Market Trend | November 20, 2024 Timber Exchange's Global Lumber Barometer #2: Mixed Expectations as Market Awaits Price Shifts Timber Exchange recently conducted a survey to understand market expectations for global lumber prices over the coming three months. The results reveal a generally stable outlook, with a major number of respondents predicting minimal price fluctuations within a -5% to +5% range. Read more Related Tags global timber market market data hub timber price index global timber industry global lumber industry
Market Trend | October 4, 2024 Timber Exchange's Global Lumber Barometer: Stability Prevails Amid Uncertainty A recent survey of lumber market participants offers insights into potential market movements, revealing that stability prevails over significant price changes among a minority of market participants. Read more Related Tags sawn timber prices market data hub global lumber market timber exchange
Market Trend | August 5, 2024 Sawn Timber Market Outlook for the Next 1-3 Months As the construction and woodworking industries closely monitor market trends, the future of sawn timber prices has become a topic of significant interest. As a way of gathering sentiment and insights, our LinkedIn community recently participated in a poll asking: "How do you expect sawn timber prices to perform in the next 1-3 months? Read more Related Tags global timber market market data hub timber price index sawn timber prices
Market Trend | March 11, 2024 Uncovering the Dynamics of China's Wood Product Market The China wood products market is in a state of flux, presenting both challenges and opportunities for stakeholders across the globe. As the world's largest importer of wood products, China's demand has been a driving force in the timber industry for almost 15 years. Read more Related Tags global lumber market timber industry timber exchange chinese wood market
Market Trend | October 28, 2022 China Property & Mortgage Crisis - An Investigative Piece on the Implications of the Boycott The property sector of China makes up around a third of its total economic output ($18 trillion GDP). It includes brokering & rental services along with houses, industries that produce white goods for the apartments, and construction materials. Yet, it is critical to note that the Chinese economy has been declining for the past few years. Read more Related Tags construction lumber
Market Trend | March 23, 2022 The Impact of the Russia-Ukraine War on Global Timber Trade The war between Russia and Ukraine is likely to impact global trade, especially the timber market, to a large extent in the coming months. The increased number of sanctions against Russian trading and the challenging financial transactions will possibly re-direct and interrupt forest products’ shipments globally. Trade with Russia, as a result, will likely decline, jeopardizing the long-established international trade flows of forest products to and from the region. Read more Related Tags timber production lumber exports global timber trade
Market Trend | February 7, 2022 Implications of Russia’s Proposed Log Export Ban on Global Markets in 2022 In 2020 Russia exported around 15 million cubic meters of logs which accounted for 12% of the Roundwood that is globally traded. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, however, has proposed a new log export ban that will stop the exportation of hardwood logs of high-value and softwood logs from 1st January 2022. Read more Related Tags softwood lumber log exports log prices
Market Trend | October 13, 2021 What Does the Lumber Price Forecast Have in Store for Q4-2021? Lumber prices, over the past few months and 2020, have been in turmoil. While it might show an all-time high at one point, the next quarter can see the European and US lumber price dropping down like anything. Mid-July 2021 saw the price of the finished SYP (Southern Yellow Pine) lumber tumbling over 65% from the record high ($1,600 per 1,000 board feet) that it had reached simply 9 weeks ago (in May). Read more Related Tags global lumber market
Market Trend | September 1, 2021 Retail Homebuyers Getting Outbid by Big Companies About one in five homes sold in 2020 were purchased by investors in the USA, a trend that is being observed even outside the USA (such as Australia), where retail buyers are continuously finding it hard to compete with investors who don't need home inspections, appraisal contingencies, or a mortgage. Such corporations might be institutional investment organisations, public trading firms, pension funds, etc. Read more Related Tags us lumber prices international timber prices
Market Trend | August 18, 2021 Elevating Trend in Swedish Wood Market Today’s wood marketplace is investing in digital technology across organizations. However, most of the timber companies are focusing on digital efforts to improve their quality management and IT operations, as well as to enhance the execution of supply chain and production. Recently, Swedish wood companies are using a range of technologies for optimizing their supply chain, where the cloud is the most widely adopted one. Read more Related Tags sweden forestry industry swedish sawmills