Natural gas futures

It won’t be death by a thousand cuts for natural gas. It’ll be far less than that after an increasingly bearish December weather outlook slashed another hefty chunk off natural gas prices to start the week, leaving prompt-month prices down about $1.20 since last Monday (Nov. 29). With production recovering from recent lows and sitting…

Coming off a stretch of relentless selling, natural gas futures recovered a small portion of their recent losses in early trading Tuesday as updated weather model runs trended modestly cooler. The January Nymex contract was up 10.9 cents to $3.766/MMBtu at around 8:50 a.m. ET. Among the potentially supportive factors for natural gas, EBW Analytics…

In an unsurprising move, natural gas futures bounced back from a four-day decline to finish the week firmly in positive territory. With a boost from technicals, colder changes in the weather models sparked a 7.6-cent rally for the January Nymex gas futures contract, which settled at $4.132. February also climbed 7.6 cents to $4.073. At…

Natural gas futures tumbled lower in early trading Monday, crashing through the $4/MMBtu barrier as weekend forecast trends further reduced already-mild weather-driven demand expectations. The January Nymex contract was down 38.4 cents to $3.748/MMBtu at around 8:50 a.m. ET. Both the American and European modeling agreed on forecast trends over the weekend that would cut…

In an unsurprising move, natural gas futures bounced back from a four-day decline to finish the week firmly in positive territory. With a boost from technicals, colder changes in the weather models sparked a 7.6-cent rally for the January Nymex gas futures contract, which settled at $4.132. February also climbed 7.6 cents to $4.073. At…

Natural gas futures could not hold onto early gains Thursday after the latest government storage data failed to generate any buzz in the market. Profit-taking managed to push January Nymex gas futures to a $4.335/MMBtu intraday high early in the session, but with a stubbornly mild weather forecast, the contract eventually settled at $4.056, down…

Against a backdrop of relentless selling earlier in the week, natural gas futures mounted a modest recovery in early trading Friday as weather models increased heating demand projections overnight. The January Nymex contract was up 11.7 cents to $4.173/MMBtu at around 8:50 a.m. ET. Both the American and European modeling increased gas-weighted degree day expectations…

The natural gas market returned from Thanksgiving seemingly ready to pull the plug on winter.  Amid forecasts insisting on a milder December pattern that would substantially mitigate risks of a winter supply crunch, natural gas forwards dropped sharply during the Nov. 24-Dec. 1 trading period, NGI’s Forward Look data show. Henry Hub fixed price forwards…

Natural gas futures could not hold onto early gains Thursday after the latest government storage data failed to generate any buzz in the market. Profit-taking managed to push January Nymex gas futures to a $4.335/MMBtu intraday high early in the session, but with a stubbornly mild weather forecast, the contract eventually settled at $4.056, down…