What Pushed Natural Gas Prices Higher Today?
Stocks managed to eke out
another day of gains while
Treasuries finished today.
Equity
The Nasdaq
future
(
NDU3 |
Quote |
Chart |
News |
PowerRating) was up 15.50 1302.50. The S&P 500 contract
(
SPU3 |
Quote |
Chart |
News |
PowerRating) was up 4.25 to close at 1002.00, and the Dow
(
DJU3 |
Quote |
Chart |
News |
PowerRating) was up 20
at 9422.
Fixed Income
U.S. Treasuries were higher today. The 10
year futures contract
(
TYU3 |
Quote |
Chart |
News |
PowerRating) was up -290 to close at 112-000; the 30 year
(
USU3 |
Quote |
Chart |
News |
PowerRating)
was up by 1-19 to close at 107-11; and the five year note was up by 0-135 at 112-030
(
FVU3 |
Quote |
Chart |
News |
PowerRating).
Metals
August gold
(
GCQ3 |
Quote |
Chart |
News |
PowerRating) was up by 3.10 at 362.10. Silver
(
SIU3 |
Quote |
Chart |
News |
PowerRating) was
up by 6.80 at 499.5. Copper was
up by .65 at 90.25
(
HGU03 |
Quote |
Chart |
News |
PowerRating), and aluminum
(
ALU03 |
Quote |
Chart |
News |
PowerRating) was up by .0070
.6600 after a better than expected showing on today’s housing starts data..
Energy
August crude
(
CL03Q |
Quote |
Chart |
News |
PowerRating) oil was down by .19
to close at 30.70 after US inventories rose for a fourth consecutive week. Natural gas,
on the other hand, was up by .081 to close at 4.964
(
NG03Q |
Quote |
Chart |
News |
PowerRating) as demand for
power-plant fuel increased amid hot-weather in the Northeast and Midwest..
Currencies
The USD index
(
DX03M |
Quote |
Chart |
News |
PowerRating) was higher by .03 to close
at 97.48.