by Web Editor | Jul 9, 2014 | News
North American lumber supplies and prices could be affected by a ruling from the Supreme Court of Canada granting the Tsilhqot’in First Nation title claim on land in central British Columbia. The decision, handed down June 26, gives the group exclusive right to...
by Web Editor | Feb 21, 2014 | News
As brutal weather patterns continued across the most populated parts of North America, lumber and panel traders reported mostly flat prices on solid wood commodities, writes Keta Kosman, publisher of Madison’s Lumber Reporter. Most commonly-traded dimensions...
by Web Editor | Jul 15, 2013 | News
Investors should always be on the lookout for a long-term financial trend, take a position early, and then ride it for all it’s worth. Such an opportunity could now be emerging in lumber, a long depressed commodity that could be on the cusp of better things. RBC...
by Web Editor | Jan 16, 2013 | News
A new five-year outlook shows that supply and demand conditions in wood products for the long-awaited ‘super-cycle’ are now taking hold, with the full impact still some 3+ years away. With the return of a demand-driven wood products market in 2012 – due to rapidly...
by Web Editor | Sep 10, 2012 | News
The North American lumber market has, to a large extent, been a buyers market since the beginning of the financial crisis in 2008, but is now shifting to a sellers market with the increase in demand for lumber by the huge U.S. market. In May, lumber consumption in the...