The NYMEX January natural gas futures contract settled at $1.990/MMBtu Friday, down 2.5 cents. A prompt-month contract has not settled lower since reaching $1.975/MMBtu on April 24, 2012. The fall in the January contract comes as the ...
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The volume of US natural gas traded during bidweek is poised for its fourth straight year-on-year decline as banks and other large players pull back from the monthly baseload market, according to a Platts examination of ...
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An explosion Wednesday at Williams' 1.5-Bcf/d Opal Processing Plant in Wyoming was continuing to significantly cut into Rockies flows Thursday and helped lift Western spot gas and forwards prices. Prior to the incident, Opal plant ...
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US Northeast spot natural gas prices continue to trade at parity or a premium to New York Harbor fuel oil prices as cold weather blankets the region. Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line zone-6 New York spot gas was trading around $18.69/MMBtu ...
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US Northeast spot gas prices were trading above New York Harbor fuel oil prices Tuesday as a cold snap descended upon the eastern US. Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line zone-6 New York spot gas was trading around $22/MMBtu Tuesday on ...
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If cross-border rules currently proposed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission are not harmonized, international derivatives markets could be damaged, according to exchange executives and ...
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Prices fell at the front of the curve in all over-the-counter US coal contracts assessed by Platts on Tuesday, with the Central Appalachian barge and rail (CSX) markets both having an ample volume of contracts cleared. In the CAPP rail ...
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US Northeast spot gas prices fell as much as $4 or 39% Friday on expectations that weather demand will fade due to an impeding warm-up scheduled to start on Monday. Regional temperatures will top out in the high 30s over the weekend, ...
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Coal traders returned to their posts on Wednesday, snapping the streak of low volume sessions in the US over-the-counter thermal coal market since the Christmas holiday. Central Appalachian barge and rail (CSX) contracts, as well as ...
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IntercontinentalExchange's planned acquisition of NYSE Euronext, announced Thursday, will expand opportunities for trading between energy and equity products as well as give control of successful agricultural products to the Atlanta-based ...
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. (JPMCB) agreed to pay a $600,000 civil monetary penalty to settle CFTC charges that it exceeded speculative position limits in Cotton No. 2 ...
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Spot natural gas prices in New England jumped more than$4 at some points Monday,sending prices above$12/MMBtu on IntercontinentalExchange. The Algonquin Gas Transmission city-gates averaged$12.52/MMBtu at 9:58 a.m.EST,an increase ...
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Manufacturing in the New York region unexpectedly expanded in November, as measures of shipments and the employee workweek improved. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s general economic index rose to 0.6, the first positive reading ...
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