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President Trump's new tariffs, particularly those impacting China, are significantly affecting the price and availability of construction materials in the United States, creating volatility and ...
Energy input prices fell 3.9% between February and March and were 14.9% lower than one year ago. Building material prices ...
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its latest Producer Price Index data today, which includes numbers from March, ...
The goods component makes up the larger portion of the total index at 60%. Month-over-month, the price of input goods to new residential construction was up 0.5%. Growing by 0.8% month-over-month and ...
Prices for the indexes’ materials component are published in the preceding month on the Construction Economics pages. Cement prices are in the first issue of the month, lumber prices in the ...
Iron and steel, still mill products and copper wire and cable prices rose more than 5 percent for the month, according to ABC ...
Notably, respondents who completed the survey after the April 2 tariffs announcement were significantly less upbeat.
US homebuilder confidence barely rose this month on a pickup in current sales, though demand expectations stumbled to a more ...
Contractors are receiving price hike notices on several key inputs, complicating efforts to plan and budget new projects.
RETAIL price growth of construction materials in the National Capital Region (NCR) rose to a three-month high in March, the ...
WASHINGTON, DC — Construction input prices increased 0.5% in March, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors ...