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Markets volatility

  • Monday, 5 August, 2024
    Japanese stock index suffers worst day since 1987 as global rout intensifies

    Weak US economic data could push Fed into making rapid interest rate cuts

    updated
    A monitor shows the Nikkei 225 stock index in Tokyo
  • Monday, 5 August, 2024
    Investing in funds
    Asset managers fret over lost gains as investor cash piles up on sidelines

    High-yield savings and caution over market volatility and economic sentiment have left up to $1.5tn out of the market

    BlackRock CEO Larry Fink
  • Thursday, 18 July, 2024
    FirstFT
    FirstFT quiz: the week in news

    Ten topical questions to test your news nous

  • Monday, 15 July, 2024
    Bitcoin
    Bitcoin surges as traders bet on Trump election win after shooting

    Trump Media and prison stocks also gain but solar stocks slump

    Bitcoin representation
  • Wednesday, 12 June, 2024
    UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
    American exceptionalism revisited Premium content

    And 0DTEs

    A montage of a trader at the New York Stock Exchange
  • Wednesday, 29 May, 2024
    Markets InsightGerard Lyons
    Low volatility shows investors are underpricing risk

    Policy mistakes and economic vulnerabilities could disrupt markets.

    A trader works on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange
  • Friday, 10 May, 2024
    Sovereign bonds
    The bond market liquidity ‘trilemma’

    Once more unto the breach

  • Tuesday, 7 May, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The long shadows of America’s growing debt

    A failure to acknowledge the US debt problem puts growth and stability on the line

    The US Treasury building in Washington
  • Wednesday, 17 April, 2024
    Vix ‘fear gauge’ soars on Middle East tensions and interest rate shift

    Volatility index at highest since October as investors step up protection against downside risk to equities

    The New York Stock Exchange
  • Sunday, 31 March, 2024
    Corporate bonds
    Companies rush to issue bonds to forestall US election volatility

    Corporate borrowers bring forward financing plans to avoid uncertainty of Biden-Trump rematch in November

    A montage of Joe Biden and Donlad Trump with an American flag in the background
  • Thursday, 28 March, 2024
    Traders bet US election will unsettle market calm

    Vix and VStoxx indices show expectations of volatility around prospective Biden-Trump rematch

    Montage of Joe Biden and Donald Trump and US flag
  • Monday, 25 March, 2024
    Fund management
    Henry Maxey versus the ‘massive moral hazard machine’

    And other financial market monsters

  • Wednesday, 20 March, 2024
    Investing in funds
    JPMorgan blames JPMorgan for suppressed volatility

    Once more unto the Vix discourse

  • Saturday, 16 March, 2024
    Capital markets
    Record low US options skew shows investor confidence on stock market rally

    ‘No one is really worried about small downturns,’ say investors

    Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
  • Wednesday, 13 March, 2024
    Equities
    Structured products and the ‘broken Vix’ discourse

    Whodunnit?

  • Friday, 8 March, 2024
    Structured Investment Products
    Are structured products to blame for suppressed volatility?

    It’s covered calls wut done it, says BIS

  • Thursday, 1 February, 2024
    Adventurous InvestorDavid Stevenson
    My left-field investment ideas for 2024

    There are plenty of reasons to believe things are going to get more turbulent

  • Friday, 26 January, 2024
    Personal Finance
    Lessons from a lifetime in investment

    Eternal verities in investment and finance are often counterintuitive

    A city banker, in bowler hat, walking through the City of London in 1963
  • Friday, 19 January, 2024
    Skin in the GameStuart Kirk
    Should investors care about geopolitics?

    Everyone at Davos thinks so — they are half right

  • Friday, 5 January, 2024
    Investments
    What can investors expect from 2024?

    After a surprise surge in shares in recent weeks, there is uncertainty ahead in the next year

  • Sunday, 31 December, 2023
    Financial & markets regulation
    Europe’s top securities regulator warns on risks from leveraged trades

    Esma’s Verena Ross says efforts to monitor and curb bets that use borrowed money need to go further

    Verena Ross, chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority
  • Wednesday, 20 December, 2023
    US interest rates
    Jump in US overnight lending rates awakens fears of money market strains

    Sofr’s brief divergence from Fed’s repo rate has rattled investors

    The US Federal Reserve building in Washington
  • Thursday, 7 December, 2023
    US interest rates
    Only rates markets are pricing in recession

    It’s fine to ignore the US bond market, right?

  • Saturday, 2 December, 2023
    Wall Street ‘fear gauge’ tumbles as investors spy end of Fed’s inflation fight

    Vix is trading close to a four-year low as stocks surge

  • Tuesday, 21 November, 2023
    Markets
    Charlie McElligott, meat-powered market mystic

    Catching up with Wall Street’s most wired analyst

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