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Fairy tales may come true

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2015
... now. Absent a significant exogenous shock, the fed funds target rate will be 25 bps higher by 16 December. While the VIX index rose by 8.5% last night, at a reading of 15.91 the "fear gauge" showed no fear only normal volatility. This is because the ...

Pepared for "lift-off" watch out for "ceasing"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2015
... soon come a-visiting. The S&P 500 index maybe off 0.1% overnight but this followed a 1.6% jump the night before. The VIX index was up 0.8% last night but not before dropping 10.6% the night before. This despite the fact that it's all systems go for a ...

No December lift off? Small chance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2015
... in June... and then in September. We were sure lift-off was coming, until it didn't. Will this time be different? The VIX index says yes it will. It dropped by 10.6% to a reading of 16.85 overnight. Wall Street says yes it will. The S&P 500 index rallied ...

August angst to September mourn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
... safe to go back into the risk waters. Financial markets are again in upheaval and fear is once more on the rise - the VIX index spiked 10.5% overnight to a reading of 31.40. It's China that did it! Oh yes, Virginia, yesterday's official PMI result reminded ...

A$ falls to the occasion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
... it's the Australian dollar's depreciation that has shielded the Australian economy during times of extreme fear (the VIX index is inverted in the chart). The A$/US$ sank from US$0.80 to below US$60 during the Asian financial crisis; it fell from around ...

Gloom and doom news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... no place to hide, everywhere you look, there's gloom and... there's doom. Financial markets are running scared - the VIX index jumped by 46.5% to a reading of 28.03 at the end of last week's trading activity. This is the highest reading since the 30.59 ...

Three for three

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
... chart of the bang, bang, bang devaluation move by China's central bank in its proper context. Not surprising that the VIX index - the fear gauge - barely registered fear, ey?

Chinese whispers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... Chinese equity market we've seen over the past few months. Nothing China's powers that are couldn't handle. Even the VIX index - the "fear gauge" - is not perturbed. It rose from 13.74 last Friday to 15.60 last night. This is lower than the plus 20 reading ...

Stirred but not shaken

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
... dropped, marginally, the first trading day after Greece went from teetering on the brink into the brink. And oh, the VIX index - yes that measure of fear - jumped a staggering 1.3% to a reading of 17.01. That's what the sum of all the markets' fears ...

An ordinary trading day on D-day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
... this day as financial markets did 'not' fear. Yes Virginia, did NOT fear. Despite the 'chicken little' headlines, the VIX index - the "fear gauge" - reached a peak reading of only 18.85 over the past month (15.8% below the 2015 peak of 22.39 hit in January). ...