Indexology®: Fear of Fear Itself Reaches Crisis Levels
January 16, 2015 at 06:30 AM EST
Franklin Delano Roosevelt would be disappointed. The US fear index, officially named the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX), has ticked up, averaging 16.4 since the beginning of Q4 2014, compared to 13.5 in the first three quarters of last year. If the story stopped there, we might still be able to look...