January 12, 2018
Thursday, January 11
th saw the front-month NYMEX Natural Gas Futures Contracts open at $2.977, seven cents above Wednesday’s closing price of $2.906. The contract inched upward to exceed the $3.00 mark ahead of the weekly storage publication. The record-breaking withdrawal figure sent prices skyward for the balance of the day. Reaching the intraday high of $3.097 at 3:20PM, February proceeded to close nearly 18 cents higher on Thursday at $3.084.
The EIA Natural Gas Storage Report published on Thursday showed a 359 BCF withdrawal from storage for the week ended January 5
th – above the market estimate of 326 BCF. Total working gas in storage was reported as 2,767 BCF; 13% below this time last year and 12% below the five-year average.
This morning in Globex, WTI Crude was down 60 cents; Natural Gas was up eight cents; Heating Oil down one cent; and, Gasoline was down one cent.
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