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Lumber Prices Sharply Reverse Recent Increases, Inventories Grow
Both producers and secondaries now have more plump inventories than most of this year, making assessments of their own price lists somewhat easier. Buyers, well aware of this, are pushing back at sawmills with significant counter-offers. Those suppliers in a position to negotiate are accepting customer demands. Prices are responding toward accordingly. This week and…
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Canada Investment in Housing Construction: 2Q and May 2018
Canadian investment in new housing construction increased +6.3% from May 2017 to $4.8 billion in May, according to Statistics Canada Thursday. The year-over-year increase was led by spending on multiple-unit construction (apartment buildings, row houses and semi-detached houses), while spending on single-family homes was down. Investment in non-residential building construction, meanwhile, totalled $14.3 billion in 2Q 2018, up +1.4% compared with…
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This week Madison’s Lumber Reporter printed down on benchmark softwood lumber prices by quite a bit . . .
Madison’s Lumber Reporter Published by Keta Kosman · 31 mins · This week Madison’s Lumber Reporter printed down on benchmark WSPF KD 2×4 #2&Btr #softwood #lumber prices by quite a bit. The most-often comment from sources was “prices tanking”. Now is the start of the annual seasonal curtailments in Quebec, and the forest fire ban…
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Conference Board of Canada: Economic Effects of Tariffs
Mentioned briefly in last week’s issue of your Madison’s Lumber Reporter, the Conference Board of Canada‘s latest Canadian Outlook Bulletin, released July 9, calls for the national economy to grow by +1.8 per cent in 2018–19 in the wake of a +3 per cent gain last year. “An easing pace of consumer spending, potential breakup…
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US Producer Price Index, Construction Materials: June 2018
Construction material prices in the US rose another +0.8% in June and are +9.6% higher than they were at the same time one year ago, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data release Wednesday. June represents the latest month associated with rapidly rising construction input prices. Nonresidential…
