Fastest Correction Ever? | VIX Index Collapse Post Spike| Will Fed Push Back on 50 bps Interest Rate Cut? | Latest CPI Inflation Analysis and Soft, Hard, or No Landing?

Derek Moore and Jay Pestrichelli are back to discuss the surge and record collapse back below 17.6 in the VIX Index. Plus, Reviewing the difference between the VIX Index (not tradable) and VIX Futures relative spike levels. Then, they go into the latest CPI numbers including CPI Supercore to see what is sticky and what is negative. Finally, they discuss whether Chairman Jerome Powel is going to disappoint markets with only a 25-bps cut when everyone seems to want more. All that and more including the yield curve inversion, mentions of job cuts vs AI on earnings calls in Q2, expectations for a soft, hard, or no landing and what the heck that even means.

VIX only takes 7 days to go back below 17.6 after spiking above 35

Comparing previous VIX Index surges and length to come back down

Difference between hard , soft, and no landings

Fed prepares for Jackson Hole meetings and sure to signal its interest rate intentions

Will Powell and the Fed disappoint markets?

Chance that Powel pushes back to not be bullied into rate cuts

Mentions of AI on corporate earnings calls vs mentions of job cuts and employment

Inverted yield curve and what the 2-year bond is predicting for rates in the future

Fed balance sheet below the radar

Will Fed stop letting treasury bonds and mortgage backed bonds run off the balance sheet?

Comparing current and past VIX spikes against the relative spike level of the VIX futures

Mentioned in this Episode

Panic Overdone? | VIX 3rd Highest Spike Ever | How the Strategies Held Up | Short Volatility Trades

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