 The candidates will be on stage at the CNN studios for the first of the two currently planned major debates ahead of this November's election. The event begins at 9 p.m. Eastern. The latest data on weekly jobless claims shows fewer Americans requesting first-time benefits. The Labor Department says it received 233,000 claims in the week ending June 22nd. That's a drop of 6,000 from the prior week and not far off from what most analysts had been expecting. And Wall Street is opening with stocks mixed.