{"id":111400,"date":"2025-08-01T22:35:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T22:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/111400\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T22:35:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T22:35:24","slug":"the-markets-fear-gauge-finally-woke-up-its-still-at-normal-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/111400\/","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":3,"featured_media":111401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[64,135,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-111400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-markets","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114955901815064137","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}