Thursday, September 22nd saw the October NYMEX Natural Gas Futures Contract open at $7.662, twelve cents below Wednesday’s closing price of $7.779. Achieving the intraday high of $7.728 by 9:15AM, prices hovered near $7.630 leading up to the weekly storage publication. Directed lower following the bearish injection and comfortable shoulder-month conditions, the contract tumbled to a two-month intraday low of $7.061 ahead of 2:30PM. October closed lower on Thursday at $7.089.
The EIA Natural Gas Storage Report published on Thursday showed a 103 BCF injection to storage for the week ended September 16 – above the market estimate of 94 BCF. Total working gas in storage was reported as 2,874 BCF; 6.4% below this time last year and 10.4% below the five-year average.
As of 7:25AM EST this morning in Globex, WTI Crude was down $2.93; Natural Gas was up one cent; Heating Oil was down 13 cents; and Gasoline was down 11 cents.
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