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US Housing Starts: November 2015
New-home construction in the US rebounded in November, led by gains in single-family dwellings that signal the residential real estate industry will continue to support growth in the world’s largest economy. Housing starts climbed 10.5 per cent to a 1.17 million annualized rate, from a 1.06 million pace in October, figures from the Commerce Department…
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US Economy and Economic Indicators
This week new research was released on the current makeup of the US middle class, the continuing commodities price slump, other — more general — US economic indicators provide a somewhat less murky, if still muted, projection of the health of the US economy over the next year or two. Said Bill McBride in his…
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US Economy and Economic Indicators
This week new research was released on the current makeup of the US middle class, the continuing commodities price slump, other — more general — US eco- nomic indicators provide a somewhat less murky, if still muted, projection of the health of the US economy over the next year or two. Pew Research Center Analysis…
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Biomass Fuel Production
Cellufuel moved into the former Bowater Mersey paper plant in Brooklyn, NS, after the plant closed in 2012, throwing around 2,000 people out of work, according to CBC Friday. Since then, Cellufuel has been developing biofuel that could be used in vehicles and for heating. The plant transforms otherwise low-value wood fibre into renewable diesel…
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Interfor Restarts Sawmill
Interfor Corporation, out of Vancouver, BC, has resumed operations at its saw- mill in Georgetown, SC, following record rainfalls and extensive flooding in the area over the past two months, as the company said in the press release Thursday. During the height of the rainstorms from October 1-5, two feet of rain fell in Georgetown…
