India, June 5 -- The the Labor Department's weekly jobless claims and the U.S. trade deficit might be the focus on Thursday.
In the Asian trading session, the dollar remained under pressure, gold was little changed. The oil futures edged up slightly.
Asian shares finished mostly up, while European shares.
Early cues from the U.S. Futures Index suggest that Wall Street might open broadly up.
As of 8.00 am ET, the Dow futures were up 7.00 points, the S&P 500 futures were adding 0.25 points and the Nasdaq 100 futures were declining 4.50 points.
The U.S. major averages finished broadly up on Wednesday. the Dow dipped 91.90 points or 0.2 percent to 42,427.74, the S&P 500 inched up 0.44 points or less than a tenth of a percent to 5,970.81 an...