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CME Housing Futures and Options Summit
Co-sponsored by Tradition Financial Services (TFS) Brokerage
New York, March 2006, Video Re-Broadcast

Housing Futures and Options: What Are They, How Do They Work?
A $21-trillion asset class, U.S. housing dwarfs even the massive $15-trillion domestic equities market. At this CME Summit, experts in a potentially volatile housing arena discuss: how CME housing futures and options roll up to strategies suited for both buy and sell sides of the market…a practical overview of fundamentals of the housing market…the methodology behind the index…a lively Q&A and more.

Click below to view each Summit session:

• Melding Real Estate and Finance: Repeat Sales to Test Efficiency of Housing Market — Sam Masucci, Macro Markets; Karl Case, Wellesley College
• S&P Case Shiller Home Price Indices — Why a Need for a Hedging Market in Housing?: The Specifics — Robert Shiller, Yale University
• The Housing Boom, Rates and CME Housing Futures and Options — John Labuszewski, CME
• Futures/OTC Strategies in Housing Arena — Fritz Siebel, TFS Brokers
• Housing Roundtable — Dennis Gartman, The Gartman Letter; David Blitzer, Standard & Poor´s Corp.; Robert Shiller; Karl Case; Sam Masucci; Fritz Siebel; John Labuszewski
• Question-and-Answer Session with full panel — Part 1
• Question-and-Answer Session with full panel — Part 2

If you have questions following the CME Summit, please contact a representative of CME’s Real Estate Group at 312-930-1000.

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