Heard of the VIX, but not quite sure what it means? We’ll give you the basics on this popular volatility index.

The Cboe Volatility Index, known commonly as Wall Street’s fear gauge, was jumping early Thursday, as investor angst over U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff war pushed stock-index futures sharply ...

Bitcoin's 30-day implied volatility, represented by Deribit's DVOL index, rose slightly to an annualized 54.57%, the highest ...

Total put option volume rose to a record high as investors snapped up protection against further declines. The VIX ended the ...

Any spike in trading volumes due to higher volatility and wild swings will heap pressure on the exchange, which is already ...

Dow Jones futures will open Sunday evening, along with S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq futures, after Trump tariffs triggered the ...

Wall Street's "fear gauge" is back at pandemic-era levels, reflecting escalating unease about the market fallout from ...

Investors are looking for signs the selling in the U.S. stock market may have reached a crescendo, but say that the check ...

Options traders are betting that market volatility is here to stay. The Cboe Volatility Index, or VIX, known as Wall Street's ...

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' chief ...

As Wall Street draws the curtain on a tumultuous quarter in which stocks logged a record high before tumbling into correction ...

But it's not so much the fresh lurch higher for the "VIX" that is a concern for Nicholas Colas, co-founder of DataTrek Research. Such spikes often signal buying opportunities for stocks ...