Nymex To Extend Natural Gas Trading Hours Tomorrow

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., will extend trading in its natural gas futures and options contracts to 2:45 PM from their regular closing time of 2:30 PM. in response to a change in schedule, due to the holidays, of the release by the American Gas Association (AGA) of results of its weekly storage survey report.

The rescheduling of the announcement coincides with the expiration of the January natural gas futures contract. The Exchange had previously announced that trading in natural gas futures and options will be extended until 2:45 whenever the expiration of natural gas futures occurs on a Wednesday, the regular release date of the AGA report.