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A Goldilocks Market for Short-Term Traders

The VIX is very near Goldilocks territory.
If that statement sounds cryptic, it’s not. In fact, it’s very straightforward. It’s also a very good thing for investors, and short-term traders in particular.
The VIX is the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index. It measures market volatility by looking at put and call options on the broad market of S&P 500 stocks.
If the VIX is high, the market will see big swings, either up or down. That was the case in mid-March, when the VIX peaked above 80. On March 16, the S&P 500 fell nearly 12%, the third-biggest daily loss since 1926. …read more […]

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Amazon.com asks for federal law against price gouging during national emergencies

Online retailer Amazon.com , criticized for not acting quickly enough to curb sellers who charged hundreds of dollars for high-demand hand sanitizer during the early phase of the new coronavirus pandemic, urged Congress on Wednesday to pass a law against price gouging during times of national emergency.

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Bernie Sanders, Ilhan Omar Lead Call for World Bank, IMF Debt Cancellation

(Bloomberg) — Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Ilhan Omar led a group of lawmakers from two dozen countries calling for the International Monetary Fund and World Bank to forgive the debt of the world’s poorest countries and step up their support.The debt payment standstill announced last month by the Group of 20 won’t be enough to allow the countries to deal with the crisis, the lawmakers, including the U.K.’s Jeremy Corbyn, said in a letter Wednesday. Fitch Ratings last month warned that multilateral development banks could see their credit ratings suffer if they let the poorest nations suspend sovereign debt …read more […]

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Airbus examining restructuring including redundancies – sources

Airbus is drawing up plans for restructuring involving “deep” job cuts, but has not taken a final decision, industry sources said. If the move is confirmed, the European planemaker is expected to brief unions on the proposals around the end of the month and is meanwhile drawing up contingency plans for a prolonged crisis after furloughing thousands of workers. Chief Executive Guillaume Faury is expected to update managers this week after warning staff last month that the firm’s survival was at stake due to a slump in demand. …read more […]

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SBA Backs Off Legal Threat Against Firms That Didn’t Need Loans

(Bloomberg) — The Trump administration said firms that took loans that they didn’t need from a small business aid program will be allowed to repay the money without legal consequences, reversing an earlier threat that the government could pursue them criminally.New guidance issued Wednesday for the Paycheck Protection Program by the Small Business Administration and the Treasury Department also said that companies that took loans of less than $2 million will automatically be determined to have done so in good faith because they’re less likely to have access to other resources.The SBA will review all loans above $2 million to …read more […]

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Oil Shrugs Off First Decline in U.S. Inventories Since January

(Bloomberg) — Oil fell despite the first U.S. stockpile decline since January.Futures in New York were down 1.4% after the Energy Information Administration said crude inventories fell by 745,000 barrels indicating that producers recently shutting in production hasn’t been enough to lift the market. The agency reported the lowest crude input by U.S. refineries since 2008 suggesting that demand recovery will take more time.“There still is downside risk in the near term due to the demand side as the normalization of the economy could well be quite choppy and uneven throughout America,” Bart Melek, head of commodity strategy at Toronto …read more […]