Tuesday, February 25th saw the front-month NYMEX Natural Gas Futures Contract open at $4.032, up $0.038 compared to Monday’s closing price of $3.994. Trading along $4.035 throughout the morning, prices touched down to the intraday low of $3.995 at 10:25AM. Posting a late day rally as traders shifted focus to squaring their positions ahead of settlement and the impending storage withdrawal, the contract rose to tally an intraday high of $4.177 ahead of 2:30PM. March closed higher on Tuesday at $4.174.
The more actively traded April contract finished $0.148 higher to close at $4.130.
The EIA Natural Gas Storage Report is due out Thursday at 10:30AM. The report is expected to show a 271 BCF withdrawal from storage for the week ended February 21. This compares to a 96 BCF withdrawal this time last year and a five-year average withdrawal amount of 79 BCF.
As of 6:35AM this morning in Globex, WTI Crude was down $0.040; Natural Gas was up $0.016; Heating Oil was down $0.016; and Gasoline was flat.
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