Markets
Traders will likely reflect overnight on Wednesday's latest estimates from USDA. Weekly export sales, U.S. jobless claims and an update of the U.S. Drought Monitor start Thursday's reports at 7:30 a.m. CDT. U.S. natural gas inventories are released at 9:30 a.m. The latest weather forecasts and trade news will also be watched, as usual.
Weather
Showers and thunderstorms will cross the northern and western Midwest, Delta and Southeast Thursday. Rainfall will be light to locally moderate with some severe storm potential in the northern storms. Temperatures will be seasonally warm north, central and southeast and very hot in the Southern Plains and Texas.