cnbc's mandy drury is here with a market rundown. mandy, good morning to you. bring us up to date about this. before we start talking about holidays because it's still way too early for me to talk about it. i know you will. >> yeah. so we got the initial jobless claims that you're referring to as the good data this morning which fell to 263,000 from 276,000 last week. so that's near a 42-year low, and it really does seem that employers at least in certain sectors are keeping a time hold on their employees because it's basically getting tougher to find people with the right skills because the participation rate in the job market is also continuing to fall. so why is the market a little jittery? well, you know, we've got the minutes from the fed's september meeting at 2:00 p.m. eastern. so no one's taking any big bets there. of course we're looking for clarification on a number of things, right? like how close a call was it in september? what exactly do they see as the impact of those developments abroad that supposedly stayed their hand. you know, and also what their