specifically being closely watched because the maker of everything from pampers diapers to tide laundry detergent to crest toothpaste could give us a signal as to consumer behavior in a time where inflation is even more of a concern. on the one hand, p&g got hit from rising costs for raw materials and freight and transportation, but and here s the key it was automobile to raise prices on its key goods and consumers seemed willing to pay for it. now to your point, chris, that positivity does not get us back to the 540 points we lost yesterday, but interest rates continue to be a big focus. interest rates could serve as a tapping on the brakes on the overall u.s. economy. thank you for that. coming up, the biden administration announces a plan to send masks to millions of americans as their website providing free tests to all americans goes live. i ll tell you how to order them
cocoa pebbles 20.05 ounces to 19.5 ounces but the price went up from 3.99 to 4.79 a box. what s happening is companies, large corporations are dealing with inflation, they are dealing with material costs that have jumped. dealing with truckers that they are having to pay double now to get all of those products to your grocery store where you live. and, of course, the labor shortage and the supply chain crunch which has still become a problem. we are still feeling the backlog of that, will. this is what americans are facing. what i want to know at what point is the president biden and the administration are going to tell us that all the food companies are evil corporations. i m waiting for that. will: right. right. here s some more examples. this is fascinating by the way you showed the aleve adjustment. 100 to 90. crest toothpaste 4.1 ounces down to 3.8 ounces. so one thing i m noticing, cheryl though, you said same box but they are marking it. there is gain down almost 10
saying tonight about price hikes and some of the items you ll see rising prices on fist. here s our chief business and economics correspondent rebecca jarvis tonight. reporter: tonight, proctor & gamble, maker of tide detergent and crest toothpaste, the latest in a growing list of companies announcing price hikes on many household staples in response to mounting problems with the supply chain. in a call with investors today, the company, which already raised the price of pampers diapers earlier this year, said it is limiting how much some retailers can buy to prevent hoarding and changing up shipping routes to get around bottlenecks. the news comes as a record breaking 100 ships wait to unload at the ports of l.a. and long beach. our martha raddatz showing us right here in recent days what the bottleneck looks like up close. there are more than 60 container ships anchored here. normally, there wouldn t be any. and these are the ones we can see. out beyond here, there are dozens mor