How major US stock market indexes fared on Friday

View photos Stocks usually go up, but the path is never simple. On Thursday, the S&P 500 was trading at around 2,360. In 2016, the S&P 500 rose 9.5%. View photos The last couple years in the stock market have not been a smooth ride. Only once in the last 89 years has the S&P 500 not dropped at least 4.4% from an interim peak, and in 2016 there were four of these occurrences.


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The Fed is worried about a key measure in the stock market

That uncertainty doesn't seem to be showing up in the stock market, however. He said the reason why the Fed is worried about the VIX is so low, is because they don't want to see a dramatic spike up. The Chicago Board Options Exchange volatility index, which gauges investor anxiety (technically, implied expectations for volatility in the stock market) and is widely known as the VIX index, has been trending down. What is implied volatility, and why is it so low? There are technical reasons for the low levels of implied volatility, too.




The Russell 2000 is up 37.39 points, or 2.8 percent. The Russell 2000 fell 5.34 points, or 0.4 percent. The Russell 2000 index of smaller-company stocks inched down 0.1 point to 1,394.52. The S&P 500 picked up 16.18 points, or 0.7 percent. The S&P 500 is up 128.51 points, or 5.7 percent.


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