Early on Friday we will be watching for the non-farm payroll report and the unemployment rate along with purchasing manager's index (PMI) for signs of how the U.S. economy is faring. We will also be watching for new China purchases and any developments at Gulf shipping terminals.
Weather
A frontal boundary is moving through the Western Corn Belt Friday morning with some moderate rainfall from western Wisconsin and southeast Minnesota into eastern Kansas. The front will be slow to move south across the Southern Plains. This should provide beneficial rainfall for some areas of the Southern Plains winter wheat areas that have been dry over the last several weeks but could cause some flooding in Kansas.