Markets are trading in a lethargic manner as participants continue to nervously take on risk-correlated trades. The move toward risk is logical because without the massive sovereign crisis fear hovering over the market like the Sword of Damocles, one needs to consider the fundamentals – particularly monetary policy, as the core driver. Overall, the rate at which central banks are mopping up…

Weekly jobless claims will again be a big event for Thursday’s markets, and economists think the number will not really show any improvement.