Friday, December 26, 2014
Natural gas prices slump to lowest level since 2012
(star-telegram.com) - Natural gas slumped below $3 per million British thermal units for the first time since 2012 on speculation that record production will overwhelm demand for the heating fuel.
Futures settled at the lowest in 27 months and have plunged 26 percent in December, heading for the biggest one-month drop since July 2008, as mild weather and record production erased a surplus to year-ago levels for the first time in two years. Temperatures are expected to be mostly above average in the eastern half of the U.S. through Dec. 30, according to Commodity Weather Group.
“We don’t see anything scary in the forecast,” said Stephen Schork, president of Schork Group, a consulting group in Villanova, Pennsylvania. “You had this psyche where people were worried about a polar vortex. We had a cold October and a cold early November, and boom, if you were long you are wrong.”
Natural gas for January delivery fell 2.3 cents to settle at $3.007 per million Btu on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Futures touched $2.973, the lowest intraday price since Sept. 26, 2012.
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