Natural-gas prices closed lower for the second straight session as cool weather forecasts keep setting low expectations for demand starting next week The front-month October contract settled down 4.3 cents, or 1.1%, to $3.847 a million British thermal units on the New York Mercantile Exchange. After a two-day surge that broke $4/mmBtu last week, prices have fallen back into the 30-cent range they had traded in since July 18. Traders may have been too excited by a temporary burst of heat that is now hitting the country, said Jan Stuart, global energy economist at Credit Suisse Group AG. September just isn’t a hot enough month to get people to use so much air conditioning and gas-fired electricity that it would balance out the unrelenting production coming from the shale drilling boom, he said. “It makes you want to question […]