Nearby physical lumber futures settled 2025 at $576 per 1,000 board feet, posting a 4.63% gain for the year that ended on December 31, 2025. I asked whether lumber futures would wait until spring to ...

I last wrote about the lumber market and its price action on Barchart on August 21, 2025, where I concluded with the following: The offseason for lumber demand is on the horizon. The potential for ...

Lumber futures fell again Wednesday, dropping to their lowest prices since last autumn, before higher duties on Canadian imports and the threat of tariffs sent them soaring. Futures for September ...

Lumber futures are down moderately, from a three-month high of $614 per thousand board feet to $590, mostly due to a soft housing market (pending home sales slid by 9.3% in December 2025) and ...

Lumber futures (LB1:COM) have come under strain after the initial tariff-driven upswing has fizzled out and the cracks in the housing market are beginning to show. LB1:COM has retreated from an early ...

President Trump’s 10% tariff on lumber imports takes effect today, and futures prices are continuing their recent climb from the September’s lows, which prompted sawmill curtailments across North ...

When the Trump administration more than doubled import fees on Canadian softwood lumber earlier this year, the goal was to support domestic prices and boost U.S. production. Instead, prices have ...

If you can wait to buy lumber, it may pay handsomely to do so. More sawmills, more output, and, eventually, more people to move the output through building’s complex channels, from the source to the ...

Lumber has been having quite the moment as of late. The ordinarily quiet commodity market has been the center of attention since a booming housing market and supply strain disruptions lead to an ...