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Fedcident waiting to happen?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
... three scheduled talks this week and still... nada, nil, zilch. Still, financial markets remain relatively calm. The VIX index - the fear gauge - climbed overnight but at 14.01, is still below the 15.39 reading high this month (when the Greek saga went ...

Grexit nears, markets cheer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... has become even more elusive than it was Friday and yesterday. Grexit here we come! And yet, the "fear gauge" - the VIX index - dropped 3.8% to 14.81 overnight. And yet, European stocks rebounded - the Stoxx 600 index increased by 0.65% -- after Friday ...

Greece in crisis (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2015
... extended..." - 20 Feb 1050PM GMT But is there really that fear in the markets today? For this we turn to the "fear gauge" - the VIX index - it was up 11.7% overnight (oh-em-gee!), but at 15.39, it's less fearful than February's 18.55 points, waaay down ...

Who's scared of Grexit or lift-off?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
... Then again, while Grexit continues to be a convenient excuse whenever volatility stirs, this isn't supported by the VIX index's - the fear gauge - recent readings. Grexit used to be associated with VIX readings of 40 plus - 45.8 in May 2010; 48.0 in ...

'Brexit' betting booths now taking bets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
... impatient" taking over its place. The tale of the tape over the past week showed that Wall Street was pleased - the VIX index, the US dollar index and US bond yields fell from the prior week (before the Fed) while the US equity market rose. Yippee-kay-yay! ...

The real problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
... markets gave to the deletion of the word 'patient' in the FOMC statement has gotten less perverse while we slept - the VIX index rose, so did the US dollar and US bond yields; US equities and commodity prices fell. This is because no matter how you slice ...

'Patient' Party

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... perhaps, perhaps. But whatever it was financial markets went the opposite way to where they were expected to go. The VIX index dove by 10.8% The US dollar index dropped by 2.3%; the yield on 10-year US Treasuries dropped by 13 bps to 1.92% and the yield ...

A win-win currency war?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
... this time different? The "taper tantrum" of mid-2013 sent yields on 10-year US Treasuries up, US equities lower and the VIX index rising... and then the tantrum tapered. Financial markets learned to live with it. Yields on 10-year bonds - 2.05% currently ...

LMCI's portrait of labour market conditions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
... on US 10-year bonds increased by 13 basis points to 2.24% -- its highest level since the day before Xmas 2014 and the VIX index jumped by 8.3% to a reading of 15.2 (though this still reads normal palpitation, not fear). You know the drill -- a healthy ...

Mind over matter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2015
... Grexit these days - that is, if you don't mind, it doesn't matter. The performance of the markets' fear gauge - the VIX index - tells us so. It jumped by 4.3% last night. But at 14.91, it depicts sentiment that is just right - neither alarmed nor complacent. ...