What Sent Natural Gas Prices Plunging?
Stocks managed to eke out
gains while
Treasuries finished lower today.
Equity
The Nasdaq
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at 9283.
Fixed Income
U.S. Treasuries were significantly lower after a stellar showing
on the July retail sales data. The 10
year futures contract
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was up by -09 to close at 104-26; and the five year note was down by 0-085 at 111-065
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Metals
August gold
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up by .5 at 503.5. Copper was
up by .65 at 79.85
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.6600.
Energy
August crude
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to close at 31.09. Natural gas was down .288 to close at 4.891
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after national inventories rose higher than expected to 2.188 trillion cubic
feet of gas..
Currencies
The USD index
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at 96.82.