{"id":38593,"date":"2025-08-01T23:15:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T23:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/38593\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T23:15:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T23:15:19","slug":"the-markets-fear-gauge-finally-woke-up-its-still-at-normal-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/38593\/","title":{"rendered":"The Market\u2019s Fear Gauge Finally Woke Up. It\u2019s Still at Normal Levels."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"e141zjhk0 emotion-198zn8y-FormattedText\">The latest tariff and jobs headlines sent the stock market\u2019s fear gauge out of its midsummer lull.<\/p>\n<p class=\"e141zjhk0 emotion-198zn8y-FormattedText\">The VIX was up about 3 points to 19.75 on Friday, spiking as high as 21.69, which is its highest level since June 23.<\/p>\n<p class=\"e141zjhk0 emotion-198zn8y-FormattedText\">While a reading around 20 is viewed as normal volatility in the market, the VIX has been subdued for much of July as markets cruised to multiple record closing highs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest tariff and jobs headlines sent the stock market\u2019s fear gauge out of its midsummer lull. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[64,63,99,171],"class_list":{"0":"post-38593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-markets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}