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PepsiCo (PEP) chairman and CEO Ramon Laguarta isn’t a fan of the ultra-processed food label being increasingly slapped onto big food makers. “I don’t like the word ultra-processed and I don’t believe in it,” Laguarta told Yahoo Finance Live in an exclusive interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday. “I think we are using kitchen logic to define our product.” Laguarta explained PepsiCo continues to look for ways to make its products better for consumers, in part… Source link

Katie Austin opens up about creating an “un-intimidating” fitness brand. (Photo courtesy of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit; designed by Quinn Lemmers) It Figures is Yahoo Life’s body image series, delving into the journeys of influential and inspiring figures as they explore what body confidence, body neutrality and self-love mean to them. If Katie Austin has learned one thing as one of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit‘s 2022 Rookies of the Year, it’s that comparison gets you nowhere when it comes to… Source link

The U.S dollar (DX-Y.NYB) has been on a tear this year, and foreign currencies sliding against the greenback is causing trouble for countries with debt and trade invoices denominated in dollars. As part of Yahoo Finance’s ongoing series, “What to do in a bear market,” we checked in with the experts on what the strong U.S dollar means for asset prices and how investors should position their portfolios. Why has the dollar strengthened so much against other currencies? So what’s pushing the dollar… Source link

The Nasdaq 100 (^NDX) shed 5.7% this week alone. The S&P 500 shed 4.7% over the last five days, following a hotter than expected inflation print coupled with grim warnings from package carrier bell FedEx (FDX). In continuation of our series, “What to do in a bear market,” Yahoo Finance asked the experts if the markets are headed lower from here. The Nasdaq (^IXIC) got hit particularly hard this week. What’s next for the tech heavy index? The Nasdaq Composite took out last week’s low of… Source link

LAS VEGAS — UFC president Dana White said he never thought he’d be challenged professionally the way he was as he tried to navigate the company through the COVD-19 crisis in 2020. The UFC was the first major sports franchise to return to competition after the pandemic began. Then, Thursday and Friday happened and, well, White had another story to add to his book. “This was kind of like COVID all over again all in one day,” White said, laughing, just moments before jumping on stage for… Source link

Jake Paul’s upcoming bout with Hasim Rahman Jr. has been canceled. The fight, which was set to take place next week at Madison Square Garden, was canceled on Saturday night due to an issue with Rahman’s weight. According to Paul’s promotion company, Rahman had lost less than one pound than he had initially agreed to for the fight — which was supposed to take place at a max of 200 pounds. Rahman weighed 216 pounds on July 7, and his team wanted the fight to take place at 215 pounds. Paul… Source link

Charles Oliveira has struggled throughout his career to make weight, so it was not stunning on Friday when he missed weight by a half-pound for his planned lightweight title defense with Justin Gaethje in the main event of UFC 274 at the Footprint Center in Phoenix, Arizona. He earned the ignominious distinction of becoming the first reigning UFC champion to lose his belt at the scale. The fight will go on, as Gaethje hit 155. If Gaethje wins, he’s champion. If Oliveira wins, the belt will… Source link

Google is introducing new users controls to allow people to limit the number of ads they see about pregnancy, parenting, dating and weight loss. The company first announced ad controls for YouTube in the United States and enabled users to choose to see fewer gambling and alcohol ads. Since the initial launch, these controls have rolled out to users globally for ads on YouTube. The company announced today that it’s expanding these controls with new ad categories… Source link

Google is expanding its sensitive ad categories options, letting users limit how many ads they see about dating, pregnancy, parenting, and weight loss, and making those settings apply to more places. The feature was introduced as a way to let people see fewer ads on YouTube about potentially addictive gambling or alcoholic products, but now it seems that Google is expanding it to cover other potentially uncomfortable or traumatic subjects. Your settings will now apply to all of Google’s… Source link

Shark Tank investor Kevin O’Leary may be bulking up his portfolio with cryptocurrency these days, but he is slimming down his weight. The 5’10” millionaire businessman is currently 164 pounds, after dropping 20 pounds late last year. O’Leary tells Yahoo Finance Live he was incentivized to shed those pandemic pounds after his annual medical checkup revealed he had high blood pressure. “My doctor said you’ve got to lose 20 pounds, your blood pressure is way up. It’s been going up… Source link