Many home builders, contractors and retailers wagered that higher U.S. tariffs on imports would boost the cost of lumber, ...

I concluded a February 2025 Barchart article on the lumber market with: The odds favor higher lumber prices over the coming months as the fundamental supply-demand balance suggests that lumber demand ...

Lumber futures were up 4.6% week-over-week, or 11% year-over-year. That was also up 5.6% month-over-month. Most of the price growth in 2024 was in the 2x10 market.

The chart highlights the bullish trend that developed from the October 25 $483 low that took lumber prices to the latest $545 high on November 17. Short-term technical resistance for the January ...

Former President Donald Trump took a similar path, more than doubling Canadian lumber duties in 2017. But he wisely cut the tariff at the end of 2020 in response to soaring prices. Mr.

A combination of factors has driven lumber prices to their highest levels since the Covid pandemic. In recent weeks, spot market prices for framing lumber were up 14.9% yearly. Prices have been rising ...

Weyerhaeuser offers a compelling opportunity as a liquid, dividend-paying REIT with direct exposure to potential upside in ...

Long-Term Chart of the WOOD ETF Product (Barchart) The chart shows WOOD reached a record high in March 2021 at $98.98 per share when lumber futures peaked at $1,711.20.

The highest price that lumber fetched by the same metric in the summer of 2018 was $582. Driving the free fall has been an inversion of the supply-and-demand equation.

Lumber prices have fallen to their lowest level in more than two years, bringing two-by-fours back to what they cost before the pandemic building boom and pointing to a sharp slowdown in ...

With lumber prices through the roof, affordable housing feels out of reach—but this mobile home flips the script. Under $100K ...

Lumber prices have shot up again in a rise reminiscent of a year ago, when high-climbing wood prices warned of the hinky supply lines and broad inflation to come. Futures for January delivery ...