With housing on the rebound in the United States, the exchange traded fund for lumber, Guggenheim Lumber (NYSE: CUT) is also rising. Jumping too is the exchange traded fund for oil, United States Oil (NYSE: USO). As the chart below reveals, ...
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Lumber prices are rising in the U. S. Because of greater demand in Asia, which is a sign of recovery in the international real estate market. The exchange-traded fund for lumber, Claymore Beacon Global Timber Index (CUT, quote), has climbed ...
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For some reason, investors seem to be wary of stocks. It may be because bonds have beaten the stuffing out of stocks for the past 20 years. It may be the stream of scandals plaguing Wall Street. Or it may be that they are Facebook ...
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Since this year, timber prices, let furniture manufacturer to unbearable. The fierce market competition let manufacturers to small talk rises in price, and more rising costs, and make the enterprise in declining profits, even the condition ...
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It's been a good summer for sawmills in northeastern Ontario — and that has some thinking optimistically about the forest industry for the first time in years. More Americans are building houses this summer, bumping up lumber prices. ...
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Weyerhaeuser Co., one of the industry’s largest supplier of wood products, reported net sales from continuing operations of $1.8 billion for its second fiscal quarter, a 12.5% increase over net sales from continuing operations of $1.6 ...
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Our outlook for summer lumber prices has grown a bit brighter as it has become less likely the industry will severely out-produce demand. Historically, sustained strength in poplar demand would have long since triggered enough production to ...
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Global trade in lumber has risen 25% in the past two years. After a sharp decline in 2008 and 2009, traded volumes rose to 90 million m³ in 2011, although this is still well below pre-financial crisis levels. According to the Wood ...
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Led by British Columbia, Canada emerged as the largest exporter of lumber in the world to China in 2011, surpassing Russia as the Middle Kingdom's No. 1 source for lumber. "We are king of the hill, " Gerry Van Leeuwen, of the Vancouver ...
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Usually the articles I write feature change of some sort. Most often it’s a statistical series that has moved up or down. Sideways is the exception. A series that is well-known for its volatility is construction costs. That’s ...
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JAVA --High fuel costs are squeezing local loggers and a Java sawmill already hurt by a slump in new home construction. Lumber demand, which is the highest it’s been in the past five years, is not the problem for the Gregory Lumber ...
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, and Idaho contractors and suppliers say they are seeing the same trend in certain areas. “Some (products) related to crude oil prices, like roofing and resin products like PVC, are up, ” said Peter Alexander, CEO of BMC, a ...
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Lumber, panelboard, pulp and paper manufactured by member companies of the Alberta Forest Products Association was worth about $2.2 billion in 2011, a drop of $152 million - or 6.6 per cent - from 2010. In the fourth quarter of 2011, ...
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Sawlog prices in the 4Q/11 were down both in U. S. Dollar terms and in local currencies in most of the 20 regions we cover, as compared to the previous quarter. The biggest declines occurred in Western Canada, Finland, Sweden, Russia and ...
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By the end of February 2012, prices on the southern and western German softwood log markets stabilised at the level they had reached at the beginning of the year; No further significant fluctuations have occurred in prices since then. In ...
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