By FXEmpire.com

Analysis and Recommendations:

Natural Gas is trading at 2.897, adding 0.022 or .78% in today’s session. Higher temperature forecasts and the possibility of new tropical storm activity have added to the strength of NG. The most recent EIA inventory showed higher than expected inventories, but still a decline over the past few weeks.

With the Japanese request for exports of NG to Japan getting favorable support, a new channel for US natural gas, is helping to support prices.

After the release of the Chinese GDP, traders were able to breathe a sigh of relief and moved to more risk pushing up all commodities in today’s trading

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Economic Data July 13, 2012 actual v. forecast

Date

Time

Currency

Importance

Event

Actual

Forecast

Previous

Jul. 13

03:00

CNY

Chinese Fixed Asset Investment (YoY)

20.4%

20.1%

20.1%

03:00

CNY

Chinese GDP (YoY)

7.6%

7.6%

8.1%

03:00

CNY

Chinese Industrial Production (YoY)

9.5%

9.8%

9.6%

03:00

CNY

Chinese Retail Sales (YoY)

13.7%

13.5%

13.8%

05:30

JPY

Industrial Production (MoM)

-3.4%

-3.1%

-3.1%

08:15

CHF

PPI (MoM)

-0.3%

-0.4%

-0.2%

10:30

EUR

Italian 10-Year BTP Auction

5.82%

6.19%

13:30

USD

Core PPI (MoM)

2.0%

0.2%

0.2%

13:30

USD

PPI (MoM)

1.0%

-0.5%

-1.0%

14:55

USD

Michigan Consumer Sentiment

73.4

73.2

WEEKLY

  • Natural Gas Weekly Update
    Release Schedule: Thursday between 2:00 and 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Time)
  • Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report
    Release Schedule: Thursday at 10:30 (Eastern Time) (schedule)

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