Natural-gas prices narrowly ended their five-session losing streak Wednesday as bargain shoppers boosted the market on a light trading day. Prices for the front-month June contract rose 0.9 cent, or 0.2%, to $4.367 a million British thermal units on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Prices had fallen 9.2% from the prior five sessions, luring back some buyers who believed the low price would increase demand, analysts said. But mostly traders stayed out of the market on what turned out to be the slowest trading day in at least two years. Trading volume was less than half of what it had been on the previous slowest day of 2014. Recently traders have been hesitant to act before the weekly government update on natural gas stockpiles, which comes out Thursday at 10:30 a.m., analysts said. The update has been playing a critical role in the gas market […]