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March Nymex natural gas (NGH24) on Tuesday closed +0.023 (+1.12%). Nat-gas prices Tuesday recovered from an 8-3/4 month nearest-futures low and posted moderate gains. Fund buying emerged in nat-gas futures near significant support at $2/mmbtu, which sparked short covering and pushed prices higher. Nat-gas prices have sold off over the past three weeks as unseasonably warm U.S. temperatures have reduced heating demand for nat-gas. Also, an extended outage at an LNG export terminal in Texas threatens to limit U.S. nat-gas exports and boost domestic supplies. Atmospheric G2 said Tuesday that most…

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