$VIX
1 long-form article and 188 pre-market mentions covering $VIX from AskMelon Research.
Saturday, October 24, 2026
The week of October 19–23, 2026 opened on the 39th anniversary of the 1987 Black Monday crash — with the VIX above 22 and social media declaring the AI-semiconductor-CoreWeave complex the nearest anal…
Saturday, October 24, 2026
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Saturday, October 24, 2026
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Saturday, October 24, 2026
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Saturday, October 24, 2026
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Friday, October 23, 2026
Two consecutive sessions of broad "sell-the-guidance" rot — NFLX, META, IBM, TSLA, LRCX — have left the S&P at 7,663 (worst close since July) and the VIX at 19; Friday opens with Houthi attacks expand…
Thursday, October 22, 2026
For the third consecutive mega-cap print, the market sold the guidance and ignored the beat — META's $7.40 adj EPS (vs $6.53E) and TSLA's $0.48 EPS beat are both trading lower pre-market, while Iran's…
Monday, October 19, 2026
It is the 39th anniversary of Black Monday 1987, "crash" is trending on social media, and yet futures point to a higher open — because the week that just ended (S&P −1.95%, Nasdaq −4.48%, the Philadel…
Sunday, October 18, 2026
The week of October 13–17 began as a controlled CPI calibration exercise and ended as a three-shock sequence no scenario fully captured: the hot CPI core (+0.33% MoM versus 0.2% expected) arrived Wedn…
Saturday, October 17, 2026
The week of October 13–16, 2026 opened on a four-day schedule — Columbus Day on Monday October 12 closed Treasury markets and reduced the equity trading week to Tuesday through Friday — but compressed…
Saturday, October 17, 2026
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Saturday, October 17, 2026
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Saturday, October 17, 2026
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Saturday, October 17, 2026
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Saturday, October 17, 2026
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Saturday, October 17, 2026
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Saturday, October 17, 2026
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Friday, October 16, 2026
Thursday's PPI delivered the largest monthly producer-price shock since March 2022 (+1.3% vs +0.6% consensus), yet the S&P closed +0.33% at 7,744.06 because markets correctly read the data mix — suppl…
Thursday, October 15, 2026
Wednesday's hot CPI (3.7% headline beat consensus of 3.6%, but core MoM +0.33% versus the 0.2% expected — the real shock) delivered the S&P's worst session since late July (−1.11% to 7,718.94), a KOSP…
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
The session that resolves two weeks of CPI anxiety finally arrives: Sep CPI at 8:30 AM ET is the last inflation print before the Oct 27–28 FOMC, and an overnight Houthi missile strike on Aramco's Dhah…
Monday, October 12, 2026
Columbus Day opens the most consequential earnings week of Q3 season — JPM, WFC, GS, and C report tomorrow BMO in the single largest bank-earnings day since Q2, while Sep CPI lands Wednesday with cons…
Sunday, October 11, 2026
The week of October 5–9 delivered a net S&P 500 gain of +1.15% (7,722.72 → 7,811.54) shaped by two countervailing forces: the Wednesday FOMC minutes confirmed "most participants" see another rate hike…
Saturday, October 10, 2026
The week of October 5–10, 2026 opened on Monday with ISM Services PMI for September printing at 54.9% — the twenty-seventh consecutive month in expansion territory — but with a Prices Paid subindex at…
Saturday, October 10, 2026
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Saturday, October 10, 2026
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Saturday, October 10, 2026
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Saturday, October 10, 2026
Score: 16 Verified / 11 Wrong / 1 Unverified
Wednesday, October 7, 2026
Tuesday's perfect 9-for-9 on verified calls — gold at $4,168.33 to within one tick of the upper bound, MRVL +5.81% on its historic FY31 $70–90B Investor Day guidance, and the S&P printing a fresh reco…
Tuesday, October 6, 2026
