Natural-gas prices dropped slightly Wednesday as weather forecasts show little potential for demand growth into mid-August. Prices for the front-month September contract settled down 3.8 cents, or 1%, at $3.786 a million British thermal units on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Prices closed within 4 cents of the eight-month low closing price the market set on Monday. Natural gas has now lost value in eight of the past 10 sessions, resuming a fall that took a brief respite Tuesday in the hour before the August contract expired. Analysts had warned that Tuesday’s rally might be short-lived, tied to expiration, and that traders would return to focusing on a bearish supply-demand dynamic. Weather forecasts have been unseasonably cool for weeks, showing little potential for demand to keep up with record supply. Without air conditioners running and using gas-fire electricity, producers have turned record production from unconventional […]