Natural-gas futures fell Thursday on a weekly inventory report showing that supplies rose more than expected last week. Futures for August delivery settled down 6.4 cents, or 2.2%, at $2.854 a million British thermal units on the New York Mercantile Exchange. U.S. natural-gas inventories grew by 99 billion cubic feet in the week ended July 10, the Energy Information Administration said Thursday, more than the 95 bcf that analysts surveyed by The Wall Street Journal had expected. Stockpiles now stand at 2.767 trillion cubic feet, 2.7% above the five-year average for the week. “Rapidly growing storage levels are hard to ignore,” said energy-advisory firm Gelber & Associates in a note. “At this pace, we expect jam-packed storage to be a driver of market action come this autumn.” Moderate weather and robust production in the first half of the summer have kept the market well-supplied, but […]