February NYMEX Natural Gas Futures Contract Closed at $3.660 on Thursday, January 2nd

Thursday, January 2nd saw the front-month NYMEX Natural Gas Futures Contract open at $3.670, up $0.037 compared to Tuesday’s closing price of $3.633. In a volatile day of trading, winter temperatures forecasted to cover much of the country and strong LNG demand helped to keep the contract elevated. Recording the intraday low of $3.634 at 10:45AM, prices surged through midday to achieve the intraday high of $3.801 at 12:30PM. Pulling back to opening price territory soon thereafter, February closed higher on Thursday at $3.660.

The EIA Natural Gas Storage Report is due out Friday at 10:30AM. The report is expected to show a 127 BCF withdrawal from storage for the week ended December 27. This compares to a 35 BCF withdrawal this time last year and a five-year average withdrawal amount of 104 BCF.

As of 7:15AM this morning in Globex, WTI Crude was down $0.150; Natural Gas was down $0.161; Heating Oil was down $0.016, and Gasoline was down $0.001.

                                                                                                 
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