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Greed is good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... the masters of the universe. There's certainly fear in the financial markets now as reflected by the 22.6% jump in the VIX index to 42.99 last night. Chances are there'll be more to volatility in store given the current edgy state of financial markets. ...

The other Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011
... index ended 0.1% on the up. To be sure, to be sure, I'm not so sure that equity markets were really that panicked. The VIX index told me so. The market's "fear" gauge jumped by 1.2% overnight. But at 16.1, this could not even be classed as palpitation ...

VIX says no fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2011
... ready, you sure? The answer is it was never really there in the first place. That is, of course, if you believe in the VIX index - the financial markets' 'fear' gauge. The index jumped to 21.2 yesterday - not even above its long-term average of 20.3. ...

U-G-L-Y

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2011
... be what the current VIX - "fear" -- index reading suggests. Despite another big fall on Wall Street last Friday, the VIX index went down by 0.8 per cent instead of going up. At 17.95, the index is down 38.9 per cent from its 2011 high of 29.40 hit in ...

Oil at US$300

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2011
... during the GFC or when the European sovereign debt crisis occupied the headlines. And when fear is mentioned, there's the VIX index to measure that. Currently or since the MENA tension erupted, the index had been trading at around 20. Sure this is about ...

S&P and ASX launch Aussie "fear index"

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
... version of the "VIX" volatility index, colloquially referred to as the gauge of fear on Wall Street. The S&P/ASX 200 VIX index will measure the expected volatility of the benchmark S&PASX 200 index. The higher the reading, the greater investor expectations ...

The retaking of Dow 11000

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2010
... shares the same view. Current polling shows high levels of optimism among investors, highlighted by the decline in the VIX index - the fear index - to its lowest level since July 2007 (before we even coined the three letters G, F and C together). For ...

Miranda Kerr and the market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
... happen. The S&P 500 index fell by more than 3.0 per cent overnight, the Dow flirted below the 10,000 point mark and the VIX index spiked by 26 per cent on indications that America's jobs market may be worsening. Europe had its own bad day as renewed ...

Pleasant and nasty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2009
... consumer confidence in October. What about market indicators? Credit default spreads have narrowed significantly and the VIX Index - or what others call the volatility index - has fallen to its September 2008 lows. It is therefore not surprising that ...

Darling buds of May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2009
... - are returning to normal. Banks are more willing to lend - Libor/OIS spread - to each other. Volatility is easing - VIX index. Trade flows are well, flowing again - Baltic Exchange Dry Index. And, the US stress test revealed that banks are not so stressed ...