Thursday: Unemployment Claims, Trade Balance

Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.

Thursday:
• At 8:30 AM ET, The initial weekly unemployment claims report will be released.  The consensus is for 243 thousand initial claims, up from 230 thousand last week.

• At 8:30 AM, Trade Balance report for March from the Census Bureau. The consensus is the trade deficit to be $63.8 billion.  The U.S. trade deficit was at $70.3 billion in February.