Fires, weather, housing starts and interest rates dominated the discussion this period. An Ontario manufacturer indicated that “we’re quiet right now. It feels like the dog days of summer. You know, when housing starts went from 1.61 million in the U.S. to 1.4 and change, that really seemed to cut the market off at the […]

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