The VIX, formally known as the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) Volatility Index, measures how much volatility professional investors think the S&P 500 index will experience over the next 30 ...

Commonly referred to as the "fear index," the VIX is a measure of expected stock market volatility that is calculated with S&P 500 options prices. It often spikes when U.S. stocks tumble.

Over the past 7 trading days, Wall Street's volatility gauge the S&P VIX Index has collapsed by 60.3% from 38.57 down to ...

The Cboe Volatility Index, or VIX, is a benchmark used to measure the expected future volatility of the S&P 500 index. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising ...

Getty Images. The Cboe Volatility Index, or VIX, estimates the 30-day forward-looking volatility of the S&P 500 based on call and put options.

The S&P 500 VIX correlation is simply how the S&P 500 and the VIX move relative to one another. From the chart above, it’s easy to see the strongly negative correlation between the stock market and ...

The S&P 500 and the Cboe volatility index tend to trend in opposite directions since investors have less to worry about when the stock market rallies and vice versa. However, in recent days, this ...

VIX uses this to calculate a single number, updated throughout the day, that represents volatility. Though VIX measures only the S&P 500's volatility, it's become "a benchmark for the U.S. stock ...

The Cboe Volatility Index – frequently referred to by its ticker symbol, "the VIX" — is a real-time measure of implied volatility on the benchmark S&P 500 Index (SPX). Not only is the VIX used ...

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