Notably, no sectors managed to evade losses on Friday. Amid escalating threats in the Middle East, oil prices surged, with West Texas Intermediate (WTI) light crude climbing by 1.2% to reach $87 ...

The CBOE VIX index, the option-derived measure of expected S&P 500 volatility that's known as Wall Street's fear gauge, has eased back slightly from the highs seen during the latest market sell-off.

The Cboe Volatility Index, or VIX, climbed to 22.78 on Monday. That is its highest closing level since the day after the Federal Reserve’s December meeting, when the central bank’s wait-and ...

While the S&P 500, Nasdaq 100 and Dow experienced relatively modest losses ranging between 0.3% and 0.4%, the CBOE Volatility Index, or VIX, surged ... $2,160 per ounce. Oil prices surged, with ...

The current TMC Research VIX Risk Indicator (VRI) reading is mildly negative (-0.24, as of 2:15pm Eastern on Feb. 6). That aligns with a neutral reading for the VIX outlook. In other words ...

The VIX index has been around for decades, measuring the implied volatility of the S&P 500 stocks, the most diversified U.S. stock market index. Implied volatility is a consensus sentiment ...