{"id":56539,"date":"2017-02-10T08:07:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T13:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=56539"},"modified":"2017-02-10T08:07:16","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T13:07:16","slug":"hedging-demand-perks-up-even-as-volatility-craters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2017\/hedging-demand-perks-up-even-as-volatility-craters.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedging Demand Perks up Even as Volatility Craters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Soaring U.S. share prices and plunging market volatility measures may paint a picture of optimism, but there are signs in the equity options market that investors have started to question how long this goldilocks period can last. The post-election share rally has quieted the CBOE Volatility Index .VIX, the most the widely followed barometer of expected near-term stock market gyrations. Its record lows highlight anemic hedging demand at the broad index level.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-options-volatility-idUSKBN15O2N4\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Soaring U.S. share prices and plunging market volatility measures may paint a picture of optimism, but there are signs in the equity options market that investors have started to question how long this goldilocks period can last. The post-election [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56540,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56539\/revisions\/56540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}