The U.S. stock market is unusually quiet after a dramatic start to August, and that's making Wall Street panic - again. Stocks have rebounded quickly after a bruising selloff that shook up global ...

Stock market volatility peaked when the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) reached 52.3 on April 8, one of the highest readings since January 1990. The S&P 500 has typically skyrocketed during the year ...

Speculators' net short positions at three-year high, which some interpret as a sign of imminent turbulence or market reversal (CFTC/Bloomberg) Short bets by hedge funds on the so-called fear index, ...

Wall Street's fear gauge may not be so scary if you have an eye toward long-term investing. A key market fear indicator, the CBOE Volatility Index (^VIX), recently had its biggest three-day spike of ...

Although stocks have been the top-performing asset class over the last century, based on average annual return, this doesn't mean the stock market moves from Point A to B in a straight line -- and the ...

Stock market volatility refers to how much a stock's price moves up and down over time. Picture a stock swinging from $50 to $80 and then plummeting back to $30 in a few weeks. That stock has high ...

The Cboe Volatility Index hasn't been this low in months - which means it may be a good time for investors to hedge against future volatility The stock market has been acting jubilantly over the past ...

Samantha (Sam) Silberstein, CFP®, CSLP®, EA, is an experienced financial consultant. She has a demonstrated history of working in both institutional and retail environments, from broker-dealers to ...

CNN’s Fear & Greed Index is a way to gauge stock market movements and whether stocks are fairly priced. The index uses seven market indicators to help answer the question: What emotion is driving the ...

There has been a lot of talk recently about whether the VIX is the tail wagging the dog, and I thought I would chime in on the subject. The CBOE Volatility Index has clearly seen a lot of strange ...

Calm appears to have returned to Wall Street after the recent mayhem, but one volatility indicator suggests some investors are betting on another round of mammoth swings in the stock market. Wall ...