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Today in History
States exploded beneath the Nevada desert a 1.3 megaton nuclear device called "Boxcar." In 1973, the Chicago Board Options Exchange held its first day of trading. In 1986, a major nuclear accident occurred at the Chernobyl plant in
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Options Exchange Reopens After Half-Day Outage
Poor's 500 index, according to CBOE spokesperson Gail Osten. Trading of ten minutes later, according to the CBOE 's Twitter feed. Options give the stocks or other financial assets. The CBOE is the largest U.S. options exchange
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Options Exchange Fails to Open
the exchange will reopen. Stock options give the holder the right, but not the obligation, to buy and sell stocks. The CBOE is the largest U.S. options exchange. Many of the most frequently-traded stock options are bought and sold on its exchange
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5 Ways to Make Money Online From Homeforecasting election results or the price of gold? Then predictive sites are for you. Introduced by the Chicago Board Options Exchange in 2008, binary options are financial contracts that let you earn money by predicting the rise or fall
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Ask Matt: Are fears of impending doom stifling investors?
return of about 8%, which is just slightly below the market's long-term returns. Additionally, the CBOE market volatility index , a rough gauge of how nervous investors are, has been pretty low. The index was well below 25, a level
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U.S. investors worry bailout of Spain won't be enough
euro, Farr says, threatening to disrupt the construction of one of the world's leading currencies. The CBOE Market Volatility index , a measure of U.S. investors' fear, jumped 10%. •Strengthen the dollar. The chaos in Europe pushed
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VIX 'fear index' makes an intriguing hedge for investors
expenses.) One mildly promising hedge is the CBOE 's VIX index, often called the fear index. The VIX is a measure of expected volatility, based on those volatile souls in the options market. A VIX reading of 10, for example, means that the
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How to Protect Investments Amidst Debt Talksfunds base their prices on movements on the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index , known as the VIX . (An exchange traded fund is a mutual have drawbacks: They may not track the VIX precisely, and some funds use futures
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Dow appears in a swingin' mood
in 2008. •Low volatility expectations. The CBOE Market Volatility Index , or VIX , measures investors' forecasts for volatility from its level in August 2008. Even so, the VIX is up 5% this year. If anything, though, the
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Here's how to ditch your fund manager and try index investing
at IndexUniverse, points to the C-Tracks Volatility Index Total Return Exchange-traded Note, which and fourth-month futures contracts on the CBOE volatility index (the " VIX Index") with a short exposure to the S&P
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Stocks rise as pace of job losses slows, but still lower for the week
on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note rose to 3.45% from 3.35% late Thursday. The Chicago Board Options Exchange 's Volatility Index — known as the market's "fear index" — fell 6.8% to 25.3. It's down 36.9% in
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Options trading: First, you have to learn the lingo
learning more about options strategies, consider checking out "Options Playbook" in the library, or the Chicago Board Options Exchange 's Options Institute . Matt Krantz is a financial markets reporter at USA TODAY and author of Investing
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Tribune Co. will sell Cubs, Wrigley Field to Ricketts family
luck and hope they will bring a World Series title to Chicago." Tom Ricketts was a market maker at the Chicago Board Options Exchange and finance executive before starting investment bank Incapital LLC in 1999. The Ricketts family sold
