VIX stays muted even as single-stock options volumes set another record
Index vol is asleep. Single names are a casino with better compliance.
Senior Markets Correspondent
Financial candlestick chart on a trading screen
Market makers said the split is structural: passive equity dampens the index, while retail and hedge-fund overlays keep individual names noisy enough to pay the rent.
Elena Vasquez
Senior Markets Correspondent
Covers Treasuries, the dollar, and the policy signals that reprice risk assets.
