$110..60 for the barrel. that is increase of about $7 since yesterday and the highest level it has been since 2011. the release of oil from the strategic petroleum reserve that the president announced has had absolutely no impact on price. prices have continued to rise, obviously. we have got a graph that i think shows you the ebb and flow of oil and the spr. not a dangerously low levels but it just had no impact on price. that said, there is help from u.s. producers. we are told that there are now 650 working rigs, oil rigs and natural gas drilling rigs in the u.s. that s an increase of five just in the last week and an increase of 250 over the course of the last year. so that s good news. but, as you suggest at the outset, a lot of people wondering why the president doesn t do more to encourage u.s. producers. among those people wondering the president of the american petroleum institute who tells fox business today u.s. producers can and are willing to
a lot. charlie gasparino, a good many of companies have left and more are looking to leave. he says more should. what do you think? yes, they should and they are. some for some companies it s not that easy just to inwind their business relationships. if your a bank, your citigroup, you ve been doing business in russia for years, to unwind those relationships. you have a responsibility to your customers. i m not trying to carry water for wall street. i m saying there needs to be a transition. that s what places like citigroup, goldman sachs. david solomon has been all over the place on this. one of the reasons is and he clarified his remarks saying it s his possibility to leave russia and be part of the global community. he has business ties there. mcdonald s, remember, you had the former ceo on fox business today of mcdonald s. he made a great point.
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than 8 million unfilled jobs nationwide. the most in more than two decades. 15 million americans are still getting state or federal unemployment benefits but the president s labor secretary marty walsh told fox business today don t blame jobless aid for the worker shortage. watch. i think this report shows the unemployment benefit is not necessarily keeping people out of the workforce. it is supporting families that are still out of work. harris: forbes media ceo and editor in chief steve forbes is here to break it down. always great to have you on the program. i want to start with the jobs numbers and what you see are the facts there. when unemployment is down fewer people are looking for work. there is hidden meaning there. break it down for us. what you see is you mentioned that 8 million job openings is that there are a lot of people who are still getting more in benefits than they are by going back into the workforce. that emergency measure was
you don t want to overstate it heard what you think? there could be some of these numbers that change. consumers two-thirds of the best economy. it s up and down over the last many months. there is something called the wealth effect when markets go up in the economy is doing fine. people feel better. that tends to reverberate down into the economy as people are spending more. neil: i like the analogy someone else was using on fox business today. when the boss is happy, i m happy. if they are happy, i m happy. during the lunch break, hugo buy something else. neil: much, much more appeared in the meantime, we are going to get a layout of the time frame here for not only what the house rules committee is debating here in the time i tomorrow but the actual vote tomorrow. what if it could be just what the president? tomorrow night after this.