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Madison’s Lumber Reporter KEY PRICES Week of 09/11/15
Madison’s Reporter @LumberNews #LUMBER PRICES 09/11: WSPF KD 2×4 #2&Btr US$245 mfbm; WSPF KD PET 2×4 Studs $225; Doug Fir green #2&Btr 2×4 $305; OSB ON 7/16″ C$272 msf. http://162.213.156.131/~madisonsreport/lumber-prices/
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Russia Lumber Export Rise 7.4 Per Cent: 1H 2015
For the first six months of 2015 total volume of lumber exports from Russia increased by 7.4 per cent, to 6.96 million tons year-over-year, as Federal Customs Service of Russia said in the press release received by Lesprom Network August 7. The volume of Russian exports of roundwood however, for the reporting period, amounted to…
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Housing Starts, Canada: July 2015
The latest report from the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corp, released Tuesday, showed the seasonally adjusted annualized rate of housing starts fell to 193,032 in July from a downwardly revised 202,338 units in June. With the six-month trend at 185,586 starts, analysts said homebuilding has settled into a pace that meets demographic demand, seemingly unaffected…
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North America Timber Update and Forecast
The latest data and analyses for North America timber usage is contradictory enough without a constantly changing landscape subject to politics and evolving title rights. Please see Page 7 for what happened in Québec this week with First Nations resource rights. Conference Board of Canada Otherwise, the Conference Board of Canada this week released a…
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North America Log and Lumber Markets
A spurt of talk in the past few days about lumber market recovery / not yet recovery prompted Madison’s to do a Round Up Update for North American log and lumber data: Said the Vancouver Sun Tuesday, “The key commodity price for 1,000 board feet of western spruce, pine or fir 2X4s, as reported by…
