Following four days of mixed price movement, Friday’s cash market emulated the one a week earlier in which all points recorded drops. Cooling load was due to fall during the weekend in some key power generation markets for gas; the screen had provided strongly negative guidance the day before with a 32-cent dive by September futures, and the usual weekend loss of industrial load was another factor in the softness.
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Screen, Lack of Weather Load Send Prices Diving
Predictably, cash numbers emulated the expiration-day plunge in May futures by taking swan dives themselves Thursday. A widespread dearth of significant weather-related demand only threw more fuel on the price fire sale, and the announcement of a sizeable storage injection heaped on a little extra bearishness in late business.
April 29, 2005
Most Points Near Standstill; Weekend Dips Expected
Much of the cash market emulated the March futures contract Thursday — barely budging from where it stood the day before. Outside of some sizeable drops at Northeast citygates, not many points ventured any farther than about a nickel up or down from flat. Weather turning milder again in several areas after going frigid at midweek was cited for the failure of most prices to extend Wednesday’s gains.
February 11, 2005
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