What if investors are wrong about the causes of volatility?

The bitter truth about volatility

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In the good old days, volatility indices were the preserve of anonymous trader types. But measures of volatility have become rather more infamous in recent years.

Robert Harris featured them in his novel The Fear Index and ever since then, media mavens such as myself have felt obliged to keep a watchful eye on the numbers, mostly as a way of reading the rune...

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