Natural-gas futures climbed to a four-week high as traders focused on forecasts calling for another late-season cold snap and fretted about a potentially disappointing storage report due Thursday. Natural gas for May delivery settled up 5.2 cents, or 1.2%, at $4.5860 a million British thermal units, the highest since March 11, on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Lower-than-average temperatures in the U.S. are expected to persist over the next week or two, supporting the need for gas to heat homes. Market observers appear divided over the ability of producers to replenish stockpiles that were depleted during the recent harsh winter. Energy-advisory firm Gelber & Associates said traders are “trying to make sense of tomorrow’s storage report, expected to be the first injection of the season.” A survey of 20 analysts by The Wall Street Journal predicted the report would show 13.75 billion cubic feet of […]