–Colder outlook for Midwest temperatures next week –Prices gain after 4.9% loss in past two days –Storage data Thursday expected to show large gain By David Bird NEW YORK–Natural-gas futures traded higher Wednesday, spurred by forecasts that Midwest temperatures next week will be even colder than earlier projected, boosting short-term home-heating demand. The gain follows a 4.9% decline over the past two days on longer-term outlooks that show the late October cold won’t continue into the winter months for much of the country. Traders said the market also was taking a pause between a double dose of weekly gas inventory reports from the Energy Information Administration this week. The EIA reported Tuesday that gas stocks rose by 77 billion cubic feet to 3.654 trillion cubic feet in the week ended Oct. 11. That report, delayed from last week because of the government shutdown, showed a larger rise than the […]