
Sep Nymex natural gas (NGU24) on Monday closed up by +0.112 (+5.28%).
Sep nat-gas prices Monday recovered from a 1-week low and closed sharply higher. Short covering emerged in nat-gas futures Monday, and prices soared after weather forecasts called for hotter US temperatures that would boost nat-gas demand from electricity providers to run air conditioning. Forecaster Atmospheric G2 said Monday that forecasts shifted hotter for the eastern two-thirds of the US for August 24-18.