{"id":62181,"date":"2018-02-07T01:59:55","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T06:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=62181"},"modified":"2018-02-09T00:25:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T05:25:31","slug":"volatility-spike-boosts-us-options-hedging-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2018\/volatility-spike-boosts-us-options-hedging-activity.html","title":{"rendered":"Volatility Spike Boosts US Options Hedging Activity"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Reuters) Wall Street\u2019s \u201cfear gauge\u201d notched its biggest one-day jump on Monday in over two years, as U.S. stocks slumped and investors took to the options market in search of protection against a further slide in equities prices.
\nStocks slid in highly volatile trading on Monday, with the benchmark S&P 500 index and the Dow Jones Industrials suffering their biggest respective percentage drops since August 2011 as a long-awaited pullback from record highs deepened. For the Dow, the fall at one point of nearly 1,600 points was the biggest intraday point loss in Wall Street history.<\/p>\n

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(Reuters) Wall Street\u2019s \u201cfear gauge\u201d notched its biggest one-day jump on Monday in over two years, as U.S. stocks slumped and investors took to the options market in search of protection against a further slide in equities prices. Stocks slid […]<\/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-62181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62181","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=62181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62182,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62181\/revisions\/62182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}