United States Natural Gas Fund, LP (NASDAQ:UNG) and ProShares Ultra Bloomberg Natural Gas (NASDAQ:BOIL) shares are trading sharply lower during Monday's session in symapthy with natural gas futures, with warmer-than-anticipated weather forecasts largely to blame. The April natural gas contract is down some 13.49% to $2.61 Monday morning.
Per a Monday report from Natural Gas Intelligence, anticipated March cold that had othwerwise sharply lifted the natural gas April contract to and above the $3-level last week has been negated following lower-than-expected heating from forecasts over the weekend.
Data from NatGasWeather meanwhile says the American weather model lost a staggering 25 heating degree days (HDD) from the 15-day weather forecast. The European model dropped 32 HDD from the outlook.
According to data from Benzinga Pro:
- BOIL is trading lower by 25.00% to $5.90
- UNG is lower by 13.82% to $8.52