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U.S. natural gas futures fell about 4% to a three-month low as oil and European gas prices dropped and forecasters called for milder U.S. weather over the next two weeks. Gas prices have declined for eight weeks as record domestic output and reduced LNG exports let utilities inject more gas into storage.
Milder weather cuts heating demand and record output keeps storage building, which weighs on natural gas prices. Lower gas costs also reduce the energy cost backdrop for feed processing.
reuters.comOct 18, 2022After 104 past bearish weather events, Natural Gas moved a median -7.8% over 5 sessions (22% higher; middle half -14.8% to -0.8%), and -3.3% over 20.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
Prices hit a three-month low as milder forecasts, record output and reduced LNG exports raised storage injections, a bearish supply/demand mechanism within the window.
