A rout in the S&P 500 Index has boosted demand for short-term hedges, flipping the Cboe VIX Futures curve into a rare inversion. Traders who had been lining up options to hedge against a steep ...

Oct. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Futures tied to investor expectations for stock swings next year are posting record declines after European leaders agreed on a plan to contain the region's debt crisis. The ...

Options markets that have been placid for the first half of 2024 are showing little sign early Monday of being roiled by the failed assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, with 10-year ...

A trader snapped up call options tied to the Cboe Volatility Index, positioning for a pickup in stock market swings within the next month. A trader bought about 250,000 call contracts on the VIX Index ...

A slump in the S&P 500 Index on Monday sent the Cboe Volatility Index a hair away from 30, the level it last reached during the volatility shock in August. The VIX reached 29.56 shortly after 3 p.m.

When it comes to hedging, should investors favor VIX calls or S&P 500 Index puts? The question has become central as spikes in the Cboe Volatility Index have grown increasingly ephemeral. Consider ...

Volatility may be due to expand starting next week as the equity market loses some of that stickiness around the 5,000 level on the S&P 500. Additionally, it appears that option flows, for now, are ...

Traders are the least concerned about wild stock market swings since before the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a key gauge of options values. The Cboe Volatility Index, which measures the 30-day ...

Traders sold short-term VIX call options Tuesday as the biggest S&P 500 slide in 14 months sent the fear gauge to the highest since early November. About 1.76 million contracts changed hands a day ...

This time, it wasn’t derivatives’ fault. When the stock market goes haywire, questions often arise about whether the surge in options trading in recent years could be responsible for aggravating ...

Traders are making big bets on stock market turbulence as the S&P 500 Index retreats from its record high and investors wonder when, not if, the Federal Reserve will start cutting interest rates. An ...

There has been a lot of information for the market to digest so far this year and rates volatility has drifted lower with the Fed on hold for now, while elevated US economic policy uncertainty has ...