Kyle Risdell

For the five days gone by, the week that was, the Dow gained three-tenths of 1%.

The Nasdaq lost about a half percent.

The S&P 500 notched up one-tenth of 1% on the day.

Walmart ticked down about a tenth of 1%.

That on news that Doug McMillan is going to announce, has announced rather, his retirement.

New guy from inside the company taking his place.

Bonds down, yield on the 10-year T-note 4.15%.

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At the risk of repeating myself and without ignoring all of the other ways in which it is a very high-profile issue right now, immigration is a labor market story.

And obviously, the more immigrants a given region of the country has, the more of a labor force issue it is.

A survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas shows that 20% of the companies in its district—that's all of Texas, southern New Mexico, and northern Louisiana—

20% of the companies there say the Trump administration's immigration crackdown has hampered or they expect it to hamper their ability to hire and retain foreign-born workers this year.

In this first story from an occasional series we're going to call Help Not Wanted, Marketplace's Elizabeth Troval looks at one slice of that workforce that relies heavily on those immigrants.

This time of year, Thanksgiving-ish onward, is typically when we got a lot of new movies, films that the studios are banking on to be their big holiday hits.

And whether you're itching to see the new Wicked movie or whichever number Avatar sequel this next one is going to be, you're going to have a decision to make.

To IMAX or not to IMAX.

They are just a fraction of the screens in this country.

But movies shown in IMAX are a growing share of box office sales.