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 ...

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 ...

Volatile lumber prices are causing uncertainty for construction businesses. In April 2025, the price of softwood lumber was 23% higher than the previous year. Lumber futures in Q1 2025 surged on fears ...

In a May 2 Barchart article on the wood futures market, I concluded: Lumber is in a bearish trend in May 2024, and the trend is always your best friend. The path of least resistance of physical lumber ...

A record wildfire season in 2023 is still revealing its effects on the market, one factor driving hedging in lumber futures Interest in the CME Group Lumber contract launched in 2022 soared to a ...

Lumber prices had been climbing in 2025, but the iShares Global Timber & Forestry ETF (WOOD) and Weyerhaeuser Company (WY) have been stuck in neutral. In a February 18, 2025, Seeking Alpha article on ...