CUT News and Press, Invesco MSCI Global Timber From 08/25/21

If history is any guide, Bloomberg believes shares of lumber producers should rebound as the homebuilding season picks up into year-end, after plunging lumber prices sent shares reeling in recent weeks. Lumber prices and shares of companies such West Fraser Timber (NYSE:WFG), Louisiana-Pacifi...

How Hot is Too Hot? For Timber REITs, scorching-hot lumber demand from the resurgent housing industry - combined with sawmill production bottlenecks - sent lumber prices soaring to extreme levels. Inflating construction materials prices - and the outright inability to source necessary...

After the pandemic’s initial spending splurge, the bill is due, and global growth is mean-reverting again. Treasury yields are confirming the disinflationary ride as we thought that they should. Similar trends are unfolding in the great hot north, with Canadian government b...

Copper, like lumber, had rocketed upward beginning last fall - representing, for many, the leading edge of the inflationary wave sure to follow. This would only have been the case if real inflation was ever the reason for price behavior all around. More and more it is apparent this wa...

My reading of the current environment is relatively clear; both the longer term and shorter-term leading growth indicators are pointing toward the heightened possibility of slowing cyclical growth. As a result, these downward trends suggest investors ought to be rotating out of the re...

Option traders may have an advantage in the next few weeks as uncertainty regarding the Fed’s next move on interest rates and QE, as well as the repercussions engendered by those actions for MELA. The major indexes are grinding sideways with a slight upward bias. The market...

The lumber sector and parts of the housing market seem to be clawing for a tradeable bottom. Something interesting is happening in the options market which may bode well for the stock market. Traders are loading up on call options at the 439 and 440 strike prices for S&P 500 SPDR ...

Taiyou Nomachi/DigitalVision via Getty Images Lumber futures rose by the most since April 2020 today in Chicago on concerns that wildfires in western Canada will reduce supply and cause more curtailments at sawmills. Lumber for September delivery (LB1:COM) settled +7.7% to $584 per 1,000 boar...

Since last November’s vaccine news, financial markets have been "hanging ten" on a swell of cyclical, value and small-cap stocks, and rising Treasury yields. Crosswinds started to grow in the second quarter, however, as economic and inflation data ran hot: rising yields stalled...

The best news last week was the continuing decline in global bond yields, including the 10-year Treasury rate falling below 1.4% last Tuesday. If and when the Fed decides to raise key short-term interest rates, I don’t think they will be able to raise rates by much, since the f...