Monday, November 3rd saw the front-month NYMEX Natural Gas contract open at $4.163, $0.039 above Friday’s closing price of $4.124. Pulling back through the opening hour to record the intraday low of $4.110 at 9:55AM, the contract proceeded to mount a rally that would span into the afternoon. Tallying a fresh seven-month intraday high of $4.290 at 12:30PM, traders were emboldened by near-record LNG demand and long-term forecasts for below average temperatures to start December. Trading largely sideways to close out the day, December closed higher on Monday at $4.266.
The EIA Natural Gas Storage Report published last Thursday posted a 74 BCF injection to storage for the week ended October 24 – even with the market estimate of a 74 BCF injection. Total working gas in storage was reported as 3,882 BCF; 0.8% above this time last year and 4.6% above the five-year average.
As of 6:15AM this morning in Globex, WTI Crude was down $1.020; Natural Gas was down $0.031; Heating Oil was down $0.025; and Gasoline was down $0.024.
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