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The pellet production segment saw improvements with better margins.
The pellet production segment saw improvements with better margins.
The property market, once a major growth engine, continues to flounder, impacting not only domestic consumption but also the demand for construction materials.
Timber trade volumes remained above normal, despite a drop of more than a fifth from May.
The builders are concerned about the current high interest rate environment. An improving interest rate environment will help buyers as well as builders and developers who are contending with tight lending conditions and high interest rates.
ABC's Construction Confidence Index showed slight declines in sales and staffing levels for June, while profit margins saw improvement.
U.S. construction job openings increased by 2,000 last month but are down by 38,000 from the same time last year.
Despite the construction season and production capacity cuts, lumber prices continue to slide down
Exporters anticipate price increases for logs through July.
Housing starts fall 19.3% y-o-y in May, down 5.5% from April.
The log shortage caused real prices for pine and birch pulpwood in May reached their highest levels ever recorded in the monthly statistics, which began in 1995.
The federation warns that implementing the law will pose significant challenges.
Home prices are falling at an accelerating rate, and while fixed-asset investment and industrial production are growing, their momentum has slowed.
Both regeneration harvest and thinning costs reached their highest levels since 1996, when these statistics were first recorded.
In May 2024, actual monthly activity was 5.9% below the levels of May 2023.
Many factors suggest that the long-fiber market will continue to be structurally undersupplied.
If lumber prices do not increase, Swedish sawmills will show catastrophic results in the autumn when the current wood raw material prices reflect in their financials.
While the economy is stable and recovering, pressures on employment and demand persist, necessitating stronger policies to boost domestic demand and job growth.
Inflation pressures eased to one of the lowest levels in over three years, but remained high by pre-pandemic standards.
Producer prices rose in all categories in the first three months of 2024, except for wooden office furniture, which saw a 1.2% price decrease.
Rate influenced by weaker-than-expected jobs report.