Squawk Box is a long-running CNBC business news television program that covers markets, finance, and crypto-related financial news, hosted by Joe Kernen, Becky Quick, and Andrew Ross Sorkin each weekday morning. Squawk Box's Twitter Score is 129 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #4,818 (top 1%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Squawk Box first aired on August 7, 1995 and remains on air, making it one of the longest-running morning business programs on American television. The program broadcasts from NASDAQ MarketSite, where it has been based since January 3, 2017. Carl Quintanilla and Mark Haines previously served as presenters on the program.
Squawk Box has featured extensive coverage of crypto markets and regulation, including interviews with Strategy executive chair Michael Saylor discussing bitcoin, and segments with SEC Chair Gary Gensler, who argued on the program that crypto is an outsized source of scams, frauds, and problems. Co-host Andrew Ross Sorkin interviewed former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried at the New York Times DealBook Summit following FTX's collapse, during which Bankman-Fried denied committing fraud.
Squawk Box has accumulated 1,108,559 followers as of August 2026 and has published 47,347 posts. The account has been mentioned by 981 accounts, with 8,215 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow Squawk Box include 414 founders, 93 angel investors, 238 influencers and 47 VCs. Among them are Michael Saylor, Anthony Pompliano, SBF, Chamath Palihapitiya, Raoul Pal and CL.