Market volatility 101: What is the VIX, and whats driving it? The CBOE Volatility Index (^VIX) has been spiking again this week Yahoo Finance Markets and Data Editor Jared Blikre, who also hosts Yahoo Finance's Stocks in Translation podcast, explains what's
What is volatility and how does it work? | Fidelity Volatility is a significant, unexpected, rapid fluctuation in trading prices due to a large swath of people buying or selling investments around the same time In the stock market, volatility can affect groups of stocks, like those measured by the S P 500 ® and Nasdaq Composite indexes
Volatility (finance) - Wikipedia In finance, volatility (usually denoted by "σ") is the degree of variation of a trading price series over time, usually measured by the standard deviation of logarithmic returns Historic volatility measures a time series of past market prices
What Is Volatility? Understanding Market Swings With investments, volatility refers to changes in an asset's or market's price — especially as measured against its usual behavior or a benchmark Volatility is often expressed as a percentage: