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This week’s presidential election wasn’t the only thing sending shockwaves through the natural gas industry. Persistently mild weather and expectations of bearish storage news once again took a toll on natural gas forwards markets, which swung wildly between Nov. 4 and 9 and ultimately slid about 8 cents on average, according to NGI’s Forward Look.

This week’s presidential election wasn’t the only thing sending shockwaves through the natural gas industry. Persistently mild weather and expectations of bearish storage news once again took a toll on natural gas forwards markets, which swung wildly between Nov. 4 and 9 and ultimately slid about 8 cents on average, according to NGI’s Forward Look.

Just days before Halloween, November natural gas forwards prices in playing the part of Ichabod Crane fell off their high horse — tumbling an average of 18.5 cents between Oct. 21 and 27 — as the humdrum of shoulder season gripped the market and gas storage inventories closed in on last year’s record-breaking levels, according to NGI’s Forward Look.

Natural gas forwards markets wiped out last week’s gains, plunging some 16 cents on average between Oct. 14 and 20, as the market continues to wait for cold weather to arrive and grapples with record storage inventories.

October natural gas forward prices climbed as much as 7 cents between Sept. 16 and 22 as continuous power burn growth, strong cash prices and ongoing nuclear outages kept a firm grip on the market, even in the face of a relatively bearish storage report, according to NGI’s Forward Look.

October natural gas forward prices climbed as much as 7 cents between Sept. 16 and 22 as continuous power burn growth, strong cash prices and ongoing nuclear outages kept a firm grip on the market, even in the face of a relatively bearish storage report, according to NGI’s Forward Look.

The fall shoulder season may be just around the corner, but some unexpected maintenance events that cut both nuclear generation and production this week helped send natural gas October futures and forward prices up more than 10 cents on average from Sept. 9 to 15, NGI Forward Look shows.

Even though natural gas forwards prices were up just 2 cents on average between Sept. 2 and 8, the short holiday week proved to be quite jarring as a surprise storage report lit a fire under forward curves that had appeared to be settling into shoulder season in the days prior to its release, NGI Forward Look data shows.

September got off to a decidedly bearish start as a much larger-than-expected natural gas storage injection and the upcoming holiday weekend combined to pull natural gas forwards markets down by an average of more than 10 cents between Aug. 26 and Sept. 1, according to NGI’s Forward Look.