Wednesday, October 9th saw the front-month NYMEX Natural Gas Futures Contract open at $2.706, down $0.027 compared to Tuesday’s closing price of $2.733. Posting a downward trend throughout the day, a brief jump to the intraday high of $2.724 at 9:30AM was all the bears would give as Hurricane Milton reduced demand in Florida. Recording the intraday low of $2.632 at 1:00PM, November closed lower on Wednesday at $2.660.
The EIA Natural Gas Storage Report is due out on Thursday at 10:30 AM. The report is expected to show a 76 BCF injection to storage for the week ended October 4th. This compares to an 84 BCF injection this time last year and a five-year average injection amount of 96 BCF.
As of 7:10AM this morning in Globex, WTI Crude was up $1.020; Natural Gas was down $0.029; Heating Oil was up $0.027, and Gasoline was up $0.024
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