Canadian softwood lumber producer prices fall 1.2% in August

SEATTLE (Scrap Monster): Canadian wood product prices fell 1.2% from July but remained up 8.6% from a year earlier, after rising 6.4% the prior month, Statistics Canada reported.

Canada's broader factory-gate prices rose 1.3% from July and were up 13.5% from a year earlier.

Wood product prices trailed Canada's total Industrial Product Price Index by 4.9 percentage points year over year, leaving August's monthly gain short of the wider rise in factory-gate prices.

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