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Home Building, Canada and US
In a shiny fresh new year, home building activity in Canada and the US continues along the waffly path each experienced in 2014. Curiosity about where home building will be through this year abounds. Much of the growth in multi-residential starts came from a jump in construction of rental apartments in Edmonton, which hit a…
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Construction Employment, US
Construction employers in the US added 39,000 jobs in January and 308,000 over the past year, reaching the highest employment total since February 2009, as the sector’s unemployment rate fell to 9.8 per cent, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America Monday. US construction employment totaled 6,314,000 in January, the highest…
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Japan 2014 North American Log Imports
Japan’s total import of North American logs in 2014 was 3,047 million cubic metres, a 10.8 per cent drop compared to the previous year. Log imports in 2013 had increased, by 14 per cent over 2012, due to looming tax hike last year. North American Timber Market 2014: Japan Kure and Kashima remain the top…
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Canada Monthly Survey of Manufacturing: Dec 2014
Canada’s manufacturing sales rose 1.7 per cent in December, despite a 9.3 per cent drop in sales of petroleum and coal products, said Statistics Canada Friday. Excluding the petroleum and coal product industry, manufacturing sales were up 3.2 per cent. The gain reflected higher sales in the transportation equipment industry Overall, sales were higher in…
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Japan 2014 Housing Starts
Japan’s housing starts in December 2014 were 76,416 units, down 14.7 per cent from the same month in the previous year, according to Japan Lumber Journal Monday. Total housing starts in Japan for 2014 were 892,261 units, down 9 per cent over one year ago. It was the first drop in five years but level…
