Falling mortgage rates and a large deficit in the home supply, should see lumber prices remain in the higher end of their new ...

I write about commodities through a four-decade lens of experience. Prices of bellwether commodities like oil, gas, lumber and copper are down significantly from a year ago. Commodity markets are ...

From corn to copper, a number of commodities have been on fire since last year, but none more than lumber. Lumber spot prices are up roughly 78% since the start of 2021 and more than 350% in the ...

Lumber prices have come full circle in the years ... with most of the benchmark commodity lumber items trading around 20% ...

Lumber prices are up 14% so far in 2023 after suffering a brutal sell-off last year. Further gains could be in store for lumber as supply shortages emerge ahead of the homebuilding season.

Lumber prices have plunged this year as the peak home-building season falls flat amid subdued demand. The essential homebuilding commodity has seen futures pricing plunge 24% from its mid-March ...

But now the price of lumber, a key construction material, has tripled off mid-lockdown lows. Between April 1 and Aug. 27, commodity traders bid up lumber to $850 per 1,000 board feet from $260 ...

The lumber sector is finally stirring again, after years of low demand for new residential homes both across the U.S. and abroad (especially in China), thorny supply chain issues, inflation-driven ...

Use the Commodity Data Portal to visualize and chart the prices of 68 commodities from four commodity asset classes: energy, agriculture, fertilizers, and metals. Share, export, and download data ...

However, a natural assumption for developing countries is that fluctuations in real commodity prices have the potential to explain a large share of changes in real exchange rates, given that so many ...

If longshore workers at East and Gulf coast ports go on strike Tuesday, as now appears likely, it could choke off the ...

When commodity prices move in tandem, it is usually because real-world events jolt markets. China is the world’s biggest consumer of raw materials, so its economic leaps and stumbles matter.