Natural gas futures clawed back much of their early session losses on Monday, staging a notable recovery after November contracts initially plunged to a six-month low. Despite the late-day bounce that helped pare steeper losses, the broader market sentiment remained largely bearish, with most winter strip contracts finishing the session lower. The downward pressure was […]
New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) natural gas futures floundered at midday on Friday, weighed down as traders gave significantly more weight to weak near-term weather demand than to the fundamentally solid liquefied natural gas (LNG) export activity that has otherwise offered underlying support to the market. The intraday pressure on the commodity highlights the delicate […]
November natural gas futures capped a punishing week on Friday, extending their sharp sell-off as increasingly warm weather forecasts pointed toward sluggish heating demand and a potentially growing supply cushion that could keep prices under heavy downward pressure as the market transitions deeper into the winter injection and withdrawal cycle. The latest session losses underscore […]
Natural gas futures advanced during early trading on Thursday, driven by market participants positioning themselves ahead of an anticipated bullish government storage report. Traders weighed the strong underlying demand from the liquefied natural gas (LNG) sector against looming supply constraints, notably a key pipeline outage that threatens to restrict future inventory injections across the domestic […]