5 Things to Know Before the Opening Bell 6/20/25
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President Trump saying he's going to decide within the next two weeks whether the U.S. will get involved in the Middle East conflict. Iran's foreign minister set to meet the foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany. That's going to happen in Switzerland today. Meantime, South Bank looking to partner with Taiwan Semiconductor to construct a trillion dollar industrial complex there.

That's in Arizona. And they're going to be trying to build robots and artificial intelligence there. That's going to a Bloomberg report. Meantime, Microsoft considering halting negotiations with OpenAI about the future of their partnership. That's if the two sides can agree on some key issues like the size of Microsoft's future stake in OpenAI. And that's from the Financial Times.

Meantime, a report saying Microsoft now planning to cut several thousand jobs. That's just going to be in the next several weeks in sales and some other teams. And a SpaceX Starship rocket exploded at the Starbase facility in Texas. That happened on Wednesday during a routine testing in preparation for a launch on social media. SpaceX described it as a major anomaly. And so all personnel are safe and accounted for. Elon Musk also responding on his platform X, writing,

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