As updated forecasts showing generally mild March temperatures continued to offer little support for prices, natural gas futures were down a couple cents in early trading Wednesday. The April Nymex contract was off 2.0 cents to $2.642/MMBtu at around 8:50 a.m. ET.

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The latest forecast from Bespoke Weather Services early Wednesday showed an overall warmer-trending 15-day outlook, including warmer changes from the Midwest to the Northeast for next weekend into the following week.

Aside from strong warmth over the next couple of days, “the pattern still does not deviate too far from normal, though we have moved the 11-15 day time frame a little on the warm side with today’s changes,” Bespoke said. “…Longer range expectations remain for a warm lean late month into April,...