Wood Markets Status & Trends (WMST)

Price and Market Analysis to Accompany PricePulse

FEA’s Wood Markets Status & Trends (WMST) service provides a weekly, concise overview of key factors influencing North American wood products markets. This includes insights into the housing market and macroeconomic conditions, trade, regional sawmill margins, and near-term price trends.

Each weekly report—delivered on Thursdays—includes a synopsis of current conditions and market indicators for both the US and Canada.


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What’s in Each Issue

Housing & Macro Housing market, homebuilding, and end-use trends set against the broader macroeconomic backdrop.
Lumber & Panel Markets One-page summary of the latest developments across lumber and panel markets, including price trends.
Industry Headlines Capacity, curtailments, policy, natural disasters, timber, and international developments.
Rotating Updates Coverage that cycles through the market week to week so the picture stays current accross the supply chain:

  • Trade volumes and conditions
  • Panel outlook
  • Freight trends
  • Log markets
  • North American inventory / end-use ratio, capacity, and sales
  • EWP outlook
Lumber Dashboard A quantitative read on lumber activity, refreshed every week:

  • Weekly shipments
  • Futures
  • Sawmill margins
“Topic of the Month”
(1x Month)		 A once-a-month deep dive by Henry Spelter (Partner, Wood Products) into a single issue shaping the industry.

Market Conditions by Lumber, Specialty, and Panel Product

Lumber Prices
Spruce and studs
White fir/hem-fir
Green Douglas-fir
Southern pine
Specialty Prices
Pressure treated
Shop, moulding, and millwork
Boards
Western red cedar
Panel Prices
OSB
Southern plywood
Western plywood
Nonstructural panels

Pair Objective Pricing With Expert Market Analysis

WMST combines PricePulse’s transaction-based pricing with FEA’s broader analysis of the economic, policy, industry, and market developments shaping wood products demand and prices. Subscribe to WMST on its own, or bundle it with PricePulse for a more complete view of the market.

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