The winter storm that has dumped snow across swaths of the country and disrupted travel hit the natural-gas markets Monday, lifting futures prices. Natural-gas futures for Febr

U.S. natural gas futures jumped to their biggest gain of the new year, as strong weather-driven demand is now seen extending well beyond mid-January. Freezing weather and snow storms across the U.S. could cause massive power outages and boost natural gas demand to its highest levels of the winter,

The US is bracing for a surge in natural gas demand as freezing weather and snowstorms threaten to cause widespread power outages, reported Reuters, citing energy analysts and reliability coordinators.

Natural-gas futures are tumbling following fresh forecasts that suggest January won't be quite as cold as traders believed late last month when