Natural Gas Stands to Heat Up Energy Stocks
Some like it hot -- energy investors, for example.
A basket of U.S. oil-and-gas producers has trailed the S&P 500 by 9.4 percentage points in the year to date, dashing stock-market optimism following November's election. But a balmy summer could help.
U.S. benchmark crude prices are down by more than one-fifth since briefly topping $80 a barrel shortly before Inauguration Day. While oil got most of the attention, natural gas looked like a potential saving grace for the industry.
A cold winter...
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