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Markets have bounced back from December's selloff. Russ discusses whether investors have shifted sentiment too quickly. As every fan of horror movies knows, the best way to elicit screams is to lull the audience into a false sense of security. It's when everyone has relaxed, thinking the w...

The iPath 500 VIX Short-Term Futures ETN ( VXX -1% ), which is sold by Barclays ( BCS +0.5% ), will mature as scheduled on Jan. 30, ending a popular way to bet on a gauge of expected gyrations in the S&P 500 Index. More news on: iPath S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures ETN, Barcl...

Stocks have benefited from an upside bias here in early 2019 , but I am concerned about what is to come later this spring. Raising my alarm, the Conference Board just published an ominous signal about the forward economy. The economy is the most important factor for stock market performance, ...

The slump that erased stocks' gains late last year is likely to recur as the economic expansion ages and due to changes in the market structure since the end of the financial crisis, Daniel Pinto, co-president of JPMorgan Chase ( JPM +0.1% ), told CNBC at the World Economic Forum last we...

Market Intro Wall St. Journal CNBC: 1:28 PM EST Investors continued to feed the stock market rally, now in its fifth week for US stocks ( SPY , DIA , QQQ , IWM ). The reading on spot VIX is now just half what it was just before Christmas. We saw a decent dip this week, but inv...

By Aneet Chachra, CFA On January 2, Apple (AAPL) announced its Q4 results would be weaker than expected. Trading in Apple shares was halted at 4:30 p.m. New York time (well after the official 4 p.m. market close), the press release came out and shares resumed trading at 4:50 p.m. Large ass...

Volatility is not a direct measure of fear or risk, but a measure of how strongly price action deviates around the mean. Low volatility indicates that the price of a security should not swing wildly around the mean and vice versa. Therefore, being long volatility is a bet on change. This can b...