Friday, October 18th saw the front-month NYMEX Natural Gas Futures Contract open at $2.327, down $0.020 compared to Thursday’s closing price of $2.347. Trending lower early on as comfortable conditions covered key areas of the country, prices stabilized near $2.270 by 10:30AM. Trading sideways along this mark for the balance of the session as traders await the next market catalyst, November closed lower on Friday at $2.258; down 14.2% on the week.
The EIA Natural Gas Storage Report published last Thursday showed a 76 BCF injection to storage for the week ended October 11 – in line with the market estimate of a 79 BCF injection. Total working gas in storage was reported as 3,705 BCF; 3.0% above this time last year and 4.6% above the five-year average.
As of 7:30 AM this morning in Globex, WTI Crude was up $1.53; Natural Gas was up $0.054; Heating Oil was up $0.036, and Gasoline was up $0.036.
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