Markets are ignoring global instability – but a reckoning looms Opinion Despite simmering political crises and looming economic risks, markets are riding a low-volatility sugar high – fuelled by central bank interventions – but the longer reality is ignored, the sharper the eventual correction, says Helen Thomas With markets taking an early summer holiday, basking in the glow of record highs for the S&P500, it can [...]
Fear index hits highest level since pandemic Markets Traders’ so-called ‘fear gauge’ has reached its highest level since the onset of the pandemic, as investors brace for more market uncertainty in the wake of Trump’s swingeing tariffs. The Vix index, which shows the US stock market’s expectation of volatility over the next month, reached as high as 60 in the early hours of [...]
