NEW YORK — Natural-gas prices fell Thursday as traders brushed off a decline in supplies that followed a blast of cold weather over a large part of the country from the Northeast to Florida.
Natural gas for January delivery fell 17.4 cents to settle at $4.048 per 1,000 cubic feet on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The price is down almost 8 percent in the past week.
Meanwhile, the national average for regular gasoline held steady at $2.984 a gallon Thursday, according to AAA, Wright Express and the Oil Price Information Service. That’s about 9 cents higher than a month ago and 39 cents more than a year ago. In Denver, prices averaged $2.691, up a half-cent from Wednesday and 3 cents higher than a month ago. The Associated Press; Bloomberg News photo
