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While numerous factors affect natural gas prices, the price floor rests on coal; that is, the economics of coal-fired power generation relative to gas-fired plants, Barclays Capital analysts said in a recent note.

Whether Enron Corp. founder Kenneth Lay does any jail time or pays any fines for allegedly violating banking rules now rests in the hands of U.S. District Judge Sim Lake. The case against Lay, who was charged with four counts of personal bank fraud, was completed on Tuesday.

Congress has clarified that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, not the states, has exclusive jurisdiction over the approval and siting of liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals.

Congress over the weekend clarified that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, not the states, has exclusive jurisdiction over the approval and siting of liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals.

Congress over the weekend clarified that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, not the states, has exclusive jurisdiction over the approval and siting of liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals.

The screen may have decided to take a breather Monday afterflexing its muscles so impressively last week, but the heated cashmarket showed no signs of settling down. Western quotes stagedtheir by-now-familiar retaking of ground lost over the weekend, andthis time they actually shared in the general bull market by risingin greater amounts than they had fallen on the previous Friday.Eastern points, on the other hand, continued to build on the upwardtrend they had seen all of last week.