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Lumber Prices Go Lower as Summer Downtime Approaches
As the end of June loomed and the usual summer holiday slowdowns came into view, prices of many construction framing dimension softwood lumber commodities across North America dropped further. Veteran players shook their heads, questioning if the ongoing soft demand meant this year will be a write off. Lumber traders in the east, west, and…
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Madison’s Lumber Prices Index June 28, 2024: US$384 mfbm
The Madison’s Lumber Prices Index for the week ending june 28, 2024 is: US$384 mfbm The Madison’s Lumber Prices Index for the week ending June 28, 2024 is: US$384 mfbmThis is down -2.5%, or -$10, from the previous week when it was US$394. For information regarding the construction of this Index (species mix, weighed averages)…
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Lack of Spring Demand Drops Lumber Prices Further
Since mid-2022 when interest rates, especially mortgage lending rates, starting going up home builders and lumber buyers became extremely cautious in their purchasing of manufactured wood products. In general players avoided stocking up on lumber inventory, mostly out of concern that prices might fall and they might get stuck with expensive material they would have…
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Madison’s Softwood Lumber Prices Index vs Futures
In mid-2022 the Chicago Mercantile Exchange launched updated Lumber Futures trading under a new ticker. Using the same species/product mix, Madison’s created an Index tracking that same market cash prices (print). The two-year graph below shows these concurrent data sets correlate very nicely: This demonstrates a much more reliable symmetry between prices of Futures and…
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Madison’s Lumber Prices Index June 21, 2024: US$394 mfbm
The Madison’s Lumber Prices Index for the week ending june 21, 2024 is: US$394 mfbm The Madison’s Lumber Prices Index for the week ending June 21, 2024 is: US$394 mfbmThis is down -4.6%, or -$19, from the previous week when it was US$413. For information regarding the construction of this Index (species mix, weighed averages)…
