Open interest for current month lumber futures is about 34% below last month, just another FYI. The drivers of higher lumber price (housing & renovation on the demand side, closed sawmills on the supply side) don't seem so hot.
- Devin Stockfish, CEO of Weyerhaeuser, just said "I don't think $1,000 lumber prices are the new normal".
- Wood products (NAICS industry) saw the least amount of growth in this months PMI (and saw a contraction in employment...)