Wood Markets Status and Trends (WMST)
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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, lumber trade, regional mill costs, and near-term price trends.
Each weekly report—delivered on Thursdays—includes a synopsis of current conditions and market indicators. Topics include the following:
- Housing market, homebuilding, and end-use trends
- Lumber and panel market developments
- Industry headlines covering capacity, curtailments, policy, natural disasters, timber, and international
- Rotating updates:
- Trade volumes and conditions
- Panel outlook
- Freight trends
- Logs and residuals
- North American inventory/end-use ratio, capacity, and sales
- The WMST Lumber Dashboard:
- Weekly Shipments
- Futures
- Mill Margins
- Market conditions by product:
- Lumber Prices: Spruce and studs, hemlock/white fir, green Douglas-fir, and Southern pine
- Specialty Prices: Pressure treated; shop, moulding, and millwork; boards; and Western red cedar
- Panel Prices: OSB, Southern plywood, Western plywood, and nonstructural panels
On a monthly basis, WMST features a “Topic of The Month” article penned by FEA’s Henry Spelter, a deep dive into a timely topic affecting the industry.
- Looking for Lumber Markets Status and Trends (LMST)?
The LMST has expanded! We’ve updated the report to our all-new WMST service. The new version includes all the same great data and information you’ve come to rely on from the LMST, plus the expanded data and commentary outlined above.