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Which is now more important than ever. only egglands best. predictions that killing up your car will probably cost less next year, but prices could go back up to more than $4.00 a gallon as we start to get closer to the peak summer travel prices. brian chung, good news, not so good news. overall, better than what we saw the past 11 months. >> americans have seen prices coming down the last few weeks. i was on long island last week and i saw gas at $2.99. i almost teared up seeing that number. ...

The gas stations selling gas at $3.09 or less. the most common price for gas stations across the country is $2.99. the decline in gas prices giving consumers a break they need helping them keep our economy going. two-car family they are saving hundreds of dollars a month. its a big deal. todays report contains another piece of good news. food inflation has slowed last month provided much-needed relief for millions of families at the grocery store. this is welcome news for families across the cou...

The united states. inflation outside of food and energy, a key measure that economists use also fell. make no mistake, prices are still too high. we have a lot more work to do. but things are getting better. headed in the right direction. most americans could see the progress driving down the street finding relief at the pump as gas prices fall. gas prices are now lower than they were a year ago and half of the gas stations selling gas are selling gas at $3.09 or less. the most common price for ...

Now is $2.99 a gallon. joining me now is jeremy bernstein, an old friend. jarred, good to see you. we have heard people say im wall street today that the consumers are actually holding this economy operate, now which is an interesting message because we have heard a lot of two men gloom about everything going into the midterm election. the consumer seems more confident in the pundits are. >> yeah, that is a great point and it is great to see you as well. ali, you have to recognize, as i know you...

Trickled down, impacting retailers like cvs, smashing and grabbing items that cost 2.99. >> yeah. i want to be careful what i say, i dont want to give indication i know much about the fencing of stolen goods, but i think the general picture is its much harder to sell on, to fence, you know, a gucci handbag at $10,000, than to go into a cvs and pick up a couple hundred dollars worth of household goods and sell them on the street. petty crime, still organized, gangs and groups do this, easier to p...

Weve seen evidence of that within the economy, that, you know, as americans we want to have our experiences, especially after being under lockdown and feeling like we were sequestered so long that we wanted a normal holiday season. basically what youre saying, the shoppers are blowing through that. however theyre paying for it is another story, but theyre managing. >> jacqui, theyre shopping smarter today. look, our fresh turkeys and i recommend everybody go fresh, dont get a frozen turkey for t...

Go to the bbc news website,, bbc.co.uk/news, in our cost of living tackling together series, there is a lot of extra information. there may be some announcements that the government will scrap the cap, limiting annual council tax rises to 2.99% plus 1% for social care. we will know more on thursday, but lots of useful information on our website, so do go there. it is helpful. a bbc investigation has discovered evidence that workers on world cup related infrastructure projects in qatar have recen...

We do this every two years but next one is the big one, the presidential election in which you have now election deniers, they have a game plan of the way they want to take the next election regardless of the vote. and you had these polling averages that had things like trafalgar and all these other republican pollsters in them, and you talked about how there was a big disconnect between what they said was going to happen, look at that, r-2.99. r, 0.8 forfivethirtyeight but it turned out democra...

Enforcing the rule. >> this is a tight race, this is a tight race of one or two points. [cheers and applause] it looks like he could flip it from democrat to republican. finally your name? >> andrew. >> you are a caterer so your prices are affecting you as well? >> you look at two or three years ago, you would buy 10 pounds of potatoes, $2.99. but now potatoes $8, $9. little butter patches to be $0.02 a piece that once you get at a restaurant but i paid $0.10 each. >> everybody -- who else is im...

Black friday-- holiday shoppers are already hunting for the best deals. >> this is marked down from $3.99 to $2.99. >> reporter: half of this years gift-givers say they plan to start shopping by the end of october. thats why target rolled out its "deal days" event this week, slashing prizes up to 50%, timed just days ahead of amazons highly-anticipated prime early access sale. it almost seems like an arms race? >> retailers definitely have an arms race to reach shoppers while the shopper still h...