The majority of statistics about the housing market released in September continued to support the view, nearly universal now, that the housing market has climbed out of the ditch and is on the road to a sustainable recovery. Home prices ...
In May 2008, I started working at Forest2Market. My first assignment was to scour the news and talk to our contacts about changes in mill capacity, and therefore demand for timber, in the South. As part of our mission to ...
As human beings, we tend to shape our view of the world around the information we have. Figure 1 is a case in point. This graph shows the volume weighted average price for OCC in the Southeast region of the US ...
The figure below summarizes pricing data gathered for Forest2Market's weekly lumber market report, Mill2Market. For this market report, Forest2Market aggregates sales order data submitted directly by report subscribers. This figure charts weekly sales order prices from January 2010 through year ...
The Southern Pine Inspection Board (SPIB) has submitted new design values for all sizes and grades of visually graded southern pine dimension lumber to the American Lumber Standards Committee (ALSC) for review. The ALSC Board of Review (BOR) will meet on October ...
In August, ISM's PMI ticked down to 49.6 percent, from 49.8 in July (50 percent is the breakpoint between contraction and expansion). Bradley Holcomb, chair of ISM's Manufacturing Business Survey Committee, concluded with, "Comments from the [respondent] panel generally reflect a slowdown ...
