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VIX Term Structure Inverts Amid French Election Uncertainty

VIX Term Structure Inverts Amid French Election Uncertainty

Following weeks of utter comaplcency, there are signs that investors are beginning to hedge for potential U.S. stock swings around France’s presidential ballot.

As Bloomberg writes, futures on the CBOE Volatility Index
expiring in the next month are now trading around the same level as
contracts maturing a month later
.

In fact the VIX term structure briefly inverted on Monday...

RBC On Today's "Remarkable" Market Move: "Suddenly Treasuries Can Not Sell Off"

RBC On Today's "Remarkable" Market Move: "Suddenly Treasuries Can Not Sell Off"

With stocks blasting off the moment today's stellar ADP report hit (even if subsequent PMI and ISM soft data roundly refuted the highest surge in private payrolls in over two years), pushed higher by the momentum ignition in USDJPY, some traders have declared today the day the reflation trade has (again) come back.

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