Natural-gas futures narrowly ended a three-session skid Monday as weather-related demand highlighted doubts about producers’ abilities to replenish stockpiles. Prices for the front-month June contract rose 1.4 cents, or 0.3%, to $4.688 a million British thermal units on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Monday’s incremental gain puts natural gas back within 3% of the two-month high it hit early last week before the string of losses. Natural gas prices have stayed relatively flat day-to-day as traders are divided about the dueling influences of record supply and growing demand. Unseasonably high temperatures that are pushing demand for air conditioning and gas-fired electricity helped prices rise as high as $4.73/mmBtu Monday morning, but those gains faded in the afternoon. “I’m still a little surprised,” said Kyle Cooper, managing director of research at IAF Advisors, a Houston consulting firm. “The market just seems very, very complacent.” Cooper and […]