U.S. natural gas futures snapped a three-day losing streak and edged higher on Thursday following a government report showing a weekly storage build that was slightly below estimates. The U.S. Energy Information Administration said utilities added 54 billion cubic feet of gas into storage during the week ended on Oct. 28, pushing the total amount of fuel in stock to a record high of 3.963 trillion cubic feet at the end of the injection season. [EIA/GAS] However, the weekly injection was just shy of the analysts’ consensus estimate of 56 bcf in a Reuters poll and smaller than builds of 73 bcf in the prior week and 58 bcf a year earlier, as well as the five-year average of 63 bcf. Traders said expectations that the power sector would boost gas usage over the next two weeks now that the fuel was again cheaper than coal also helped stop […]