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Catching the benefits of gas price volatility: four strategies for playing the market.
Almost every week, newspapers and magazines decry the volatility of natural gas prices and the havoc wreaked by that unpredictability. Any thoughtful examination of the gas market shows that the volatility is, in fact, undeniably large and dangerous for end users. However, commercial and industrial (C&I) end-users can benefit from patterns to the volatility.
Volatility
By virtually any measure, natural gas prices vary greatly. Natural gas prices in both futures and cash markets change an average of about 3% from the end of one business day to the next. That means that closing prices can easily vary 10% from week to week. For even a mid-sized C&I ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) October 7, 2009 700+ words
...are expected to drop 13.5 percent this year for natural gas customers, a decrease of about $23 a month for...attributed to the recession and lower wholesale natural gas prices. Natural gas is expected to cost 24 percent less this year than...
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The head of natural gas research at Wood Mackenzie, Jen Snyder, has warned of a prolonged period of significant weakness in US gas prices. "We expect US natural gas prices to trade in the range of $5 to $6/MMBtu for the next...
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...National news stories are focusing attention on rising energy costs across the country including natural gas prices. Wholesale natural gas prices in the core winter months this year have been double the price of the prior winter and current prices...
