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‘Fear Gauge’ Goes Up

16-Jun-09

The Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index (more popularly known as the VIX) added 9.7% to jump to 30.89 yesterday. This upward-movement of the Index, which is widely accepted as a ‘fear gauge’, suggests that there may be dark skies ahead for the U.S. stock market as investors have gotten more anxious. In the same [...]

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Investors Worried About The U.S. Economy?

20-May-09

Are investors worried about the U.S. economy? Not really it seems. Wall Street’s most widely-used gauge of investor confidence – the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index (VIX) is hinting that investors are less worried about the overall economy. The VIX is calculated from Standard & Poor’s 500 index option prices and is designed to [...]

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