The Vix is often referred to as the market’s “fear index,” but if you understand what the Vix is and how it typically moves, you can see that that is at best an oversimplification and may be ...

The Cboe VIX zoomed 39.56% to close at 30.02 on Thursday following the tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump. ... the Nasdaq 100 was 16.65% lower from its 52-week high of 22,222.61 points, ...

The ProShares Vix Mid-Term Futures ETF (NYSE:VIXM), an exchange traded fund which aims to track the VIX Index, jumped 2.2% to $16.37 on Tuesday, but was down 1.6% in pre-market trading on Wednesday.