Natural-gas futures fell Thursday after a larger-than-expected increase in stockpiles eased some of the concern about a potential shortage of the heating fuel next winter. Natural gas for May delivery fell 2.5 cents, or 0.5%, at $4.705 a million British thermal units on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Prices rose in early morning trading, then fell after the U.S. Energy Information Administration said stockpiles increased last week at a faster-than-expected pace. Producers added 49 billion cubic feet of gas to storage for the week ended April 18, according to the EIA. That is 7 bcf more than what 21 traders, brokers and analysts had forecast in a Wall Street Journal survey. The addition leaves 899 billion cubic feet in storage. While that is more than experts predicted, it is still less than half of the 1.9 trillion cubic feet of gas that is typically in […]