emerging markets now a huge amount of their revenues. the numbers game in at $4.2 billion. i think i promised this our last story for a while, but twinkies are back on store shelves. more to add to the twinkie story? reporter: not at all. a little bit taken way from the twinkie story. twinkies are lighter. they are coming back. late november when we started talking about these things. they are coming back. under private equity ownership. they are smaller. you can get as much twinkie for your money. used to be 150 calories per cake, 42.5 grams. they are only 135 calories now and 38.5 grams cake. so a bit of an issue there trying to get their twinkie fix.
long to get a new phone. we will let you upgrade after one year and it s more money for them and better for you. twinkies back on store shelves as of yesterday but a little lighter now. right. you ve got the new owners of hostess which makes the twingys and they have new costs. the new box lists the cake after 270 calories and a weight of 77 grams but that is for two cakes. if it s just one cake it s going to be 38.5 grams for one cake. ed the old twingys was supposedly 42.5 grams per cake. a spokeswoman for hostess said the change was made by the predecessor company in the months leading up to their bankrupt and a longer cheveldae, 45 days up from 26. cnbc mandy drury, thank you
house republicans and senate republicans. the first time he has met with the republicans on the hill since 2010. bret: thank you. what has been characterized as major snowstorm is moving up the coast. it s not that bad in washington. more rain than snow. but in virginia, there is a state of emergency. heavy snow forced school and business closings. further north, the areas hit by hurricane sandy are bracing for more weather problems in the next couple of days. a private survey shows they added jobs in february. the january total was 215,000 and that is 23,000 more than initially reported. the federal government jobs report for last month comes out friday. the dow finished with a new record close after gaining 42.5. the s&p 500 finished ahead 2. and the nasdaq lost two. if you want to help the
come along and we cut ourselves our own outsiders over 11% over two years giving us the moral authority. and and not only that, in 2009 there is a reobama budget and there is a trillion more than we brought in about $2.23 trillion. why can t we go back to their budget. it s 6,000. this is policy rigged by 42.5. and let s go back to the pelosi read budget of 2008. there is a number of solutions but spending has got to come down. i agree. the president . everybody else, they re okay. and this is spending.
are fading all over again. martha: so obviously the white house looks at that bigger trend and says look, we re heading in the right direction. slower than anybody wanted it be but maybe we are in sort of a different situation this time around? well look the trend line, as far as you know employment benefits is concerned is not going in the right direction for the white house. the trend line has reversed. it is now going up. that is not what the white house wants to see. these are very political numbers and they spell bad political news for president obama. martha: stuart, thank you. we ll see you over at the fox business network shortly. start varney, always a stuart varney, always a pleasure. gregg: just to give you an idea how bad the job situation is in this country, 22.8 million people are unemployed or underemployed. the average duration of that unemployment, nearly ten months long. 42.5% of jobless americans have been out of work for six months or more. 7.7 employed, million