$VIX
1 long-form article and 93 pre-market mentions covering $VIX from AskMelon Research.
Friday, July 24, 2026
Futures try to steady the ship after Thursday's rout — S&P 500 +0.20%, Dow +0.43%, Nasdaq 100 +0.05% — as WTI slips back below $90 (Brent under $100) on US–Iran ceasefire chatter and Intel rips ~+3–4%…
Thursday, July 23, 2026
Futures slip a third straight session — S&P 500 –0.26%, Nasdaq 100 –0.28% — as the two biggest names from last night's tape, Alphabet (–3.63%) and Tesla (–5.52%), both "sell the news" despite beats, a…
Wednesday, July 22, 2026
Futures give back part of Tuesday's chip-led rebound — S&P 500 –0.31%, Nasdaq 100 –0.77% — as Brent crude builds toward a six-week high near $94 on an 11th consecutive night of US strikes on Iran and …
Tuesday, July 21, 2026
Futures point to a real chip-led rebound — S&P 500 +0.52%, Nasdaq 100 +1.39% — as the semiconductor complex stages its cleanest recovery since last week's rout, with Micron and Marvell both up ~6% pre…
Monday, July 20, 2026
Futures point to a relief bounce — S&P 500 +0.2%, Nasdaq 100 +0.4% — after the semiconductor complex's worst week in over a year, but Friday's real trigger wasn't the crowded-positioning story flagged…
Saturday, July 18, 2026
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Saturday, July 18, 2026
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Saturday, July 18, 2026
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Saturday, July 18, 2026
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Saturday, July 18, 2026
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Saturday, July 18, 2026
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Friday, July 17, 2026
The AI-crowded-trade unwind that Bank of America flagged as "the most crowded trade ever" is now a two-day fact — Nikkei –4.73%, Taiwan –6.5%, and US futures pointing sharply lower — and it is swallow…
Thursday, July 16, 2026
TSM's Q2 blowout at 2 AM ET — $4.31 EPS against $3.83 consensus, $40.2B revenue at +33.7% YoY, with AI high-performance compute now 66% of all revenue — is the most authoritative single-print validati…
Tuesday, July 14, 2026
The US Naval blockade of Iranian ports, announced for 4 PM ET today, converts the week's dominant geopolitical narrative from "Hormuz closure declaration" to "enforced blockade with legal and commerci…
Sunday, July 12, 2026
The Strait of Hormuz has been formally declared closed for the second time in 2026: Iran's IRGC Navy announced Sunday that the waterway is shut after US Central Command completed its third wave of pre…
Thursday, July 9, 2026
The Iran shock that defined Wednesday's tape half-lived overnight: Trump told reporters it is unclear whether the US and Iran are returning to full-scale war and that Iran had called to make a deal, c…
Wednesday, July 8, 2026
Trump declared the US–Iran interim ceasefire "over" at the NATO summit in Ankara overnight — after the IRGC struck American military bases in Bahrain and Kuwait and Washington revoked its Iranian oil …
Monday, July 6, 2026
US markets reopen from a three-day Independence Day closure to find tech firmly in the driver's seat: Nasdaq futures are surging +1.12% on SpaceX Nasdaq-100 pre-positioning mechanics and aggressive se…
Friday, July 3, 2026
Independence Day observed. NYSE, Nasdaq, and the US bond market are fully closed. Next trading day: Monday, July 6, 2026. All framing below is forward-looking to the Monday open.
