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...It is needed to produce food and lumber, provide natural habitats, capture CO₂ and even grow biofuels. Farms and villages are also intimately woven with the character of the nation....
...Wages rose 4.2 per cent in the 12 months to September, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics....
...Home Depot’s top line rose by a third to $37.5bn. A surge in lumber prices has helped. Dearer commodities translate into higher prices for end consumers, boosting the top line....
...Prices for used vehicles rose 10 per cent on a month-by-month basis in April, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Home prices have rocketed higher as well, alongside swelling lumber prices....
...This gauge of factory activity rose to 54.7 in April, from 53.5 in March. A number above 50 indicates expansion compared with the previous month....
...Demand for lumber has surged during lockdown as housebound consumers turned to home renovation projects. “This is the most violent, steepest and overbought rally in lumber’s history,” said one broker....
...Between 1993 and 2017, state spending on health rose 130 per cent to €230bn a year. A big reason is demographics: social care of Germany’s ageing population claims ever greater sums....
...In the end, the coronavirus proved the bigger disruption to US imports from China, as imports from other countries rose this year....
...& Co raised similar concerns....
...Paint, piping, lumber, drills and fittings are among the many products stocked by Lowe’s — and its sales have boomed....
...Volcker rose to the challenge soon after his nomination to be Fed chairman by Jimmy Carter in 1979....
...A small rise in sales for condominiums and co-ops was not enough to offset a drop in single-family sales, the main category....
...Energy prices rose 10.6 per cent over the past 12 months, leading to the increase in the headline figure, Eurostat said....
...US retail sales rose in July by the most in seven months — 0.6 per cent over June compared to Wall Street expectations of 0.3 per cent....
...The former bookseller who rose to become president of the European Parliament came across as an engaging man of the people....
...Travel-related stocks were shaken on Tuesday after a series of co-ordinated terror attacks in Brussels sparked concerns about demand ahead of the key summer season....
...Analysts at JPMorgan, Needham & Co and Cantor Fitzgerald downgraded the stock following the results....
...US earnings later include those of tractor maker Deere & Co, Campbell Soup and Footlocker....
...Yet figures cited by the Environmental Investigation Agency suggest Chinese imports of Siamese rosewood and other hongmu timber from Cambodia rose sharply in 2013....
...Prices rose by almost 45 per cent in 2012 alone, as builders have constructed more homes in response to an uptick in demand from homebuyers eager to take advantage of record-low mortgage-interest rates....
...Navalny, a fierce opponent of Mr Putin who rose to prominence last year amid anti-Kremlin protests which started in December 2011, had long predicted he would be found guilty but hoped he would be given...
...Total sales rose 4.3 per cent to $16.9bn. Excluding the impact of sales at its closed EXPO home design unit in the US, sales rose 5.7 per cent....
...His plan was to sell the trees for lumber one day, and use the income to fund his retirement....
...But the Reit’s shares, which rose 20 per cent this year to a record high in mid-September, have since reversed sharply, shedding more than two-fifths of their value....
...Controversial satellite data showed that the rate of deforestation rose sharply between August and December last year....
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