Wednesday, July 27th saw the August NYMEX Natural Gas Futures Contract open at $8.651, thirty-four cents below Tuesday’s closing price of $8.993. With limited trading on its settlement day, the August contract settled lower at $8.687.
The more actively traded September contract opened at $8.542, twenty-eight cents below Tuesday’s price. Achieving an intraday high of $8.750 at 9:30AM and an intraday low of $8.345 at 12:40PM, August closed lower on Wednesday at $8.554.
The EIA Natural Gas Storage Report is due out on Thursday at 10:30AM. The report is expected to show a 19 BCF injection to storage for the week ended July 22. This compares to a 36 BCF injection at this time last year and a five-year average injection amount of 32 BCF.
As of 7:35AM EST this morning in Globex, WTI Crude was up $2.28; Natural Gas was down 13 cents; Heating Oil was up eight cents; and Gasoline was up one cent.
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