Natural-gas futures eased Monday as traders took profits from last week’s rally. Natural gas for May delivery fell 4.4 cents, or 0.9%, to $4.697 per million British thermal units on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The drop came after gas prices climbed almost 5% Thursday–the final trading day of last week–on concerns that stockpiles of the fuel were refilling more slowly than expected. There was no news about supplies or the weather on Monday that would have obviously encouraged a downturn in prices, leading traders and analysts to believe the selloff came from some traders cashing out gains. “It’s just a quiet market now drifting lower. There was no impetus,” said Scott Gettleman, an independent trader in New York. Several Wall Street analysts said it was a bad idea to bet on lower prices when the country’s stockpile is only slowly rebuilding from an 11-year […]