PHILLIPS: It's the last day of the quarter and the month and, for Wall Street, the numbers are looking good. The Dow on track for its best September performance since 1939. Alison Kosik of the New York Stock Exchange with the details. Hey, Alison.</s>ALISON KOSIK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hey, Kyra. Looking back on this month, it really has been an unusually good one for investors, thanks to some upbeat economic reports. And today, we're getting more of it. Stocks turned higher after the latest reports came out on economic growth and the labor market. The final reading on second quarter GDP shows the economy grew at a 1.7 percent pace. Sure, that's sluggish, but it is slightly better than the previous range. Meantime, new jobless claims, they fell by 16,000 last week, coming in at 453,000. That shows that the pace of layoffs is slowing. And finally, Kyra, last week we told you about Allied Financial temporarily freezing some foreclosures because the bank admitted that some employees signed off on foreclosure documents without properly reviewing them. Now, JP Morgan is reportedly freezing 56,000 foreclosures because of the same problem. The bank is reviewing the documents to see if anyone was foreclosed on who shouldn't have been. We reached out, but JP Moran isn't commenting. What a mess. Kyra?</s>PHLLIPS: All right. Alison, thanks. We're getting some sad news in this morning. "Entertainment Tonight" reporting that Tony Curtis has died. Curtis was one of those Hollywood legends, as you know, whose career started when he got out of the service after World War II. One of his most famous films, "Some Like It Hot," where he pretended to be a millionaire to woo Marilyn Monroe. He also played a runaway slave in "Spartacus," acting alongside Lawrence Olivier and Kirk Douglas, and was nominated for an Oscar in "The Defiant Ones" in 1958. Also, as you know, Curtis is the father of actress Jamie Lee Curtis.
Jobless Claims Down and Wall Street Off to Good Start