The value of wood products imports continued to decline in January, with annualised import values falling to $1.896 billion, down 15.7% on the year-ended January 2019, recording a thirteen…

Sawn softwood sales were strong in early 2020, with sales in February 2020 totalling 254,375 m3, up 9.7% on a year earlier. January’s sales were up 4.1% on the prior January. The position was no…

February 2020 looks like being something of a ‘green shoots’ month when compared to the coming period. Some of the key data was pointing up after the softness of the second half of 2019. But how l…

When Dr Philip Lowe, the RBA Governor, announced a $105 billion liquidity package for the banks on 19 March, 2020 he commented that “…to get to the other side we need a bridge…. building that bri…

In more normal times, in assessing economic news we would be commenting on the recent GDP results for the December 2019 quarter and associated measures important to the forest and wood produc…

Back a lifetime ago, at the start of March, Australia’s economic growth for the December quarter was reported at 0.5%, a little higher than most economists predicted, even if still too low to r…

In what continues to be a moving feast, the Australian dollar collapsed in February and March, with the month-end exchange rates at two-decade lows. Declines in many global currencies are ex…