Karen Moscow

Initial claims decreased by 5,000 to 227,000 in the week ending February 7th.

We continue to watch shares of McDonald's today.

They're up three quarters of a percent as U.S.

sales grew at the fastest pace in more than two years in the fourth quarter.

At the Olympics, Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladislav Horescovich is out of the Milan-Kortina Games after refusing to stop wearing a banned tribute helmet.

His helmet showed the faces of more than 20 Ukrainian athletes and coaches that were killed in the war with Russia.

The IOC said the helmet breaks rules against political statements in competition.

Taking a look at the medal count now at the Olympics.

When it comes to golds, Norway continues to lead the way.

It has seven gold medals.

The United States has four.

But when it comes to overall medals, Italy leads the way.

It has 14.

The United States is tied with Norway for second.

They both have 13 medals overall.

Taking a look at the markets now, Wall Street traders are driving a rotation out of technology stocks and into economically sensitive areas of the market.

While bonds are edging up ahead of a key inflation report due out tomorrow, markets are hoping for evidence that price pressures are on a downward path.

S&P 500 is up a tenth of a percent.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average up four-tenths of a percent.

The Nasdaq lower down a quarter percent.