With the exception of Norway, European pine sawlog prices fell for all major producer countries in the March quarter, compared with the prior year. The largest recorded fall was the 8.3% expe…

For the second time in three months, Australia’s exports of softwood logs hit 389,000 m3 in February, falling just 500 m3 below the record set in December 2016. On a year-end basis, the records…

Australia’s sawn softwood exports declined by 4.3% in the year-ended February 2017, falling to 272,591 m3. Always small, falling exports are in part a result of the very strong domestic dema…

Australia’s economic growth will reach 3.1% in 2017, according to the latest World Economic Outlook produced by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This compares with global growth tha…

Returning to a familiar refrain from the last decade, Chinese economic growth is clearly the pump of the global economy. Growing at an annualized 6.9% in the March Quarter of 2017, the Chinese…

Australia’s headline inflation rate, the Consumer Price Index (CPI), rose to 2.1% for the year-ended March 2017, returning to the Reserve Bank of Australia’s target range. For the march Qua…

On an annualised basis, for the year-ended February 2017, sales of domestically produced sawn softwood declined to 3,131,207 m3, down just 0.1% on the prior month’s year-end total.  This is…

Australia’s are holding on to their houses for much longer than has been the case through most of the last thirty years. The implications of this, in an era when interest rates are low and house p…