Falling U.S. Natural Gas Prices Help Lower Inflation

Falling U.S. benchmark natural gas prices are easing some of the inflationary pressure in America as natural gas makes up around 25% of household energy needs, the AP notes. The benchmark U.S. natural gas prices have slumped to the lowest in years in recent weeks due to a mild start to January, consistently high supply, and an outage at the Freeport LNG export facility, which has raised the volume of gas available for domestic use since the fire at the plant in June last year.   The Henry Hub gas prices have slumped to around…