(RTTNews) - Thursday, following data is set for release during the rest of the day.

The Commerce Department is scheduled to release its business inventories report for December at 10 AM ET on the same day. The report summarizes the results from the monthly retail trade, wholesale trade and factory goods orders surveys. The report is expected to show a 0.6% decline in business inventories for the month.

Business inventories at the end of November were down 0.7% month-over-month. Business sales declined 5.1% from the previous month and were down a steeper 8.9% from the year-ago period. The total business inventories to sales ratio at the end of November was 1.41 compared to 1.24 in the year-ago period.

At 10.30 AM ET, the Energy Information Administration is scheduled to release its weekly Natural Gas report.

Money supply data is due at 4.30 PM ET.

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