Thursday, July 2, 2026
Q3's second session opens on a knife-edge: chipmakers are clawing back Wednesday's brutal −5% flush, futures are modestly green, and the whole tape is coiled around one 8:30 AM print — June payrolls, …
Wednesday, July 1, 2026
Q3's first session opens with the market's most-crowded H1 trade — the memory/semiconductor super-cycle — in profit-taking mode, two consecutive soft US data prints, and a Fed Chair who refused to giv…
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
The last session of a powerful quarter opens quiet-but-constructive: after Monday's broad rally carried the Dow to its first-ever close above 52,000, futures are modestly green, Asia's memory names cl…
Monday, June 29, 2026
The weekend flipped the tape: late Sunday the US and Iran agreed to halt their tit-for-tat strikes near the Strait of Hormuz and set technical talks for June 30 in Doha — draining the geopolitical ris…
Sunday, June 28, 2026
The 60-day Iran road map that was supposed to deliver a final deal by August 16 survived exactly nine days before the Strait of Hormuz became a shooting gallery again: Iran launched four one-way attac…
Friday, June 26, 2026
The cost-push reversal nobody modeled arrived Thursday: Apple raised Mac and iPad prices by 17–25% (Mac models ~18%, iPad models 20–25%) and Microsoft announced Xbox hikes of $100–$150 — both citing A…
Thursday, June 25, 2026
Micron obliterated every estimate in semiconductor history — $41.46B revenue against a ~$35.7B consensus, 84.9% record gross margin, Q4 guidance of $50B — transforming Tuesday's KOSPI-contagion flush …
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
Micron reports at 4:30 PM — after Tuesday's −13.18% KOSPI-contagion wipeout, with 27/30 analysts at Buy and ±17% vol loaded — while Bank of America projected three 2026 Fed hikes (Deutsche Bank at two…
Tuesday, June 23, 2026
The global AI crowding trade faces its stiffest test of the year: KOSPI's 10% circuit-breaker collapse — Samsung and SK Hynix both down 12% simultaneously — signals that even the HBM thesis is subject…
Monday, June 22, 2026
The peace dividend collides with its first credibility test: Trump called the Iran ceasefire "on life support" over the weekend as Lebanon fighting erupted and Geneva talks were cancelled, while UK Pr…
Sunday, June 21, 2026
The week of June 15–19 ended with a double resolution that immediately unraveled: the S&P 500 recovered to 7,500.58 (+1.08%) on Thursday June 18 — confirming markets could absorb Warsh's hawkish inaug…
Saturday, June 20, 2026
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Saturday, June 20, 2026
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Friday, June 19, 2026
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Thursday, June 18, 2026
Kevin Warsh's inaugural dot plot landed the week's decisive blow — nine of eighteen officials now project a 2026 rate hike, the median year-end rate jumped forty basis points to 3.8%, and the S&P 500 …
Wednesday, June 17, 2026
Kevin Warsh takes the podium at 2:30 PM for his inaugural press conference as Fed Chair — the rate hold at 3.50–3.75% is ~97–98% priced, the dot plot has been written, and nothing that prints before 2…
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
The Bank of Japan hiked to 1.00% overnight in a 7-1 decision — Japan's highest rate since 1995 — the Nikkei briefly crossed 70,000 for the first time in its history before closing at 69,404, and marke…
Sunday, June 14, 2026
The week of June 9–13 resolved its midweek CPI crisis into a constructive finish — S&P 500 closed Friday at 7,431.46 (+0.7% on the week, recovering above the June 5 NFP shock level of 7,383.74) — driv…
Saturday, June 13, 2026
Your Saturday morning market coffee. The week the S&P 500 recovered its footing, the Dow Jones hit a new all-time high, and SpaceX became one of the world's largest publicly traded companies in a sing…
Friday, June 12, 2026
On the evening of June 11, President Trump canceled planned US military strikes and announced a ceasefire framework with Iran — a single presidential decision that erased the structural Hormuz-closure…
Thursday, June 11, 2026
Three structural facts rewired the overnight tape: Iran formally declared the Strait of Hormuz closed to all commercial shipping under military enforcement — an explicit escalation from weeks of pract…
Wednesday, June 10, 2026
The session's entire directional fate hangs on one number printing at 8:30 AM ET — May CPI at consensus 4.2% YoY, the highest since April 2023 — against an overnight tape where US-Iran kinetic escalat…
Tuesday, June 9, 2026
The two-session chip bounce continues — Polymarket gives 89% odds of a higher open, ES is +0.35% and NQ +0.70% — but Tuesday arrives with three complications Monday didn't have: NFIB small business op…
Monday, June 8, 2026
The weekend Iran-Israel missile exchange — Iran's first direct barrage at Israel since the April 8 ceasefire, answered by Israeli airstrikes on Iranian petrochemical facilities and US CENTCOM strikes …
Sunday, June 7, 2026
The week that ended Friday June 6 was defined by two earthquakes of opposite sign: May's nonfarm payrolls printed 172,000 — more than double the 85,000 consensus and one of the largest monthly beats o…
Friday, June 5, 2026
May nonfarm payrolls printed +251K — three times the ~85K consensus and nearly double the ADP 122K print — transforming Chair Warsh's June 16–17 FOMC debut from a data-neutral hold into a hawkish one,…
Wednesday, June 3, 2026
Iran's overnight ballistic missile attacks targeting Kuwait and Bahrain — intercepted but immediately triggering US CENTCOM retaliatory airstrikes on Qeshm Island in the Persian Gulf — mark the most d…
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Two overnight prints confirm the AI infrastructure cycle has entered a phase where execution matters more than narrative: HPE's Q2 FY2026 delivered EPS $0.79 vs. $0.53 estimated (+49% beat) and revenu…
Monday, June 1, 2026
SoftBank's €45 billion (~$52B) first-phase AI infrastructure commitment to France — driving Tokyo shares +14% — cements June's opening thesis that the AI capex supercycle is now global, not just Ameri…