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...The Vix — which measures the premiums investors are willing to pay to protect their portfolios against swings in the S&P 500 index and is popularly known as Wall Street’s “fear gauge” — fell to 12.4 this...
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...The blue-chip gauge shed 0.1 per cent on Friday. That ended a six-session winning streak, which included five record closing highs for the index....
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...The Hang Seng China Enterprises index, a widely referenced gauge for large Chinese listings in Hong Kong, has since been hit by China’s economic slowdown and rising geopolitical tensions between Beijing...
...Strategists at Goldman Sachs set a 12-month target of 3,900 for the CSI 300 index, which would require a rise of more than 19 per cent from the gauge’s current level....
...The Vix curve shows a steady rise over the next six months from its current level of 12.8....
...The benchmark S&P 500 share gauge closed 0.8 per cent lower, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite index dropped 0.9 per cent....
...It has more than halved to about 5,450 points since peaking above 12,000 in February 2021....
...But 12 months on, hundreds of thousands of them remain in shelters....
...Meanwhile, the Vix volatility index — known as Wall Street’s “fear gauge” — rose to its highest point since May....
...That may offer a better gauge of the outlook for the US economy....
...LVMH shares rose 12.8 per cent after it said turnover rose 10 per cent in the three months to December, exceeding analysts’ expectations and easing concerns it would be hit hard by an economic slowdown in...
...The shutdown would begin at 12.01am on Sunday....
...The HBF’s latest Housing Pipeline report, which tracks planning permissions for housing in England and is seen as a gauge of future supply levels, recorded the lowest 12 month rolling total since its survey...
...The two-year yield — which closely tracks interest rate expectations — lurched 0.12 percentage points higher to 5.22 per cent as the debt instrument’s price fell....
...The average high-yield or “junk” spread is hovering at 3.12 percentage points, around its narrowest level since December 2021....
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