January NYMEX Natural Gas Futures Contract Closed at $3.455 on Thursday, December 12th

Thursday, December 12th saw the front month NYMEX Natural Gas Futures Contract open at $3.365, down $0.013 compared to Wednesday’s closing price of $3.378. Falling to the intraday low $3.342 at 10:00AM, prices recovered to opening territory leading up 10:30AM. Propelled upward by the bullish withdrawal figure, traders overlooked steady production as the contract rose to tally an intraday high of $3.559 shortly after 1:00PM. January closed higher on Thursday at $3.455.

The EIA Natural Gas Storage Report published on Thursday showed a 190 BCF withdrawal from storage for the week ended December 6 – above the market estimate of a 163 BCF injection. Total working gas in storage was reported as 3,747 BCF; 1.8% above this time last year and 4.6% above the five-year average.

As of 7:20AM this morning in Globex, WTI Crude was up $0.630; Natural Gas was down $0.029; Heating Oil was up $0.018, and Gasoline was up $0.016.

                                                                                                 
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