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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

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    • 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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