Monday, June 23rd saw the front-month NYMEX Natural Gas contract open at $3.815, $0.032 below Friday’s closing price of $3.847. Recording the intraday high of $3.831 within minutes of the opening bell, markets weighed numerous market drivers throughout the day. Prices moved lower to trade along $3.720 by 10:00AM as traders looked past the current heat wave, while also monitoring the escalating situation in the Middle East. Falling to the intraday low of $3.672 at 1:45PM, July closed lower on Monday at $3.698.
The EIA Natural Gas Storage Report published last Wednesday posted a 95 BCF injection to storage for the week ended June 12 – in line with the market estimate of a 94 BCF injection. Total working gas in storage was reported as 2,802 BCF; 7.7% below this time last year and 6.1% above the five-year average.
As of 7:35AM this morning in Globex, WTI Crude was down $2.280; Natural Gas was down $0.060; Heating Oil was down $0.091; and Gasoline was down $0.069.
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