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S&P Releases Historical Pricing Data On New S&P/Case-Shiller Metro Area Home Price Indices

Date 17/04/2006

Standard & Poor’s announced today that it released 18 years of historical pricing data on the soon to be launched S&P/Case-Shiller Metro Area Home Price Indices. The indices, which will be launched during the second quarter of this year and which are generated in partnership with MacroMarkets and Fiserv, measure residential housing prices in ten individual metropolitan areas within the United States. A weighted composite index is also calculated.

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