For those of you who have hedging needs to take care of over holidays, the trading calendars for NYMEX-CME and ICE energy products as well as the DOE-EIA statistics for the next two weeks are as follows:

NYMEX-CME

Dec 23: Trading floor closes early at 13:30 ET. Globex (electronic trading) will close at regular times for all products except crude, heating oil, gasoline and natural gas TAS (trade at settlement) products which close at 13:30 ET.

Dec 25: Globex closed.

Dec 26: Trading floor closed. Globex opens at 18:00 ET. 

Dec 30: Trading floor and Globex both close at regular times. 

Jan 2: Traidng floor closed. Globex open at 18:00 ET.

ICE

Dec 23: Crude & refined products close early at 14:00 ET.  Physical next day US natural gas trades for Dec 24-27.

Dec 26: All trading closed.

Dec 27: Crude & refined products open regular hours.

Dec 29: Physical next day US natural gas trades for Dec 30-31.

Dec 30: Crude & refined products close at 18:00 ET. Physical next day US natural gas trades for Jan 1-3.

Jan 2: All trading closed.

EIA

EIA's report of crude oil, distillate and gasoline stocks will be delayed one day to Thursday, December 29, at 11 AM ET. The report is normally released on Wednesday at 10:30 AM ET.   

EIA's report of crude oil, distillate and gasoline stocks will be delayed one day to Thursday, January 5, at 11 AM. The report is normally released on Wednesday at 10:30 AM ET.   

EIA's natural gas stocks report will be released as usual on Thursday, December 29 at 10:30 AM ET.  

EIA's natural gas stocks report will be released as usual on Thursday, January 5 at 10:30 AM ET.