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...The retail control group, which excludes building materials, motor vehicle parts and petrol station sales, rose 1 per cent, surpassing economists’ expectations for a 0.5 per cent increase....
...This is the building materials wholesaler it bought last year. Home Depot and Lowe’s shares — at 24 and 19 times forward earnings — are trading in line with a year ago....
...All around a small city near China's border with Vietnam, posters and billboards carry the slogan “Building Smart City”....
...Softwoods such as spruce, pine and fir are used to make lumber for homebuilding materials such as boards and plywood....
...After stints selling construction materials and running a lumber mill, he decided the future was in high-quality fruits and vegetables....
...The world’s largest plumbers’ merchant rallied 4 per cent to 353¼p, a one-month high, on renewed speculation that it could dispose of Stock, its lossmaking US building materials division....
...Wolseley hit its lowest level since September 2001 on Friday as another leading analyst said the building materials group required a cash call....
...“These people that are holding on to their Cisco, Oracle and Dell may have it wrong, but what is this going to do for cement, lumber and other building materials?”...
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