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Lumber Prices Flatten as Demand Remains Weak

Ongoing harsh winter weather and ample supply of lumber inventories in the field served to keep prices stable. It seemed that only the sawmill downtime and curtailment announcements of recent weeks — and months — kept lumber prices from falling lower. The balancing...

US Housing Market January and Softwood Lumber Prices February: 2023

US housing starts and new home sales data has been released for January 2023, with the latest numbers showing an ongoing momentum of activity. In 2022 the US began building 1.55 million homes, just a -3% drop from full-year 2021. Single-family starts in 2022 totalled...

Random Length Lumber Futures Trading *repost*

Chicago Mercantile Exchange launched updated futures trading in August 2022 under the ticker LBR CME Group launched a new lumber futures contract on August 8, 2022. The new derivative is said to feature a more precise hedging acumen and is designed to be more...

Reduced Manufacturing Volumes Push Lumber Prices Up

Despite somewhat soft demand, as many customers weren’t sure where prices were going so waited to buy, lumber prices popped up again in mid-February. This due mostly to ongoing capacity restrictions, especially in the important timber supply basket of British...

Lumber Prices and Market Update: Feb 2023

In the week ending February 10, 2023, the price of benchmark softwood lumber item Western Spruce-Pine-Fir 2×4 #2&Btr KD (RL) was US$476 mfbm, which is up by +$16 or +3%, from the previous week when it was US$360 mfbm, said weekly forest products industry price...

More Lumber Price Increases on Tightened Supply

The sawmill curtailments of recent months, especially those ongoing in the western part of North America, served to bring lumber prices up slightly. At this point, levels are still somewhat below cost-of-production in the important supply basket of British Columbia —...