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Category: Lumber News

  • Madison’s Weekly Key Prices Additions

    Due to changes in market dynamics between volumes of Western Spruce-Pine-Fir dimension lumber produced and sold in North America, and that of Southern Yellow Pine and Eastern Spruce-Pine-Fir, Madison’s Lumber Reporter has added these last two commodities to our weekly Key Prices table and graphs.   Madison’s Weekly Key Prices Additions

  • Madison’s Lumber Reporter KEY PRICES Week of 10/23/15

    A selection of Key Lumber and Panel Prices, to be published in this week’s issue of Madison’s Lumber Reporter: WSPF KD R/L 2×4 #2&Btr . . . $268 . . +$12 WSPF KD R/L 2×6 #2&Btr . . . $260. . . +$12 SYP KD R/L 2×4 #2&Btr East Side . . . $390 .…

  • Provinces Urge Canadian Government to Negotiate SLA

    Cabinet ministers in both Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are expressing concern that Canada and the United States haven’t started renegotiating the softwood lumber trade agreement, according to Canadian Press Wednesday. As well, British Columbia Premier Christy Clark has called for Canadian officials to get to the negotiating table, said Globe and Mail October 11.…

  • US Housing and Real Estate Situation

    By: Stephen Kim, Barclays’ US building products and home-building-equity analyst
 via Business Insider “At this point, it has become hard to overlook housing’s dismally slow pace of recovery. Sure, home prices are back to historic highs and housing-market activity continues to pick up, but many important aspects of the housing market are depressed. The housing…

  • Home Building and Selling 2015, USA

    “In hot real estate markets in the US, what’s happening is rental housing is being built to profit from rising rents and luxury housing is being built to meet the demand from wealthy overseas buyers,’ warns Adam Taggart in Market Oracle October 10. Elsewhere, in a chilling 88-page industry note, Barclays analyst Stephen Kim warns…