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  • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
    An oral history of the fear index

    Vixtravaganza

  • Monday, 18 September, 2023
    Hedge funds
    Hedge fund bets could spark turmoil in US Treasuries, BIS warns

    Short positions in 2-year Treasury futures reached record highs in August

    A trader in New York
  • Friday, 1 September, 2023
    Exchange traded funds
    Short-term investors in SPY and QQQ warned of options risks

    Surge in use of zero-day-to-expiry instruments creates disconnect from fundamental value

  • Saturday, 19 August, 2023
    S&P 500
    Surge in zero-day options sparks fears over market volatility

    Very short-dated options account for 43% of volume in S&P 500 options

    Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell appears on a screen on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange
  • Saturday, 12 August, 2023
    Equities
    Hedge funds pile into equities after missing this year’s rally

    Commodity trading advisers aim to catch up after missing out

  • Monday, 17 July, 2023
    Markets
    XTX profits hit record £1.1bn after volatile markets boost trading firm

    Revenues from group’s three UK entities jumped 68% last year

    Traders at work in London
  • Friday, 14 July, 2023
    US equities
    Slow-burning Minsky moments

    Or Montier moments?

  • Wednesday, 5 July, 2023
    Capital markets
    Exploiting the wonderfully weird overnight drift of stocks

    Trading the witching hour

  • Saturday, 10 June, 2023
    US equities
    Bullish US stock market sits on a bed of tranquility

    Vix volatility index falls to pre-pandemic levels in spite of rising interest rates and bank failures

    The market’s tranquility may not last long, however
  • Tuesday, 23 May, 2023
    Global Economy
    R Star Star Wars: The Phantom Menace

    Fun with asterisks

  • Friday, 12 May, 2023
    The Long ViewKatie Martin
    Investors should brace for US debt ceiling turbulence

    Even if a deal is done to avert a disastrous default, the process is likely to be chaotic with risks of shocks

  • Thursday, 11 May, 2023
    Financial & markets regulation
    US default would make Cyclone Roller Coaster ‘look like a kiddie ride’

    Gensler’s worried

  • Tuesday, 25 April, 2023
    US equities
    This awfully fragile narrow no-good rally

    AI hype alone explains a chunk of the US market’s gains in 2023

  • Sunday, 23 April, 2023
    New Wall Street ‘fear gauge’ to track short-term market swings

    Cboe set to launch 1-day Volatility Index in biggest change to Vix in years

    A trader looks over computer monitors as he works in the Cboe Volatility Index pit in Chicago
  • Monday, 17 April, 2023
    Special Report
    FTfm: Fixed Income

    Bank collapses in Switzerland and the US have made bondholders reconsider risks to their capital and yield expectations. But the UK gilt market is returning to normal after political upheavals and green bonds are being held to higher standards

    Signage outside a Credit Suisse office in the Flatiron District of New York
  • Saturday, 15 April, 2023
    Hedge funds
    US regulator calls for greater scrutiny of hedge funds after bond turmoil

    SEC chair Gary Gensler says ‘once in a generation volatility’ highlights risks from shadow banking sector

    Gary Gensler, chair of the US Securities and Exchange Commission
  • Friday, 14 April, 2023
    The Long ViewKatie Martin
    Banks crisis looks short but lessons must be more enduring

    Markets have recovered from shocks in March but there is a new reality for investors

  • Thursday, 13 April, 2023
    US Treasury bonds
    Treasury troubles revisited

    The OFR wades in

  • Sunday, 2 April, 2023
    Hedge funds
    Trend-following hedge funds suffer sharp downturn in bank chaos

    Bond market reversal following collapse of Silicon Valley Bank stings so-called CTAs

    US Treasury building in Washington DC
  • Friday, 17 March, 2023
    News in-depthUS Treasury bonds
    US Treasuries’ rollercoaster ride strains bond market functioning

    Daily trading volumes more than doubled as failure of SVB sparked headlong dash to safety of government debt

    The US Treasury building in Washington
  • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
    News in-depthSecuritisation
    US mortgage market suffers fallout from bank failures

    Volatility in bonds and stocks has left lenders on sidelines of $11tn home loans-backed securities market

    Homes in McDonough, Georgia
  • Friday, 3 March, 2023
    Capital markets
    Technicals > fundamentals

    Options at warp speed

  • Friday, 17 February, 2023
    The Long ViewKatie Martin
    The contrarian dilemmas in markets for 2023

    Investors who turned bullish as recession fears mounted have done well but the outlook is now more cloudy

  • Sunday, 5 February, 2023
    US equities
    Investors pile into market rally as economic slowdown risk ebbs

    Improving outlook boosts demand for riskier assets as ‘fear of missing out’ returns

  • Friday, 3 February, 2023
    The Long ViewKatie Martin
    Robust jobs data delivers a swerve to markets

    Employment growth completely resets the main risk for investors for the rest of this year

    A man walks past a ‘Now hiring’ sign posted outside a restaurant in Arlington, Virginia
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