Weekly U.S. jobless claims, first-quarter U.S. GDP and an update of the U.S. Drought Monitor will all be out at 7:30 a.m. CDT Thursday. The U.S. Energy Department's weekly natural gas storage report will be out at 9:30 a.m., followed by the weekly energy inventory report at 10 a.m. USDA's weekly export sales report will be out Friday morning, along with an important inflation indicator.
Weather
A system moving through the Canadian Prairies is pushing a cold front through the Northern and Central Plains Thursday morning, which will get into the Upper Midwest by this evening. To the south, the front will pivot in the region but also be near enough to an old boundary across Texas that should produce scattered showers and thunderstorms and severe weather in the southwestern Plains.