August 29, 2018
Tuesday, August 28
th saw the front-month NYMEX Natural Gas Futures Contracts open at $2.874 nearly even to Monday’s closing price of $2.876. A modest intraday high of $2.875 near 9:00AM soon gave way to continue the previous session’s decline as prices recorded the intraday low of $2.849 at 11:20AM. With today’s settlement looming and demand waning, the contract fluctuated along $2.855 into the afternoon as September closed lower on Tuesday at $2.852. The more actively traded October contract closed roughly two cents lower at $2.845.
This morning in Globex, WTI Crude was up 55 cents; Natural Gas was down two cents; Heating Oil was up one cent; and, Gasoline was up one cent.
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