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Stock Index, Oil and Other Futures Markets - Lecture 22

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This lecture explains how futures markets extend beyond agricultural cycles to financial securities, oil, and residential real estate. It examines fair value, contango, backwardation, oil-price volatility and geopolitics, and the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index.

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- Chapter 1. Introduction: On the Extinction of Ticker Tapes
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- Chapter 2. How Futures Markets Included Financial Securities
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- Chapter 3. Fair Value and the Influences of Contango and Backwardation
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- Chapter 4. Volatility in the Oil Futures Market
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- Chapter 5. Why Is the Price of Oil so High? On International Development, Nationalization, and World Politics
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- Chapter 6. The Development of a Home Price Futures Market
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- Chapter 7. The S&P Case-Shiller Home Price Index and Conclusion
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