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Apple hits a $3 trillion mark, and it looks like Theronaut's founder Elizabeth Holmes is going to jail.

Tune in as our columnist discuss this week's top business stories.

Welcome to the views from. I'm Rob Cox. The editor of Breaking Views, the financial commentary arm of Reuters News, come to you from Manhattan.

For this week's edition, I talked to two of our columnists in the United States about the world's most valuable company and one of Silicon Valley's biggest frauds.

First, Richard Beals talks about Apple's extraordinary milestone reached this week.

The company run by Tim Cook saw its market value hit $3 trillion.

No public enterprise has ever been as big as the iPhone maker, which now accounts for 7% of the S&P 500 index.

Google owner alphabet tips the scales at less than $2 trillion, as do oil BEM and Saudi Aramco and e-commerce pacetzer Amazon.com.

Richard explains how Apple may just get to $4 trillion before we know it.

After that, Gina Chong chats about how defunct blood testing startup Theranos has become a cautionary legal tale.

A federal U.S. jury on Monday convicted founder Elizabeth Holmes of defrauding investors.

If that verdict stands a possibility of years in prison sends a very strong message that even in

Silicon Valley, there's a limit to how flagrantly you can fake it until you make it. Give a listen.

Happy New Year Richard Beals. First of all, wrote a bunch of stories this week already, this year, I should say.

But one of the ones that caught everyone's eye was this view about the Apple reaching a $3 trillion market capitalization, which is extraordinary on a whole bunch of levels.

But maybe just sort of walk us through that why to you this is

so significant.

Yeah, happy new year, Rob.

Happy New Year, Tim Cook and Apple, hitting that milestone only briefly so far, but,

you know, if the markets keep going up, it seems likely it'll continue.

Now, of course, these numbers are just numbers.

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