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Construction Framing Dimension Softwood Lumber Price Pop Up This Week
Updated for subscribers Friday morning 8:30am Eastern Time, Madison’s weekly North American softwood lumber prices move up this week as good housing construction weather continues in various densely-populated parts of the US and Canada. Another week of strong softwood lumber demand capped off an encouraging first month of 2020. https://madisonsreport.com Inventories of dimension lumber and…
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US House Prices vs Construction Framing Softwood Lumber Prices: 4Q 2019 and Jan 2020
Home-price growth in the US accelerated in November 2019, in the latest sign the home-sales market is picking up steam after a slow start to 2019. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller National Home Price Index rose +3.5% in the 12 months to November, up from a +3.2% annual pace the prior month.National home price gains coincide…
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Madison’s Western S-P-F Lumber Prices Jan 31: sneak preview
The full Madison’s Lumber Reporter North America softwood lumber price list will be updated as usual first thing Friday morning Eastern time, however here is a SNEAK PEAK at tomorrow’s benchmark WSPF prices: After staying flat for the past four weeks,The wholesaler price of benchmark softwood lumber item Western Spruce-Pine-Fir KD 2×4 #2&Btr for Jan…
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British Columbia Coast Logging Work Stoppage: Jan 2020
This month was held the annual British Columbia Truck Loggers Association AGM in Vancouver, BC, where the Premier of BC, John Horgan, announced $5 million in funding to assist contractors at risk of losing equipment to the banks. The move is in response to this record-breaking seven month strike, and is intended to pay existing…
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North America Commercial Heating Wood Pellet Market 2019 Wrap-Up
prices for commercial/residential heating wood pellets in the US are quite a bit higher than in Canada (when converting USD to CAD) UNITED STATES Commercial/Residential Heating Wood Pellet Prices as well, the relationship between US retail and wholesale heating wood pellet prices is far more correlated than in Canada there is a peak in US…
