Of the office we begin with a tense situation in greece. The 10year note is sitting around 15 and have soared 60 this year. A referendum is set for sunday with greeces Prime Minister urging a no vote. Lets go live to athens chief International Correspondent Michelle Carusocabrera joins us there with i believe also the president of Athens Chamber of xlers commerce . Yeah, the chairman of the Hellenic Chamber of commerce, good to have you here. Excuse the music, there is is a small communist rally going on. Shall i call you camomrade . Michelle, this is a country of extremes. In the first century, existential comemunism has died 20, 25 years ago but here in greece it is rampant. You can hear them chanting. There you are. This is greece. We know that this crowd will vote no in sundays referendum they hate the euro they hate everything about euro et cetera. How do you think the vote will go on sunday . Im cautiously optimistic that we dont have a strong yes vote. Vast majority of greek peo
Of the office we begin with a tense situation in greece. The 10year note is sitting around 15 and have soared 60 this year. A referendum is set for sunday with greeces Prime Minister urging a no vote. Lets go live to athens chief International Correspondent Michelle Carusocabrera joins us there with i believe also the president of Athens Chamber of xlers commerce . Yeah, the chairman of the Hellenic Chamber of commerce, good to have you here. Excuse the music, there is is a small communist rally going on. Shall i call you camomrade . Michelle, this is a country of extremes. In the first century, existential comemunism has died 20, 25 years ago but here in greece it is rampant. You can hear them chanting. There you are. This is greece. We know that this crowd will vote no in sundays referendum they hate the euro they hate everything about euro et cetera. How do you think the vote will go on sunday . Im cautiously optimistic that we dont have a strong yes vote. Vast majority of greek peo
Good thursday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Carl quintanilla with Kayla Tausche at post 9. Our jon fortt live at the Consumer Electronics show in las vegas. A lot to come from jon later on this hour. Joining us at post 9 this morning, elevation partner cofounder Roger Mcnamee and jonathan, barclays head of u. S. Equity strategy research. Good morning to you both. Big story is the Senate Hearing under way this hour on capitol hill, top intelligence officials facing questions primarily centered on russias purported hacking of the u. S. President ial election. Senators john mccain, elizabeth warren, tim kaine among the committee members. Eamon javers has been watching this all morning long. Fascinating headlines. Good morning, eamon. Reporter good morning, carl. There is an enormous elephant in the room here, and that is this classified Intelligence Community report on alleged russian hacking of the u. S. Election. We know that that report has been delivered to president barack obama
Our road map this morning begins with the market moving on comments from trump on pharma, defense, automakers, what the News Conference meant for investors. Plus, trumps ally in the valley, peter thiel on the president elect with comments on apple and the stock market as well. Speaking of apple, new report the company is planning a significant move into original content. We will fill you in. First up though, futures moving lower a day after the nasdaq hit that record high. It was a rough day for biotech after shot heard around the pharma world delivered by the president elect at his News Conference yesterday. Our drug industry has been disastrous. Theyre leaving left and right. They supply our drugs, but they dont make them here. Theyre getting away with murder. Pharma, pharma has a lot of lobbyis lobbyists, a lot of lobbyists and a lot of power. Theres very little bidding on drugs. Were the largest buyer of drugs in the world and yet we dont bid properly. Were going to start bidding a
United airlines fallout. Oscar munoz speaking out. Earnings season kicks off. And delta is up after mixed earnings. And fords mark fields will join us from the new York Auto Show. How is his company adjusting in the trump era . First up, the united saga enters day three and munoz apologized saying that the company made a mistake and will fix it. Now speaking to abc news this morning. United were not going to put Law Enforcement officials to take them off the airline Law Enforcement official will never come on one of your planes again . To remove a booked, paid, seating passenger, we cant do that. Do you think hes at fault in any way . No. He cant be. He was a paying passenger, sitting on our seat and in our aircraft. And no one should be treated that way. Goes on to tell Rebecca Jarvis that passengers will not be removed like this again. Right. He has no plans to step down. And that the initial responses did not fully convey how the company was feeling. No, it was Law Enforcement that