Interactive Chart for CBOE VIX Strangle Index (^VSTG), analyze all the data with a huge range of indicators.

It has been a more volatile market. The VIX index closed at 52.33 on Apr. 8. That came after it hit an intraday high of 60.13 a day earlier. The average VIX close for the month: around 32.3.

The VIX volatility index is not only low for this time of year, but it's low for this time of year in an election year. Yahoo Finance's Julie Hyman joins me now with a closer look, Julie. 00:13 ...

Trump's Tariff Threats Ignited the Market's Fear Gauge President Trump's latest tariff threats dashed any hope of a sleepy Friday before the long weekend for Wall Street. The CBOE Volatility Index, or ...

The one-day VIX index would have more than doubled in value from 15.30 to 40.19 between March 8 and March 13 as stocks reacted to the recent bank crisis, according to a Cboe model.

As we saw from a graph above on historic levels for front month VIX futures, the average front month level is 20, with lower levels characteristic of bull markets, and higher levels in bear markets.

Market angst sees the Cboe VIX index — a gauge of expected S&P 500 volatility — trade around 23, notably above its long-term average of 19.5. However, as the chart below from Capital Economics ...

In fact, five of the 10 highest VIX values since the index launched in 1993 occurred in the lead up to the 2008 financial crisis, while the remaining five are associated with the COVID-19-induced ...

If VIX activity goes up, the stock market will probably go down. On April 7, the index soared to 60.13, its highest closing level since the COVID-19 pandemic five years ago, Reuters reported.

The chart shows that after reaching an 8.56 low in November 2017, the VIX has remained above the 10 level. While it is currently sitting between 14 and 16, the base level has increased over the ...