U.S. stock futures were rising on Monday as the last full week of trading before the holidays -- and a data-heavy one to boot ...

James Surowiecki tackles the topic of housing futures in the New Yorker this week, giving the two players in the space, HedgeStreet and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, a nice credibility boost.

Hedge funds have been a big buzzword over the last decade as investors seek to "hedge their bets" in financial markets. Now there are ways to hedge your bet in the housing market. Well, maybe not you ...

Homeowners and investors feeling the pain from a dip in housing prices may find respite in a new corner of the financial market that allows them to bet on changes in future prices. In late May, the ...

As many of you know by now, CME offers housing futures for investors to take a position in. The contracts trade off of the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index that tracks single-family home prices in a ...

As many of you know by now, CME offers housing futures for investors to take a position in. The contracts trade off of the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index that tracks single-family home prices in a ...

RPX housing futures offer a different prediction than I do. Eric Nielsen of the University of Chicago offered this comment: "I spent last year working in credit research at a large MBS hedge fund and ...

Worried that the value of your house may fall? Go ahead, bet on it. Or if you don’t, maybe your mortgage holder will. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange, a financial marketplace dealing in the value of ...

You can protect yourself against stock market losses, you can get a warranty on many big-ticket items, and you can insure yourself against all sorts of unforeseen events. But you can’t do anything to ...

Your house may be special to you, but to a futures trader dealing in housing contracts, it's just another data point. "At 10,000 feet, housing is a commodity," said Fritz Siebel, a broker at TFS ...