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US Construction Employment, Job Openings: March 2018
The count of unfilled jobs in the US construction sector declined in February, but remains higher than a year ago. According to the latest BLS Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) and NAHB analysis, the number of open construction sector jobs came in at 196,000 in February. The post-recession high count of open, unfilled…
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US Construction Materials Prices: March 2018
Building materials prices in the US continued to climb in March, according to the latest Producer Price Index release by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics Tuesday. OSB-led price increases, up +9.3% since February, while the indexes for ready-mix concrete (+3.3%), softwood lumber (+2.2%), structural steel (+2.0%), and gypsum products (+1.1%) also moved higher. US Construction Materials…
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Full Year 2017 North America Forest Industry Data Out Now
Just last week the US Census, Statistics Canada, and Industry Canada have updated data for Canadian and US lumber and log sales and export, and Canadian softwood lumber production and sales. Most of the insight to emerge from this latest data is as expected, but one thing which seems to have slipped past most observers…
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US Residential Construction Spending: Feb 2018
NAHB analysis of Census Construction Spending data, released Monday, shows that total private residential construction spending in the US stood at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of US$533 billion in February, a gain of 0.1% from the upwardly revised estimate of January. Over the past 12 months, total private residential construction spending was up 5.5%.…
