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The Fed lady and the Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2016
... Check. If the continuing rally on Wall Street - despite higher bond prices - and gains in other major equity markets and VIX index that shows no fear (currently at 11.75) is not a favourable development, I don't know what is. Some would argue though ...

Locked in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2016
... This is because Wall Street has resigned itself to a Fed rate hike by the middle of this month... and without fear (the VIX index remained at a low 14.12 reading). The strength of other data released before the payrolls report made this moot, employment ...

Trump's helping hand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2016
... has indirectly given her the go ahead to lift. Trump's victory has lessened fear, as depicted by the sharp fall in the VIX index from a 5-month high of 22.51 heading into the US presidential elections to 12.85 (the lowest since September) at the close ...

The twenty-first night of September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2016
... candlestick maker expect the worst as underlined by the sharp falls in equities, bond and commodity markets and the VIX index soared by 39.9% at the end of last week's trading activity. Worse than worst, this is happening in September -- the month of ...

Returning Fed hike expectations could be flattened by yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2016
... on onto their portfolios. Fear, it seems, has left the building... or driven out by the strong US jobs numbers. The VIX index closed 10.6% down to a reading of 13.2 - and down on the day the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that non-farm payrolls ...

Parting could be such sweet sorrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2016
... heart of this current volatility in the financial markets. Nobody knows for sure. Speaking of fear, the ever-reliable VIX index - the fear gauge - has risen to a high of just 20.97 (13 June) this close to the referendum. For perspective, the VIX index ...

Time to fear the no "fear gauge"?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2016
... more than once. What better measure to check the market's acceptance of this fate than the continuing decline in the VIX index - "the fear gauge". The index dropped another 2.3% to 13.12 on the day Yellen Fedspoke. This is the lowest reading in nine ...

May sell may go away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2016
... and those that are up are up only small time. At the same time, neither are "others" fearful. Just have a look at the VIX index. It printed at 15.7 at the end of April which is almost half of the 2016 high of 28.14 and many, many points away from its ...

The Fed's done it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2015
... there to unlike? The S&P 500 index and the Nasdaq Composite index jumped by 1.5% and the Dow climbed by 1.3%. And the VIX index? It dropped by 14.8% to a reading of 17.86 now that lift-off uncertainty has been removed. What remains uncertain though is ...

Three days to lift off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2015
... 500 index is not as flustered as it was back in August and September when the Fed delayed the expected and so is the VIX index - the fear gauge - although it remains to be seen how they'll fare over the next three days heading into lift-off. While there's ...