 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. New all-time highs for the S&P and the Nasdaq stock indexes. And Nasdaq futures this morning are up 0.4%. S&P futures up 0.2%. Dow futures up just slightly.