There's a lukewarm market response today to a battery of data including an uptick in housing starts and building permits as well as higher oil prices and lower industrial production.
Arun Raha, the state's chief economist, will try to make sense of it all in the forecast he delivers Thursday, provided a preview of the situation a couple weeks ago.
Most folks will be looking for news on whether the previously estimated $9 billion shortfall will grow a little, a lot or not at all.