
July Nymex natural gas (NGN23) on Thursday closed up +0.023 (+0.99%).
July nat-gas Thursday recovered from early losses and closed moderately higher. July nat-gas prices Thursday initially whipsawed lower on Thursday's weekly EIA nat-gas inventory report. Nat-gas spiked higher briefly after the EIA report showed nat-gas inventories rose +104 bcf, below expectations of +114 bcf. However, prices then whipsawed lower as the +104 bcf increase was above the 5-year average for this time of year of +100 bcf.