iPath Series B S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures ETN (VXX)

October 13, 2025 – In an increasingly volatile global landscape, marked by renewed U.S.-China trade hostilities and persistent fiscal anxieties, investors are strategically deploying Volatility Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) as a critical hedging mechanism. The current market sentiment, while cautious, reflects a calculated effort by financial participants to safeguard

Volatility ETFs UVIX, UVXY, VXX, and VIXY rank among 2025's worst performers as calm markets and futures roll costs weigh heavily on returns.

Investors focus on strategic stock picks amid market volatility. Traders make calculated decisions during earnings season. Freeport-McMoRan and American Express named top choices.

Middle East conflict boosts demand for 'crisis alpha' ETFs in defense, energy, inflation, and cybersecurity sectors, as investors fear market volatility.

Volatility-linked ETFs like VIXY, VXX, and UVXY are gaining appeal as the VIX drops, but could offer big gains if fear returns. Risky but enticing.

VIX, or the CBOE Volatility Index, is fluctuating around 30, a level that indicates moderately high market stress.

Trump's tariffs sparked global market mayhem, with S&P 500 dropping 10.5% in 2 days. Volatility-based ETFs like VIXY, VXX, MUD, QDWN, AIBD surged.

In this video, we break down the Volatility Index—a.k.a. the VIX, also known as the market’s fear gauge—and what it signals for traders and investors.

Investor sentiment was shocked by Trump's 25% tariff on auto imports, increasing inflation fears. But some ETFs performed well, with gains up to 22.8%.

VIX ETFs are popular tools for hedging or speculating on volatility, tracking VIX futures. VIXY, VIXM, VXX, VXZ for short-term plays, SVIX for inverse volatility, UVXY for aggressive traders. Today's drop means gains for SVIX and declines for VXX, VIXY, and UVXY.

The CBOE VIX, which reflects investors' consensus view of future (30-day) expected stock market volatility, surged nearly 18% on Monday to hit 22.74 as of 2:00 p.m. ET, its highest level since August 2024.

Wall Street sees steepest weekly drop in months due to trade uncertainty and Fed's cautious stance on rate cuts. A few ETFs emerged as top performers with leveraged strategies and sector-specific trends.

Markets in turmoil as trade war fears reignite, S&P 500 loses $1.5 trillion. Use VIX to hedge, consider low-volatility ETFs, and follow trends.

The brief ruckus around inflation forcing the Federal Reserve to pause earlier this week just didn’t last. Meanwhile, the utilities came rushing back. In such an environment, the Utilities Select Sector SPDR ETF XLU may look appealing.

Trump's second term could bring even more policy shifts, such as trade wars, deregulation, and expansionist ambitions, causing market uncertainty.

A Georgia-based brokerage has settled allegations that it and its president developed and sold a trading strategy that they did not understand.

Whether it's small-cap stocks or large-caps, "these months tend to be seasonally volatile," BlackRock's Gargi Pal Chaudhuri says.

January 2024 CPI report surpasses expectations, shaking markets despite overall inflation decline.

We got to an 11-handle on the VIX, yes, but it seems volatility has been pounded to death and, for reasons I can’t quite fathom, is pushing back.

Wall Street has witnessed an impressive surge in November. Against this backdrop, this article highlights a few winning & losing ETFs of November.

We performed a screening of mid-cap ETFs - defined as having Assets Under Management (AUM) between $400 million and $2 billion - to determine what funds had the largest change in net assets on the week, according to data from etfdb.com. Only non-leveraged funds were considered. 

Market volatility, simply put, is how much and how quickly prices change. The larger and quicker, the more volatile the market. Market volatility is measured by finding the standard deviation from mean prices over a given period of time, or more commonly, the expected deviation in the future. And this, it turns out, is a great way to gauge the sentiment of investors in a market.

We performed a screening of Small-Cap ETFs, defined as having Assets Under Management (AUM) between $400 million and $2 billion - to determine what funds had the largest positive and negative returns on the week, according to data from etfdb.com. Only non-leveraged funds were considered.