if you paid any attention to the u.s. jobs report at any point over the last three years, there s a good chance you ve heard the phrase, better than expected. you ve probably heard it again over the last few days following the latest job in december. 216,000 new jobs were created. much better than expected for cnbc. back in the old days, weeks 150,000 or more jobs created in one month was good. there are now 100 one point 42 open positions for every job seeker in america. well every available job is not matched every available job seeker, mathematically, america has more jobs than it has available workers. that s just the fact. december s 2100is not anomaly either. that s largely been the trend of the biden presidency since the office in 2021. you can find similar headlines about better than expected numbers for june 2021, january 2022, june 2022, september 2023, for example. this has been one of the top achievements of the biden presidency. it shows that he s been able to
let s now get down to business. we start with energy as more eu caps on russian oil have come into effect. the price of premium products, primarily diesel, is being capped at $100 a barrel, while low end products, including fuel oil, will be capped at $45. other oil product imports are banned completely from today. the price cap is designed to limit moscow s ability to fund its war in ukraine. enforcement relies on prohibiting insurance and shipping companies from dealing with russian cargo, unless it was bought at or below the set price. i have not got viyella davis to talk about this instead i do have another guest. joining me now is spencer welch, oil analyst with s&p global. we have been talking about eu caps and bounce, what has changed today? changed today? there is essentially changed today? there is essentially three - changed today? there is. essentially three different mechanisms that have been put in place in the last two months. on the fifth of december, the eu
prime minister david cameron. mostly business, anyway. after they caught a game in the ncaa basketball tournament, president obama welcomed the british prime minister and his wife in a ceremony fit for a king. right now they re meeting in private on world issues tough to talk about. iran, syria, the debt crisis. stop me any time. they will be honored tonight at a state dinner as well. in a little over an hour from now, he and the president will be stepping into the rose garden for a news conference, and you ll be seeing it live here on cnn, so stay tuned. also in the news, secretary leon panetta is in the eyes of the storm. he will be visiting with troops and governors and tribal leaders in afghanistan. he won t see the rebel who went on the killing spree there. military investigators want to know if alcohol was, in fact, a factor in the cold-blooded shootings of those 16 afghan men, women and mostly children. toxicology tests on the suspect are not yet complete. authorit
theblaze.com. happy friday let s get to our starting point. protests happening right now in afghanistan, protesting the decision of some nato trops to burn korans. hundreds of people to surround the embassy. five people have been hurt. nick paton walsh is live for news kabul. what s the latest? well, what we re hearing is that the west of the country, hurat, one of the main city there s. u.s. consulate in kabul, the u.s. consulate out there have a very angry crowd outside. hundreds of people, i had actually from an eyewitness could hear the sirens, the panic from that particular area. we understand that to the hospital in hurat, one dead body has been brought fr presumably from this protest. one injured and one lost their life. they are apparently close to the u.s. consulate, setting fire to police cars, clashes now breaking out police police and proteste protesters. in kabul, we have heard of shots being fired in the air to try and move the crowd that we re heading towar
atone shtentio attention, including the attention of our president. and eruptions rage in afghanistan even after president obama apologizes for the burning of the koran. we are getting reports of a serious increase in the chaos there. in this country, a man accused of killing his wife while on a scuba trip and who pled guilty to it elsewhere finds he will not be spending time in prison in this country, the judge said i don t even want the jury to hear this. yesterday we told you about the lawmaker who called the girl scouts a bunch of communists and radicals. he says he s sorry, however he says it doesn t change the way that he feels. we ll have a lot more on that. up first, as ashleigh said, more pain at the pump. apparently there s no relief in sight. aaa says national average price of gasoline now is 3.64 per gallon. it s the highest ever for this time of year. we re watching the aaa report this year to see when they come up with a daily increase or decrease. the