July 30, 2018
On Friday, July 27
th – settlement day for the August Contract —the front-month NYMEX Natural Gas Futures Contracts opened at $2.805, three cents above Thursday’s closing price of $2.773. Unsettled trading early on saw the contract jump to either side of $2.805, sustaining Thursday’s storage induced momentum. Climbing to the intraday high of $2.831 at 2:10PM, the August contract settled higher on Friday at $2.822. The more actively traded September contract closed two cents higher at $2.782.
This morning in Globex, WTI Crude was up $1.40; Natural Gas was unchanged; Heating Oil was up one cent; and, Gasoline was up one cent. Additionally, cash prices were lower in New York and New England.
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