Natural-gas prices fell Wednesday on concerns that hot weather in the next two weeks will be insufficient to shrink growing stockpiles. The natural-gas market is oversupplied following a winter of weak demand, and analysts expect inventories of natural gas to hit a new record later this year. The Energy Information Administration is due to release inventory data for the week ended Sept. 9 on Thursday. Analysts surveyed by The Wall Street Journal expect the agency to report that stockpiles grew by 60 billion cubic feet in the week. If the storage estimate is correct, inventories as of Sept. 9 would total 3.497 trillion cubic feet, 5.5% above levels from a year ago and 9.3% above the five-year average for the same week. Forecasts released Wednesday showed hotter weather in the next six to 10 days, including temperatures above 80 degrees Fahrenheit in the Midwest and East and possibly […]