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Canada Export and Trade: First-Half 2014
A jump in exports helped the Canadian economy bounce back from a weather-restrained 1Q, with annualized growth of 3.1 per cent in 2Q after a downwardly revised 0.9 per cent in the first. The Statistics Canada data on Friday showed gross domestic product growing at its fastest pace since 3Q 2011, beating the Bank of…
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Canada Building Permits
Canadian municipalities issued building permits worth $6.9 billion in May, up 13.8 per cent from April, said Statistics Canada Monday. This followed a 2.2 per cent rise in the previous month. The increase in May resulted primarily from higher construction intentions for commercial buildings in Ontario and Manitoba, as well as multi-family dwellings in British…
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US Real Estate
A report April 11 from Zelman & Associates said it the analyst firm now expected a 5 per cent drop in sales of previously owned homes in America for 2014, to a seasonally adjusted annual level of 4.8 million units. At the start of this year, the firm had forecast nearly a 6 per cent…
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Canada-Korea Trade Deal
Canada Lumber Exports The Canada-Korea Free Trade Agreement concluded in Seoul on Tuesday by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and South Korean President Park Geun-hye, has both countries pledging to eliminate duties on 98 per cent of all goods. More than nine years and 14 bargaining rounds in the making, the deal offers what Harper called…
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Lumber News Archives: Mar 2009
Log Prices Globally ; Timber Preview ; Quebec Forest Industry Stimulus; US Economic Indicators; Buchanan Forest Products; New Technology in Wood Processing ; New Brunswick Provides More Aid to Forest Workers ; Lumber Production ; AbitibiBowater Midnight Deadline; January Housing Starts in Japan ; US Housing Starts Forestry Roundtable ; Madison’s Timber Preview; Canadian Housing…
