may be over when it comes to soaring prices. gas national average now $3.98. nasdaq is finally out of its worst bear market in more than a decade, a busy seven days that began with the blockbuster jobs report a week ago that blew away expectations. you ve heard me say they get too much credit when the economy is good and too much blame when it is bad, but this has been a good week for this white house by any definition. the challenge thousand, can the democrats sell the wins to voters as the midterms draw closer or is this another missed tunts. want to bring in the chief u.s. strategy at agf investments. after months of rock bottom poll numbers and consumer confidence numbers that are just terrible, things finally breaking joe biden s way. yeah, good morning, christine. i think that the outlook has shifted a bit for the congressional races on november 8. i think the senate now is doable for the democrats. they may just barely hold on.
the s&p 500 lost one and a quarter. the nasdaq was down two and three quarters. take a look at gasoline prices. jumping 11 cents a gallon overnight. one month ago the average price was $3.42. a week ago 3.57. yesterday 373 and today s price 3.84. for diesel, 3.77 a month ago. 3.98 a week ago. 4.12 yesterday and 4.26 today. president biden says the economy rolled back faster than expected. celebrating the february jobs report but there is tremendous strain on the economy and american families on higher prices particularly as you just saw from gasoline. white house correspondent jackie mine rick joins us tonight with how that factors in to the ukraine crisis live from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening to you, bret. just when the grip of the pandemic seems to loosens the war s threat to the economy is growing by the day.
A voter turnout of 53.98 per cent till 5 pm was recorded on Sunday as the polling across 61 constituencies is underway for the fifth phase of Uttar Pradesh elections, according to the Election Commission of India (ECI).
wall street journal 3.98 trojan horse. all of the provisions of 8 bill except green energy tax cuts new spending increase by $3.8 trillion while the tax revenue would stay at $1.55 trillion over 10 years. this means the real cost of the sanders, biden pelosi budget is $4 trillion and putt the u.s. on a path to european. that s what these moderates are saying we need to see the score. yeah. i mean, this is the third or fourth time they have tried to do this? look, if they had brought up this infrastructure bill back in september, and nancy pelosi had simply said we are holding a vote on it, it probably would have passed. but i think that those numbers you just read out go to the weakness of the progressive democratic position. they know that the rest of their party is very uncomfortable with this. they know this isn t necessarily popular in big parts of the country so they deliberately tied it to that more popular bill to try to force both of them through now we are seeing
there s a profound problem. imran s promises to the people have not been delivered. actually, unfortunately, i m going to have to say that i don t agree with your conclusion. right now, pakistan s growth rate is 3.98%, 4%, which is one of the highest in the world, because despite all this covid crisis that the world has faced. and this is another story, the way pakistan faced covid, what a success story. pakistan has created, as well. independent economists. independent economists dispute that figure of 3.9%, as you know very well. they say growth this year is going to be around 1.5%. you ve got inflation running at 11%. it was 14%. the basic foodstuffs that your poorest people rely on are going up in price. and you can tell me whatever you like, but all of the independent evidence is that many, many pakistanis who voted for imran khan are now deeply disappointed.