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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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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
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Oil rally pulls stocks off their lows
oil report. In a sign of the market's uneasiness, the Chicago Board Options Exchange 's Volatility Index , also known as Wall Street's fear gauge, rose more than 3%. The VIX stands at 27.1, above its historical average of 18-20
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Stocks fall as traders fear consumers aren't perking up
shares compared with 594 million shares traded Friday. The Chicago Board Options Exchange 's Volatility Index , also known as the market's fear index, surged 13.2%. The VIX rose 3.20 to 27.47. It is down 31% in 2009 and its historical
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Stocks fall as traders await Fed's take on economy
came to 1.2 billion shares compared with 1.1 billion Monday. The Chicago Board Options Exchange 's Volatility Index spiked in a sign of investors' nervousness. The VIX , also known as the market's fear index, rose 4% to 25.99, its
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Jobless numbers punch stocks; Dow loses 223
from 3.54% late Wednesday. Meanwhile a gauge of volatility in the stock market, the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index , or VIX , jumped 1.73, or 6.6%, to 27.95 Thursday afternoon. Declining issues outnumbered
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Rising oil, commodity prices pull stocks higher
debt loads and weakness in the dollar. The Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index , or VIX , is a measure of stock market volatility that has been easing since early March. The VIX is down 37% in 2009 and stands below 26