The framework went 8-for-10 on Monday — and walks into Tuesday with the 10-year Treasury at 5.30% (cycle high close), the 30-year at 5.66% (a 24-year high), and bond volatility (MOVE 113.61) spiking e…
Monday, October 5, 2026
Friday's September payrolls report printed +29K — the most extreme labor miss of the year, below even BofA's already-bearish ~60K floor, with wages decelerating to +0.1% M/M — and yet the 10-year Trea…
Sunday, October 4, 2026
The week of September 28 – October 2 ended with the most consequential labor data shock of the cycle: September nonfarm payrolls printed +29,000 against an 84–90K consensus — a significant miss — with…
Saturday, October 3, 2026
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Saturday, October 3, 2026
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Friday, October 2, 2026
NFP Day arrives with the session fully pre-positioned for relief: Fed Vice Chair Jefferson slashed October hike odds from ~70% to ~30% with "may need more time" language, Accenture recorded the larges…
Thursday, October 1, 2026
Q4 opens with a validated AI-infrastructure thesis after Micron's Q4 FY2026 blowout — $33.42 EPS, $54.23B revenue, Q1 FY2027 guided at $61.5B — but the week's defining constraint is the 10Y Treasury y…
Wednesday, September 30, 2026
Q3 closes today under the heaviest single-morning data density of the quarter: Core PCE, ADP private payrolls, and the GDP Q2 final estimate all land at 8:15–8:30 AM ET — with Tuesday's Consumer Confi…
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
The Hormuz binary shifts from acute shock to structural slow-burn: Iranian officials have privately conceded that no deal is reachable before November's midterms, WTI settled Monday at $92.60 after sp…
Monday, September 28, 2026
The final week of Q3 opens with the Hormuz binary fully reactivated: Trump formally rejected Tehran's conditional reopening proposal overnight — Brent cleared $107 and WTI is back above $94, erasing F…
Sunday, September 27, 2026
The week of September 21–25 was organized around two binaries that both resolved closer to the benign end than the bearish: the Trump–Xi Washington summit ended with a two-month trade truce extension …
Friday, September 25, 2026
Costco's Q4 blowout ($6.75 EPS, comps +9.4%, revenue +11.1%) collides with the year's most mechanically complex session: a $7 trillion triple-witching expiry — the second-largest in history — on the f…
Thursday, September 24, 2026
Wednesday's Flash PMI composite printed 58.4 — more than three standard deviations above the ~55.2 consensus and the hottest trifecta (Manufacturing 57.0, Services 58.7) in over five years — detonatin…
Wednesday, September 23, 2026
Oil cracked through $91 on Tuesday as Trump's "very good" pre-summit Iran diplomacy and Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline restart attempt erased the warflation premium that had anchored WTI above $95 …
Tuesday, September 22, 2026
Brent crude crossed back above $100 to $101.70 per barrel as US Treasury Secretary Bessent ordered all Iranian airlines shut worldwide effective September 23 — partly reversing the warflation-relief n…
Monday, September 21, 2026
WTI crude breaks below $100 for the first time since approximately September 9–10 — reversing the ~10-day pipeline-attack premium from the East-West Pipeline attack (Sep 11) — as Saudi East-West pipel…
Sunday, September 20, 2026
The week of September 14–18 resolved the quarter's most concentrated policy sequence — FOMC +25bp (unanimous 12–0, hawkish dot at 4.10% median terminal, 16/18 officials projecting at least one more hi…
Friday, September 18, 2026
Three simultaneous repricing events land on Quadruple Witching day: the Bank of Japan confirmed its most hawkish hike since 1995 overnight, the Saudi East-West pipeline partial restoration cracked the…
Thursday, September 17, 2026
The Fed's hawkish dot plot — 4.10% median terminal rate, 16 of 18 officials projecting at least one more hike — landed harder than the +25 bps hike itself, and Thursday's session opens with the dollar…
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
FOMC Decision Day arrives with the September +25 bps hike locked in at 89–92% probability — the most anticipated non-surprise in recent Fed history — as the triple chokepoint enters its sixth day with…