Every five years the u. S. Government comes out with new guidelines about what we should and shouldnt eat. While the intentions should be good the result could be a recipe for confusion. That is our cover story. When the department of agriculture updates dietary guidelines, wide ranging trends for the food and Fitness Industry to diets and restaurants. You might recall the low fat movement of the 80s and 90s starting when the government told people to cut back on the consumption of fat. This year government calling out americas sweet tooth. First time addressing sugar, should make up no more than 10 of calories consumed. The update is part of the my Plate Initiative which replaced the food pyramid back in 2010. My plate is designed to show Building Blocks of balanced meal and get americans to eat more fruits and vegetables. Guidelines suggest americans cut back on saturated fats which they say should make up no more than 5 , found in meat and dairy. Suggesting salt intake of 2300 milli
Defects. Sarah welcome to the program. Rouhani has hailed a new relationship with france. Rouhani was speaking at a palace in paris where he met with french president holland. The two oversaw the signing of around 20 trade deals that are said to be worth around 30 billion euros. This is a historic visit for rouhani who is on the second leg of a fourday european trip, meeting leaders of government and business for the First Time Since sanctions against his country were lifted. Lets bring in our correspondent who is standing by for us in paris. Break down these deals for us. What exactly was agreed to today . Reporter there were a lot of different deals really. In different areas, in agriculture, in telecommunications, in transport and the overall volume of them was tens of billions of euros. One of them, for example, iran is going to buy more than 100 air bust planes worth more than airbus planes worth more than 20 billion euros. These are very important for france. The French Economy i
And the World Health Organization raises the alarm over the zika outbreak. Its as four Million People in north and south america are at risk from the virus. Which has been linked to birth defects. Sarah welcome to the program. Rouhani has hailed a new relationship with france. Rouhani was speaking at a palace in paris where he met with french president holland. The two oversaw the signing of around 20 trade deals that are said to be worth around 30 billion euros. This is a historic visit for rouhani who is on the second leg of a fourday european trip, meeting leaders of government and business for the First Time Since sanctions against his country were lifted. Lets bring in our correspondent who is standing by for us in paris. Break down these deals for us. What exactly was agreed to today . Reporter there were a lot of different deals really. In different areas, in agriculture, in telecommunications, in transport and the overall volume of them was tens of billions of euros. One of the
170plus billion dollar company. Thats a huge move. It is and its incredible those earnings still could blow it out. A lot to do with frozen. We talked about it yesterday but the reaction initially was not as strong as what weve seen throughout the session. Its held up well throughout a volatile session. Speaking of volatility, look no further than oil. Remember the big rally weve been talking about and the price of oil, it has reversed itself. Its now given back all of the gains that we saw the last two days. The price of oil settling down more than 8 today. For a period of time it was down 10 just off the lows. Well talk more about that coming up. More market moving earnings also due out in an hour. We have 21st century fox today, Keurig Green Mountain under armour yum brands. Dont miss a moment of it. Were waiting for the big unemployment number on friday. Right now it stands at 5. 6 and the Unemployment Rate is a big lie. Thats not me saying that. That would be the ceo of gallup of
Week. Not discussed at all, including today, when the dow opened big. Nasdaq advancing 0. 31 . A lot of that because of apple. Apples endless inexorable rise is a gigantic underpinning of this market and we must never forget that fact. Oh, we may focus on the gyrations of ali baba and marvel at the possibilities of twitter. We may be fascinated how macys rallied. Nevertheless, its apple thats the leader. And that in itself is amazing, given everything we ever thought possible about any one particular stock in this market. Consider, here you have the largest stock in the world, with a 650 billion market cap, and the darn thing is up an astou astounding 39 yeartodate. We expect that kind of move from the stock of a company thats being taken over, or maybe a smaller capitalization junior growth stock or a biotech with a redhot product. But from the Biggest Company on earth . Whod believe it . Megacap stocks simply arent supposed to give you these kinds of epic moves. That was easy. Hallel