 If your employer does decide to lay you off, Julia Toothaker says there might not be much room to negotiate. So if you think the axe is about to fall, best start looking for another job. I'm Mitchell Hartman for Marketplace. The Dow is up slightly seven points. The S&P and the Nasdaq each touched record highs this morning. The S&P is up 0.2%, Nasdaq up 0.4% in Texas.