Fizzling

eNymex Shelved; Exchange Plans Face Lift for Fizzling Power Futures

The party is over, but after three years the chip and punch bowls are still full. The electricity futures contracts on the New York Mercantile Exchange never really attracted a crowd, and Nymex President J. Robert Collins Jr. finally called it quits last Thursday on six electricity contracts: California-Oregon Border, Palo Verde, Cinergy, Entergy, PJM and Mid-Columbia.

February 18, 2002

Futures Correction Continues Amid Bearish Weather

What do you get when you pair a fizzling Gulf Coast tropicalstorm with mild temperatures across much of the U.S.? If youanswered “lower natural gas prices,” then you were right yesterday.

August 16, 2000