Category: Weekly Softwood Lumber Blog

As recent supply-demand imbalance worked out, and for the usual time of year when buying slows, prices of most softwood lumber and panel commodities dropped significantly in the third week of May. Interestingly, this correlates almost exactly to where prices were at the end of June last year … both in trendline at actual price…

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It was this same week last year when lumber prices reached an unimaginable all-time high, and stayed that way for a few short weeks before falling consistently through summer to almost meet the lows of 2019. As mentioned last week, this year prices are topping-out lower, and are bottoming-out higher. As industry and customers are…

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While many North American construction framing dimension softwood lumber and panel prices stayed flat, others did rise a little bit. Customers satisfied with recent price drops agreed with current levels, and came back to buy at good volumes. Inventories in the field seemed to improve, possibly suggesting that near-term demand will ease as end-users are…