Natural Gas: Green Shoots (XNG)

Just as the copper stocks were what clued us on the last 13 weeks of the copper move*, the natural gas stocks are trading higher as the commodity dawdles. Here are the components of the Amex Natural Gas Index (up 1.35%) on a day NG fell 2.3 cents, or 0.6 percent, to settle at $3.708**:

COMPONENTS FOR ^XNG

Symbol Name Last Trade Change Volume APA Apache Corp. 83.99 4:01PM ET 0.29 (0.35%) 3,421,009 APC Anadarko Petroleum Corp 49.42 4:02PM ET 0.96 (1.98%) 6,126,086 CHK Chesapeake Energy Corp. 23.92 4:01PM ET 1.04 (4.55%) 19,482,512 DVN Devon Energy Corp. (New) 63.75 4:02PM ET 0.40 (0.62%) 5,484,786 EOG EOG Resources, Inc. 75.25 4:00PM ET 0.60 (0.80%) 3,649,998 EP El Paso Corp. 10.22 4:02PM ET 0.29 (2.92%) 11,245,030 GAS NICOR Inc. 34.41 4:01PM ET 0.21 (0.61%) 446,806 NBL Noble Energy, Inc. 66.30 4:02PM ET 0.20 (0.30%) 1,780,312 NFG National Fuel Gas Co. (NJ) 34.93 4:01PM ET 0.44 (1.28%) 431,495 NI NiSource Inc. (Holding Co.) 11.12 4:03PM ET 0.17 (1.55%) 6,140,130 STR Questar Corp. 34.99 4:01PM ET 1.37 (4.07%) 2,021,475 SWN Southwestern Energy Company 42.35 4:03PM ET 0.42 (0.98%) 4,958,305 UPL Ultra Petroleum Corp. 46.89 4:00PM ET 1.23 (2.69%) 1,903,612 WMB Williams Cos Inc (The) 17.05 4:02PM ET 0.20 (1.19%) 5,651,003 XTO XTO Energy, Inc. 41.64 4:00PM ET 0.38 (0.92%) 7,393,431

*See March 12's "Gold & silver vs. copper & uranium".

**Bloomberg headlines at 8:42pm EDT:
Natural Gas Declines in New York as Supply Gains Expand Surplus
BP Says Weak Economy to Keep Gas Prices ‘Depressed’ (Update2)