Thursday's economic calendar: Chain Store Sales 7:30 Challenger Job-Cut Report 8:30 Initial Jobless Claims 9:45 Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index 10:00 Factory Orders 10:30 EIA Natural Gas Inventory 2:00 PM FOMC minutes 4:30 PM Money Supply 4:30 PM Fed Balance Sheet 6:30 PM Fed's Bullard: U.S. Economic and Monetary Policy