Southeastern Lumber Manufacturers Association

One of the advantages of The Heritage Foundation’s economic analysis of the Waxman-Markey climate change bill is we can determine out who loses most of all the losers. We’ve detailed the negative impacts cap and trade would have on farmers, manufacturers and construction workers. ...

Paul Jannke, an economist who specializes in the wood products industry, believes most forecasts for housing starts are too low. He says you need to look at new-home inventories and an overlooked factor in new-home sales to understand why.

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Construction of new U.S. homes has jumped in May by the largest amount in three months, providing an encouraging sign that the nation's deep housing recession was beginning to bottom out.

Home Depot Inc said earnings could be flat this year, rather than falling as it previously forecast, saying the worst of the U.S. housing correction had passed.

CHICAGO, June 4 (Reuters) - Chicago Mercantile Exchange lumber futures rallied nearly 5 percent on Thursday and finished up the $10 per thousand board feed daily limit amid further mill curtailments, some fund buying and talk of a firming cash market, traders said.

In the latest sign of a bottoming real estate market, the National Association of Realtors said June 2 that its seasonally-adjusted index of sales contracts signed jumped for the third straight month, surging 6.7% in April compared to March and...

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