Make sure the germs they bring home don t stick around. use clorox disinfecting products. because no one kills germs better than clorox. we re following developments from wall street this morning. stocks have been showing very little movement in this first hour of trading, up, what, five points? cnbc s morgan brennan is here with the market rundown. morgan, good morning. good morning, jose. stocks were largely flat, as you pointed out, but they are on track for a third straight week of gains. despite all the market turbulence over the last few months, the s&p 500 is now about 5% from its all-time high hit earlier this year. now, the stock has leading the s&p higher today, it s toy-maker mattel. barbie doll sales continue to tumble, down about 14% last quarter as girls gravitate to other dolls, like disney s frozen, but the company saying earnings results were broadly in line with our expectations at this stage of our turnaround. so, seeing the stock get some lift there.
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 dev
Overcrowding in prisons and give relief to some drug offenders who received harsh sentences. most of the inmates affected were jailed for cocaine and meth related crimes. the inmates will be released from federal prisons around the country between october 30th and november 2nd. the chilling news out of the central american country of el salvador. homicides there have increased by 72% this year. that s equivalent to nearly 5,000 deaths. more than 500 of those deaths have been children. much of the violence linked to in-fighting between gangs which has only escalated since a truce between the two biggest gangs crumbled. police targeted by gangs say 80% of the homicides are related to gangs. we re following new developments from wall street where investors are closely watching a mega merger involving two of the world s biggest largest beer brewers. cnbc s mandy drury is here with a market rundown. the world s second largest
Now to developments from wall street. let s look at the numbers right now. stocks are kind of mixed in this first hour of trading, up 22 points. the dow, s&p 500 down four. nasdaq down 27. cnbc s mandy drury is here with a market rundown. not major moves as you can see. but we ve enjoyed the best five-day run since 2011 for the benchmark s&p 500. you can expect a little profit taking to kick in today. also what we re seeing is oil is moving higher extending gains with the eia saying u.s. crude output is going to fall through mid 2016. we ve also seen crude and the market move in tandem in recent days. by the way, we got the forecast from the imf today, the international monetary fund. it is downgrading its forecast for global economic growth