February 2024 Market Update
Marcus Musson, Forest360 Director Opinion Piece February has kicked off with a hiss and a roar with log exporters pulling out the pencil sharpeners and publishing prices in the mid to high $130’s for A grade (except for Bluff and Lyttleton where yo...
January 2024 Market Update
Marcus Musson, Forest360 Director Opinion Piece The Christmas holidays have come and gone all too quickly for most and we are now returning to work a few kilos heavier, a touch of liver pain and with the same level of enthusiasm that a lightfingered ...
December 2023 Market Update
Marcus Musson, Forest360 Director Opinion Piece December’s export prices were like the early Christmas present from Aunty Doris that you expected to be socks but turned out to be a bike. While there were expectations of a slight lift in prices for ...
November 2023 Market Update
Marcus Musson, Forest360 Director Opinion Piece Rugby world cup aside, there is a bit of good news starting to stir some fizziness amongst us tree huggers and, while not at shaken beer can levels, it is enough to improve the fettle and shelve the nav...
October 2023 Market Update
Marcus Musson, Forest360 Director Opinion Piece Kiwibuild may be the best thing we can export to fix the housing crisis in China, lots of hui but not much doey. Since the early 2000’s, China has been flat-out doeying in the residential construction...
September 2023 Market Update
September 2023 Market Update Marcus Musson, Forest360 Director Opinion Piece It’s amazing how a spell of fine weather and some increased temperatures improves the general fettle, especially those that haven’t really seen a decent summer for...
August 2023 Market Update
Marcus Musson, Forest360 Director Opinion Piece Moving into electioneering season we are starting to see our political masters throw cash promises at potential voters like candy to kids, seemingly without any real analysis of return on investment or ...
July 2023 Market Update
Marcus Musson, Forest360 Director Opinion Piece Sentiment’s a funny thing. A month ago, we were staring down the barrel of a long and protracted export market ‘crash’ as prices plummeted to double digits courtesy of lack of demand from China an...
June 2023 Market Update
Marcus Musson, Forest360 Director Opinion Piece Global economics is a very interesting topic at present and for those industries heavily invested in export-based commodity trades, there’s more negative sentiment than an Auckland Transport smoko aft...
May 2023 Market Update
Marcus Musson, Forest360 Director Opinion Piece As we bid farewell to the NZ summer, we also wave goodbye to what we thought earlier in the year would be a reasonable period of solid log pricing from our export markets. May has seen export A-Grade pr...
