Natural gas barely budged Tuesday as traders expected a heat wave to subside, reducing demand for the fuel in June before above-normal temperatures return in July. Natural gas for July delivery settled up 0.2 cent at $4.709 a million British thermal units on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Forecasters said hot weather covering the Midwest and Eastern Seaboard was expected to pass Tuesday and Wednesday, followed by a return of cool weather over much of the country in the next five to 10 days. The heat wave had been expected to drive gas-fired demand for electricity to power air conditioners, which would divert production to immediate use and impede efforts to rebuild stockpiles depleted by the severe U.S. winter. The Southeast will remain hot and humid next week, but widespread hot temperatures aren’t expected to reach the central and eastern U.S. until […]