Author: Madison’s Lumber Reporter

  • US Housing Starts, Existing Home Sales, Home Construction

    Home builders in the US cut back slightly on new construction in the final month of 2015, though they built the most homes last year since 2007. Housing starts fell 2.5 per cent last month to an annual rate of 1.15 million, the US Commerce Department said Wednesday. For the full year home builders started…

  • Canada Investment in Construction: 4Q and Nov 2015

    Investment in Canadian non-residential building construction reached $12.6 billion in 4Q, down 1.7 per cent from the previous quarter, according to Statistics Canada Monday. Investment in Canadian residential construction rose 2.2 per cent to $4.3 billion in November compared with the same month in 2014, said StatsCan Thursday. Higher construction spending on apartment and apartment-condominium…

  • Canada Investment in Construction: 4Q and Nov 2015

    Investment in Canadian non-residential building construction reached $12.6 billion in 4Q, down 1.7 per cent from the previous quarter, according to Statistics Canada Monday. Investment in Canadian residential construction rose 2.2 per cent to $4.3 billion in November compared with the same month in 2014, said StatsCan Thursday. Higher construction spending on apartment and apartment-condominium…

  • Timber Revenues and Returns 2015

    CatchMark Timber Trust: Analysts Take Wall Street research analysts are predicting that CatchMark Timber Trust, Inc. (NYSE:CTT) will post earnings per share of US$0.14 when the firm next issues their quarterly results. According to the latest information, the firm should release the report on or around 2016-02-22. This is according to data compliled by Zack’s…

  • North America Timber Revenue and Returns 2015

    Some reports and analysis of North America’s timber finance 2015 are examined. Acadian Timber Is A Prime Beneficiary Of Positive Macro Trends And Canadian Subsidies Nicholas Bodnar — Seeking Alpha Summary • Acadian Timber is an overlooked Canadian microcap lumber company, with some of the highest margins in the industry. • Currently the company is…