We see today's futures market action as less important for what it did than what it did not do, and suggest that even in a bear market pattern such as we have seen recently, the market is still sensitive to signs of demand. General Comments U.S. stock indices wandered without much direction on either side of unchanged for most of the session. They were just slightly lower at the close. European stocks closed higher, ending their three-day losing streak. A private survey showed mediocre U.S. job gains in January, but the market is waiting for the government jobs report on Friday as the next yardstick to measure the U.S. economy. Stock market analysts are debating whether the recent market plunge is just a necessary correction after the big...