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An unconfirmed tweet about Freeport LNG is upending gas markets

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Re: An unconfirmed tweet about Freeport LNG is upending gas markets

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Commodity traders and investors are very networked and really like such immediate usage news. Many firms also count trucks/traffic near sites etc. so it isn't surprising to see people respond to this.

However, the causation is unclear to me. European gas stocks are at full capacity as is and this Winter is warm with minimal gas burned so far. A 7% drop is par for course in the last few weeks. An extra piece of bad news wouldn't necessarily lead to this - though it could perhaps amplify it to some extent.

You'd have to compare message posting time, look at the views/readership of that tweet etc. That said, this is relatively straight forward and included in many sentiment analysis engines.

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