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Canada Railway Carloadings: April 2017
The volume of rail freight carried in Canada totalled 31.4 million tonnes in April, up 11.3 per cent from the same month last year, according to Statistics Canada Wednesday. Freight originating in Canada increased 10.6 per cent in April from the same month a year earlier, to 28.3 million tonnes. Non-intermodal freight increased 8.5 per…
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US House Prices, Pending Home Sales: April & May 17
The S&P/Case-Shiller and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Tuesday released their respective home price indices for April. National home prices increased at a more moderate annual growth rate, while local home price gains varied. US House Prices, Pending Home Sales: April & May 17 The Case-Shiller US National Home Price Index, reported by S&P…
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Canada Residential Construction: April 2017
New housing construction investment totalled $4.6 billion in April, up 8.4 per cent compared with April 2016, said Statistics Canada also Thursday. Eight provinces posted gains, led by Ontario. Nationally, investment increased for every dwelling type. The gain was mostly due to spending on single-family dwellings, up $251.8 million to $2.4 billion. Six provinces posted…
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US New and Existing Home Sales, Inventory: May 2017
Contracts for new home sales expanded by 2.9 per cent in May to a 610,000 seasonally adjusted annual rate, according to estimates from the joint data release of HUD and the US Census Bureau Friday. The report also noted a strong upward revision for the April rate of sales, increasing from a 569,000 annual pace…
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US Softwood Lumber Imports: 1Q 2017
Offshore imports of softwood lumber to the US continued to climb in early 2017 after increasing 43 per cent in 2016, according to the Campbell Group’s monthly Timber Trends Thurday. As Canadian producers have shifted their focus to markets outside of the US, attention has turned to the supply side of the US softwood lumber…
