Markets
Halloween trading starts with weekly grain export sales, an updated U.S. Drought Monitor, U.S. jobless claims, personal incomes and the employment cost index -- all due out at 7:30 a.m. CDT. U.S. natural gas inventories are available at 9:30 a.m. Weather radar will be watched as rain and snow are expected to move eastward Thursday.
Weather
Thursday features rain and snow in the eastern Midwest, disrupting harvest. Dry and cold conditions elsewhere will be more favorable for harvest progress.
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