Among materials used in residential construction, lumber and wood products ranks 3rd in terms of importance for the Inputs to New Residential Construction Index.

US wholesale inflation decelerated last month, suggesting that price pressures are easing for now. But the progress may not last as President Donald Trump intensifies his trade wars.

Wall Street closed sharply lower on Thursday, pulled down by tech and discretionary stocks. The S&P 500 confirmed it had gone into correction mode, and Trump’s tariff rhetoric continued to weigh on ...

President Donald Trump has since announced sweeping tariffs on the country’s biggest trading partners, which are set to raise prices of imported goods in ...

Wholesale prices were roughly flat last month, but an upward revision to the January number meant that producer inflation was steeper than previously estimated at the start of 2025. The producer-price ...

The bond market has a bone to pick with the latest inflation data. Traders in bonds "so far shrugged off this morning’s cool PPI" and remain "more focused on the less-encouraging implications for the ...

The decline adds to signs that price pressures are abating, a development that raises the prospect that the Federal Reserve will ease monetary policy sooner.

The FTSE 100 index closed up just 1.59 points at 8,542.56. The FTSE 250 dropped 197.94 points, 1.0%, at 19,688.57, and the AIM All-Share fell 1.46 points, 0.2%, at 679.46. The Cboe UK 100 rose 0.1% at ...

The cost of services fell 0.2% amid a 1.4% decline in margins for machinery and vehicle wholesaling, after rising 0.6% in ...

U.S. producer prices were unchanged in February for the first time in seven months, while fewer Americans filed claims for ...

Excluding volatile food and energy prices, so-called core wholesale prices fell 0.1% last month from January, first drop ...

U.S. producer prices were unexpectedly unchanged in February, but the cooling trend is unlikely to be sustained as tariffs on ...