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Charles Gross
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Housing Update: Multifamily Starts Remain Weak Despite Strong Permit Issuance

July residential construction data was somewhat weaker than we expected, due largely to soft multifamily activity. Single family activity remained more robust and consistent with our outlook for the year. We've reduced our total starts forecast to 1.22 million units in 2017, down from 1.26 million following a downward revision to our multifamily forecast.
Multifamily starts have fallen roughly 10% on a year-to-date basis. That's a stark contrast to a milder 2% decline in permitting. It would app...
Underlying
Louisiana-Pacific Corporation

Louisiana-Pacific is a provider of building solutions serving the new home construction, repair and remodeling and outdoor structures markets. The company has four segments: siding, which includes LP SmartSide? Strand and Fiber trim and siding, as well as LP Outdoor Building Solutions? products for outdoor buildings; oriented strand board (OSB), which manufactures and distributes OSB structural panel products; engineered wood products, which include LP SolidStart? I-Joist, Laminated Veneer Lumber, and other related products; and South America, which manufactures and distributes OSB structural panel and siding products in South America and certain export markets.

Provider
Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Charles Gross

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