we will check in with courtney regan.has more on that and the rest of the day's business headlines. >> right now the dow is up 56 points which pushes the dow over the 11,000 mark. we're trading around 11,500. a mixed session on thursday. asian markets lower overnight. the big focus for all investors and market watchers alike is that monthly jobs report, 95,000 nonfarm jobs were lost in september. private sector growth was up by 64,000 jobs. but like you mentioned the unemployment rate does remain unchanged at 9.6%. we got a muted reaction by the market to that report. it was somewhat mixed. we thought the unemployment rate would go higher but job losses would be fewer. we evened out there. this is the last jobs report before the november elections. that's key to point out. and 1700 jobs are being eliminated from the pharmaceutical business. 25% of the jobs in that business unit. but only 13 of i was total 13,000 u.s. employees. and bank of america is hopinalt foreclosures in all 50 states. and nearly a million workers won

les check in with consider nbc's courtney regan. >> reporter: good morning.ht now the dow is down about 27 points but the nasdaq and the s&p are up. we have a mixed trading session here today. same situation overnight in asia and also in europe. just closed. we're seeing mixed results around t world. federal reserve chairman ben bernanke did speak at a conference in boston and caured investors ears. he was able to move futures higher ahead of the opening bell saying there's a case to be made to take action sooner than later. retail sales rose 0.6%. the increase was led by big ticket items. consumer price index edged higher. that core rate was unchanged. and general electric beat analyst asstimates by two cents. consumer confidence is a bit lower. walmart looking at opening some small stores in urban markets. they are trying to fightoff challenges from dollar stores and similar rivals. the stores will be about a third and largely sellgroceries. walmart plans to open 30 to 40 stores to test the concept. video game sales dropped in september. mt which track sale