Coronavirus boosts relevance of sleepy home price futures;Las Vegas most vulnerable

​ Financial Services | USA

【Debtwire】S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices futures have been a lonely corner of activity for the CME Group over the past decade, perhaps as home values have been reliable gainers amid falling unemployment, growth in the number of households, and a dearth of available homes. Now, the abrupt shift in the US economic outlook might draw attention to the derivatives, according to one market maker.

​John Dolan, a former CIO of Hyperion Brookfield Asset Management who has long advocated the futures contracts developed at the peak of the last real estate boom in 2006, is seeing a new opportunity to drum-up interest in them as the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic threatens to push the economy into recession and upend the benign housing environment.             

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