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Deja vu of deja vu

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2012

Scare me not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2012
... to pounce if it gets too much for comfort. This is the thing - it's not that spooky yet. Despite the scary headlines, the VIX "fear" index is less than a tick above 20 points. That's not fear. It jumped to 45.5 in October last year. That was scary. That ...

No surprise in surprises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2012
... starting to take effect? And Virginia, you'll know there's really no surprise in all these surprises when you look at the VIX "fear" index. It closed at 18.97 last night - below the plus 21 reading when speculations of a default in small country Greece ...

Dip buyers buy the dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2012
... slowing. But as we've seen overnight, these have not prevented the dip buyers from buying the dips. And why should they when the VIX index - the fear gauge - has not sounded the alarm bells? The index closed at 19.6 last night, still lower than 2012's ...

ETN fears grow following price plunges

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2012
... of exotic Exchange Traded Notes is raising fears in the US, following a price crash in a popular ETN that was tracking the VIX index, that the notes are poorly understood. ETNs, as distinct to regular Exchange Traded Funds, are a form of unsecured structured ...

QE going, going ...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012
... rising inflation there. But has the market suddenly become so fearful again? Don't think so. Not when the "fear gauge" - the VIX index - closed at just 16.44 overnight - that's not fear. Even it's intra-day high of 17.74 is lower than the plus 20 posted ...

When optimism rains, it pours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2012
... most of this year. And it still hasn't come. And as if to mock me even more, that measure of volatility and/or fear - the VIX index - dropped to 13.99 points in intra-day trade the other day. This level is the lowest since June 2007. Get that? This was ...

Recycled scares

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012
... only a recycling of old spooks. And in spite of the headline-grabbing drops in many equity indices, that index of fear - the VIX index - rose to only 20.87 points last night, lower than the 23.40 points it registered at the start of 2012 and less than ...

Volatility is MIA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012
... gyrated only between down 0.4% and up 0.32% before closing 0.15% overnight. Ouch! The official measure of volatility -- the VIX index -- closed below 20 overnight. This is down from above 20 reading at the start of the year and down, down from last year's ...

Stirrings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2012
... underway in Europe. There's nothing like the smell of a European summit to scare the bejeesus out of financial markets. The VIX index spiked to a high of 20.33 overnight - a 9.7% increase from the previous day's level - before settling down 4.7% on the ...