Following its test of the $6 resistance on Monday, May natural gas futures finished the week on a four-day slide lower, closing 12.4 cents down on Friday at $5.610. Some analysts looked to the country’s current weather pattern, as well as the storage situation, for answers, taking into account Thursday’s slightly bearish EIA storage report.
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Big Storage Withdrawal Fails to Avert Cash Backslide
Traders finally came to view the cash market Thursday much aspolice would view a vagrant: they’re suspicious of somethingwithout visible means of support. The result was predictable asprices fell anywhere from 2-3 cents at a few Gulf Coast points to15 cents or more in the Rockies/Pacific Northwest.
February 4, 2000