performance on wall street today. a positive jobs report was not enough to overcome worries over rapidly rising crude price prices oil prices. the dow cratered 630. down 700 at one point. the s&p 501 o5. for the week the dow gained 2 percentage points. the s&p 500 was up 1.5. the nasdaq gained three quarters of a point. let s find out what today was all about with the markets. fox business correspondent kelly o grady is in los angeles tonight with the latest. good evening, kelly. good evening to you, bret. after a strong couple of days to start off the fourth quarter earlier this week, stocks are now plummeting and driving that sell off is today s jobs report. at first glance the report is strong 263,000 jobs were added beating an expectation of 250,000. the unemployment rate also came in slightly lower than expected at 3.5%. president biden today touting the economy s performance. just look at today s jobs report. our economy created 263,000 jobs last month. that s 10
goes until about 8:00 p.m. tonight. today will be the busiest on the roads. the forecast from aaa, 48.7 million people driving 50 miles or more over the next five days starting today. really not all that far off from the 2019 actual numbers when we saw 49.9 million people hit the roads. just look at the breakdown here of the metro areas that are going to see really bad traffic over the next few hours. atlanta, new york, l.a., chicago, boston, san francisco, the congestion today will be twice the worst congestion on a normal day. so this is going to be really bad out there. what is really interesting here is that gas prices really aren t factoring into this for folks even though we re seeing gas prices the highest they ve ever
2.5 million people expected to pass through tsa checkpoints at airports nationwide. but today will likely be the busiest day for driving since covid hit. 48.7 million people anticipated to drive 50 miles or mer over the next ten days. today the busiest day not far from 2019 before the pandemic when triple a saw 49.9 million people hit the road. all of this as gas prices are the highest they have ever been for a thanksgiving rush. $3.61 is the national average, it was $3.40 this time last year. gas prices are going down but they are still up compared to a year ago. listen to drivers who tell us this is really not factoring in all that much of their decision and they re still wanting to get out for the holiday. people are traveling more. and they re tired of being at
from cheering to equal pay. the women s team will take home a slice of what the men s team was offered last year. the 2019 women s world cup offered players $30 million in prize money and compare that with $400 million that was handed out at the 2018 men s world cup. according to u.s. soccer s audited financial statements from 2016 to 2018, women s games generated about $50.8 million in revenue, compared with the men who generated only $49.9 million. so after the win yesterday, house speaker nancy pelosi wrote on twitter, congrats team usa world cup 2019 champions, the women s national team showed us their greatness, now show them the money, hash tag fair pay. again, if the women play more games, they make more money and they have a better record. they should be making more money than the men, not the same as the men, you would imagine. that sounds logical to me. still ahead, new reporting that the fbi and immigration and customs enforcement agents are
$400 million that was handed out at the 2018 men s world cup. according to audited financial statements from 2016 to 2018, women s games generated about $50.8 million in revenue compared with 49.9 million for the men. after the win yesterday, nancy pelosi posting this on twitter, congrats team usa world cup 2019 champions, they showed us their greatness, show them the money, hash tag fair pay. looking at the numbers, forget equal pay, they should get paid more than the men. sounds like it if it s based on the revenue number. we ll see kwhawhat happens. new reporting that the fbi and customs enforcement turn to driver s license scanning to scan millions of faces. billionaire tom steyer is reportedly thinking about running into the 2020 white house race.