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Timberland: North America and Global
This annual timberland investment conference, held at the World Forestry Center in Portland, OR, is growing in attendance each year. As always, the event had an excellent line-up of speakers this week. The World Forestry Center is a not-for-profit organization. Who Will Own the Forest 10? This week was held the tenth annual “Who Will…
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US Housing Starts
Building of single-family units in the United States, roughly two-thirds of the market, fell a modest 2.4 per cent in August, Commerce Department figures showed Thursday. Home construction fell last month after surging to a post-recession high in July, a sign of choppy progress in the housing market. Total US housing starts fell 14.4 per…
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Canada Wholesale Trade
Following three consecutive monthly gains, wholesale sales in Canada decreased 0.3 per cent to $52.9 billion in July, said Statistics Canada Friday. Declines in five subsectors, which together represented 81 per cent of wholesale sales, more than offset an increase in the motor vehicle and parts subsector. Excluding this subsector, wholesale sales declined 1 per…
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Manufacturing Survey, US
The pace of growth in the US manufacturing sector rose in August to its highest level since March 2011, according to an industry report released Tuesday. The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) said its index of national factory activity rose to 59.0 from 57.1 the month before. A reading above 50 indicates expansion in the…
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Alberta Forest Industry Trees Planted
Members of the Alberta Forest Products Association (AFPA) planted 65 million trees in forests throughout Alberta during the summer of 2014, the agency announced Wednesday. This works out to 16 trees for every person in Alberta and an average of more than two trees for every tree the industry harvested. In addition to long-term benefits,…
