading.Consumers appear resilient, as spending expanded 3.5%<\/a> in the third quarter after rising 2.5% in the second quarter.The Commerce Department’s initial read of economic growth over the summer comes after a consumer sentiment<\/a> report shows more pessimism about the economy.Holiday retail spending<\/a> rose 4.2% this season, driven by e-commerce and electronics, according to a preliminary Visa<\/a> report. Meanwhile, 37% of Americans racked up holiday debt<\/a> this year, at an average of $1,223 \u2014 up from $1,181 last year,\u00a0LendingTree<\/a> said. The GDP report was delayed almost two months because of the government shutdown and was enough to alarm investors into thinking that the Fed is less likely to lower interest rates<\/a> in early 2026.Follow live market updates here.<\/a>2. All is calm <\/p>\n

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Nov. 12, 2025 in New York City.<\/p>\n

Spencer Platt | Getty Images<\/p>\n

Stock futures and Treasury yields were little changed Wednesday morning after the S&P 500<\/a> hit another record as investors shook off concerns that stronger-than-expected GDP growth<\/a> would chill the Fed’s plans to lower interest rates. Tech stocks like\u00a0Alphabet<\/a>,\u00a0Nvidia<\/a>,\u00a0Broadcom<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Amazon<\/a> buoyed the market.<\/p>\n

Precious metals held onto their luster, continuing a record rally<\/a>. Across the pond, BP<\/a> agreed to sell a 65% stake in its lubricants business Castrol to Stonepeak for $6 billion, months after the oil giant\u00a0sought a buyer<\/a>\u00a0for the unit.<\/p>\n

U.S. stock markets will close at 1 p.m. ET for Christmas Eve, while bond markets are set to close at 2 p.m.<\/p>\n

3. Degrees of separation<\/p>\n

The University of Maryland<\/p>\n

The Washington Post | The Washington Post | Getty Images<\/p>\n

The Trump<\/a> administration said it will start garnishing<\/a> the wages of\u00a0student loan<\/a>\u00a0borrowers in default in early January. It would mark the first time student borrowers’ paychecks have been at risk since the beginning of the Covid pandemic, when collections were halted.<\/p>\n

Starting the week of Jan. 7, the Education Department expects around 1,000 defaulted student loan borrowers to receive notices of administrative wage garnishment, a spokesperson said. More than 5 million student loan borrowers are currently in default, the Education Department\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0earlier this year.<\/p>\n

4. China chip duty delay<\/p>\n

People work at a semiconductor manufacturer of automobile chips in Binzhou city in east China’s Shandong province Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Future Publishing | Getty Images<\/p>\n

The U.S. plans to increase tariffs on Chinese semiconductor imports in June 2027<\/a>, the Trump administration said\u00a0in a Federal Register filing<\/a>. Until then, the initial tariff rate on semiconductor imports from China will be zero for 18 months, according to the filing from the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.<\/p>\n

The agency said in an investigation that started a year ago that China is engaging in unfair trade practices in the industry. The decision to delay new tariffs for at least 18 months signals that the Trump administration is seeking to cool any trade hostilities between the U.S. and China.<\/p>\n

5. At your ServiceNow<\/p>\n

Signage outside the ServiceNow headquarters in Santa Clara, California, US, on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025. <\/p>\n

David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images<\/p>\n

Enterprise software giant ServiceNow<\/a>\u00a0will acquire cybersecurity startup\u00a0Armis<\/a>\u00a0in a cash deal valued at $7.75 billion, part of a plan to boost its cybersecurity capabilities in the age of\u00a0artificial intelligence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“ServiceNow will have the only AI control tower that drives workflow, action and business outcomes across all of these environments,” CEO Bill McDermott told CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

The Daily Dividend<\/p>\n

Self-driving in the dark? We’re getting there.\u00a0Alphabet-owned Waymo<\/a> said it’s updating its fleet<\/a> so its vehicles are better prepared to respond during future outages, days after a blackout in San Francisco caused Waymo to\u00a0pause<\/a>\u00a0its driverless car service.<\/p>\n

\u2014 CNBC’s Pia Singh, Annie Nova, Jessica Dickler, Luke Fountain, Samantha Subin, Kai Nicol-Schwarz, Jeff Cox, Fred Imbert, Kif Leswing and Ari Levy contributed to this report. Melodie Warner edited this edition. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter.\u00a0Subscribe here\u00a0to receive future editions in your inbox. Here are five key things…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[38080,1540,21993,44599,37246,28,122,177354,93533,5237,1072,12,120,1051,101,111240,113,37288,3319,112,109722,2914,5846,17000,3487,2474,117,5284,18030,14003,17001,21,31279,31723],"class_list":["post-367721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-alphabet-class-a","tag-amazon-com-inc","tag-boeing-co","tag-bp-plc","tag-broadcom-inc","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-dan-bongino","tag-darden-restaurants-inc","tag-delta-air-lines-inc","tag-donald-j-trump","tag-donald-trump","tag-dow-jones-industrial-average","tag-economic-events","tag-economy","tag-electronic-arts-inc","tag-investment-strategy","tag-jeff-cox","tag-joe-biden","tag-markets","tag-moore-threads-technology","tag-netflix-inc","tag-nike-inc","tag-norfolk-southern-corp","tag-nvidia-corp","tag-oracle-corp","tag-sp-500-index","tag-san-francisco","tag-servicenow-inc","tag-trump-media-and-technology-group-equty-warrants-exp-25th-mar-2029","tag-union-pacific-corp","tag-united-states","tag-visa-inc","tag-warner-bros-discovery-inc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}