There is a tendency to cherry-pick forecasts. A market forecast can be used to serve many masters, and the source and incentives of the forecast...
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Forecasts of business and market conditions support a range of investment decisions in the timber and forest products industries.
At the end of the day, U.S. housing markets drive earnings for U.S. timber firms.
Each quarter, when updating the Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ) forecast models, our team goes through an exercise that combines spring-cleaning...
Home construction drives baseline wood demand in the United States. Without demand for wood and forest products, timber and timberland values...
Anytime we look to predict the outcome of a Super Bowl in football or World Series in baseball, we look at history and physical facts. How did teams...
In the timber industry, we care about housing starts because increased home building leads to growing demand for lumber and other building products...
Each six months, when updating our Forisk Forecast timber models, we review prior projections, and apply lessons learned from both our own work and...
In 1818, the great French mathematician and astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace said: In combining the results of these…methods, one can obtain a result...